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Feb 6, 2023 · Leonard Peltier, an Anishinaabe-Lakota Native American, was a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), which promotes Native American rights. On June 26, 1975, during a confrontation involving AIM members on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota, FBI agents Ronald Williams and Jack Coler were shot dead.
Jun 22, 2021 · At the time, the search for Leonard Peltier was called “the biggest manhunt in FBI history.”
Feb 6, 2023 · Leonard Peltier, who has been in prison for 48 years for a crime he maintains he did not commit, is stuck in clemency petition purgatory. Office of the Pardon Attorney. Peltier had some thoughts to share Monday on the 48th anniversary of his imprisonment. “Living in here, year after year, day after day, week after week, plays on your concepts ...
Leonard Peltier was arrested 38 years ago in connection with the murders of two FBI agents, Jack Coler and Ronald Williams, during a confrontation involving American Indian Movement (AIM) members on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota in June 1975. While he admits to having been present during the incident, Leonard Peltier, who in ...
Sep 12, 2023 · FILE - American Indian activist Leonard Peltier speaks during an interview at the U.S. Penitentiary, April 29, 1999, in Leavenworth, Kan. Hundreds of activists and Indigenous leaders rallied outside the White House on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, in support of Peltier on the imprisoned activist’s 79th birthday, holding signs and chanting slogans urging President Joe Biden to grant clemency to ...
Campaign: President Biden Should Free Leonard Peltier. Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist, has been imprisoned for nearly 50 years in the USA for a crime he maintains he did not commit. There are serious and ongoing concerns about the fairness of his trial and conviction. Tribal Nations, Nobel Peace Laureates, former FBI agents ...
Apr 20, 2022 · The FBI remains resolute against the commutation of Leonard Peltier’s sentence for murdering FBI Special Agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams at South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1975. We must never forget or put aside that Peltier intentionally and mercilessly murdered these two young men and has never expressed remorse for ...
