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(19,040 posts) Mon Jan 20, 2025, 11:58 AM Jan 20

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Joe Biden Grants Clemency To Leonard Peltier [View all]

Source: Huffington Post

WASHINGTON ― With literally minutes left in his presidency, Joe Biden on Monday granted clemency to Leonard Peltier, the ailing Native American rights activist whom the U.S. government put in prison nearly 50 years ago after a trial riddled with misconduct and lies.

Peltier has been in prison ever since the federal government accused him of murdering two FBI agents in a 1975 shoot-out on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

There was never evidence that Peltier committed a crime, and the U.S. government never did figure out who shot those agents. But federal officials needed someone to take the fall. The FBI had just lost two agents, and Peltier's co-defendants were all acquitted based on self-defense. So, Peltier became their guy.

His trial was rife with misconduct. The FBI threatened and coerced witnesses into lying. Federal prosecutors hid evidence that exonerated Peltier. A juror acknowledged on the second day of the trial that she had "prejudice against Indians," but she was kept on anyway.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-leonard-peltier-clemency_n_67608b04e4b0d06419ec6367

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Joe Biden Grants Clemency To Leonard Peltier [View all] Polybius Jan 20 OP

Finally mikeysnot Jan 20 #1

Everyone in my apartment building must have heard me scream 'YES" dflprincess Jan 20 #2

I joined in that scream rurallib Jan 20 #6

Good. Basso8vb Jan 20 #3

Best news today. cachukis Jan 20 #4

Ty, Joe! SheltieLover Jan 20 #5

It was a brilliant move to do it in the 11th hour. This will retard JohnSJ Jan 20 #7

So true. wnylib Jan 20 #9

Thank God that someone in this country had the wnylib Jan 20 #8

I had lost hope Ghost of Tom Joad Jan 20 #10

YES! YES! YES finally. usaf-vet Jan 20 #11

In this part of the country as the word of the Biden's clemency To Leonard Peltier I'm sure this will be heard alot..... usaf-vet Jan 20 #16

YES!!!! Shellback Squid Jan 20 #12

Wow! Lulu KC Jan 20 #13

Good for Peltier, but too bad it wasn't done 4 years ago MichMan Jan 20 #14

I can hardly believe it!! catchnrelease Jan 20 #15

Oh! ALL RIGHT! nt leftyladyfrommo Jan 20 #17

Oh that is a huge huge relief Easterncedar Jan 20 #18

I don't know if he'll accept. The Grand Illuminist Jan 20 #19

I thought their reasons were because they did not want life in prison Polybius Jan 20 #25

If accepted, they accept the guilt they are fighting against. The Grand Illuminist Jan 20 #37

Appeals don't apply in Peltier's case. He ran out of appeals long ago. wnylib Jan 20 #40

He has accepted it n/t Lulu KC Jan 20 #42

Good. Paladin Jan 20 #20

So this doesn't mean he pardoned him. Article says Biden commuted Peltier's life sentence to 50 Shades Of Blue Jan 20 #21

Forced to wear an ankle monitor? MichMan Jan 20 #26

The last article I read was that all he wanted was to Bitbit Jan 20 #28

Oh my heart, FM123 Jan 20 #22

I suspected he was waiting for the very last thing before he was out BumRushDaShow Jan 20 #23

K/R Dawson Leery Jan 20 #24

Overjoyed...after all these decades !! Sequoia Jan 20 #27

same Kali999 Jan 20 #35

The identity H2O Man Jan 20 #36

My ❤❤❤ soars like an eagle... ultralite001 Jan 20 #29

Fantastic Magoo48 Jan 20 #30

"" AllaN01Bear Jan 20 #31

K&R red dog 1 Jan 20 #32

One Drop Of Good News... GB_RN Jan 20 #33

"Clemency" forsooth. malthaussen Jan 20 #34

Great Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 20 #38

Justice. George McGovern Jan 20 #39

Post removed Post removed Jan 20 #41

He was not pardoned n/t Lulu KC Jan 20 #43

Correct my mistake, clemency is the word, either way he is not in prison anymore and the two FBI agents are still dead. endgenocide Jan 20 #44

"There was never evidence that Peltier committed a crime..." JoseBalow Jan 20 #45

Amen n/t Lulu KC Jan 20 #47

End genocide, huh? Lulu KC Jan 20 #46