Indigenous rights activist Leonard Peltier has been locked up in federal
maximum security prison since 1975. Peltier, now 78 years old, is the
longest serving political prisoner in U.S. history.
Peltier was convicted of the 1975 murders of two FBI agents in a shoutout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. This shootout was the culmination of a targeted harassment campaign against the American Indian Movement and folks of the Pine Ridge Reservation after their occupation of Wounded Knee and refusal to be violently forced off their land.
Leonard Peltier, an AIM activist, took the fall for the deaths of the FBI agents, despite the lack of any physical evidence connecting him to those deaths. In fact, there is documentation that the FBI intimidated witnesses into false statements and withheld key bullet ballistics evidence that would have exonerated Peltier.
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Now, a former FBI agent familiar with the case has come forward urging President Biden to release Leonard Peltier. This agent has concluded that the arrest, trial, and conviction are a revenge-fueled FBI vendetta for the death of their "family" and Peltier must be released.
Even a former federal prosecutor in the case has written to President Biden asking for clemency, saying : “the prosecution and continued incarceration of Mr. Peltier was and is unjust. We were not able to prove that Mr. Peltier personally committed any offense on the Pine Ridge Reservation.”
Leonard Peltier's conviction was a complete miscarriage of justice, and his continued incarceration is cruel punishment from a government that refuses to admit its wrongdoing.
What's worse is that the COVID pandemic has worsened Peltier's health issues which already included diabetes and kidney disease. Peltier lost some of his best years to this vendetta. He should be able to live out his remaining years in freedom on his ancestral homelands.
Sign the petition: President Biden, it's time to bring Leonard Peltier home.
SIGN THE PETITION
Keep fighting,
Peltier was convicted of the 1975 murders of two FBI agents in a shoutout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. This shootout was the culmination of a targeted harassment campaign against the American Indian Movement and folks of the Pine Ridge Reservation after their occupation of Wounded Knee and refusal to be violently forced off their land.
Leonard Peltier, an AIM activist, took the fall for the deaths of the FBI agents, despite the lack of any physical evidence connecting him to those deaths. In fact, there is documentation that the FBI intimidated witnesses into false statements and withheld key bullet ballistics evidence that would have exonerated Peltier.
Sign the petition to President Biden: Free Leonard Peltier.
Now, a former FBI agent familiar with the case has come forward urging President Biden to release Leonard Peltier. This agent has concluded that the arrest, trial, and conviction are a revenge-fueled FBI vendetta for the death of their "family" and Peltier must be released.
Even a former federal prosecutor in the case has written to President Biden asking for clemency, saying : “the prosecution and continued incarceration of Mr. Peltier was and is unjust. We were not able to prove that Mr. Peltier personally committed any offense on the Pine Ridge Reservation.”
Leonard Peltier's conviction was a complete miscarriage of justice, and his continued incarceration is cruel punishment from a government that refuses to admit its wrongdoing.
What's worse is that the COVID pandemic has worsened Peltier's health issues which already included diabetes and kidney disease. Peltier lost some of his best years to this vendetta. He should be able to live out his remaining years in freedom on his ancestral homelands.
Sign the petition: President Biden, it's time to bring Leonard Peltier home.
Keep fighting,
Irna Landrum, Daily Kos.
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