FBI Director nominee Kash Patel decried Biden’s inexcusable act of callous imperiousness, “Biden has repeatedly failed to support the men and women of law enforcement, and this disgraceful action is the final insult to their service and sacrifice…Leonard Peltier is the epitome of evil and should have died in prison for his heinous crimes."
President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the sentence of Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist convicted of killing two FBI agents nearly 50 years ago in South Dakota. Biden’s order as he leaves office is to take effect Feb.
Left-wing activist and convicted double murderer Leonard Peltier will go free from prison thanks to a last-minute commutation from former President Biden.
Just before leaving office Monday, President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of Leonard Peltier, who was serving life in prison for the killings of two FBI agents in 1975 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
According to the FBI, in 1975, agents Ron Williams and Jack Coler were attempting to arrest a robbery suspect on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The agents pursued a vehicle, with Peltier among the people inside. A fatal shootout ensued ...
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Demonstrators were calling for the release of Peltier, who was convicted at a trial in Fargo for the deaths of FBI agents in South ... Dakota. She had yet to communicate with her brother as of Monday morning. According to the FBI, in 1975, agents Ron ...
The commutation will allow Peltier, who has long maintained his innocence in the killing of two FBI agents, to spend his remaining days in home confinement.
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The 11th hour clemency of Leonard Peltier has touched off a wave of joy, but it also brings pain to those who believe he should remain in prison for murder.
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Former Bay Area Reporter photographer Ron Williams, a gay man whose photo of an empress riding an elephant in the 1975 Pride parade became one of the LGBTQ newspaper's most iconic front-page images, died January 10 in Rancho Mirage, California. He was 81.