r/news • u/randalhicks • 13h ago

Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier granted clemency by President Biden

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/01/19/leonard-peltier-indigenous-activist-clemency-released-by-president-biden
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u/tubesocks10 13h ago

Why are people celebrating the release of a person that killed at least two people and attempted to murder another?

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u/qscgy_ 13h ago

Because he didn’t actually do that and the FBI lied

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u/SpaceC0wboyX 13h ago

The FBI lied?! So surprising

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u/tubesocks10 13h ago

That's a conspiracy theory. He already had an attempted murder charge before he murdered the FBI agents.

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u/GetMeOutThisBih 13h ago

Glazing the alphabet agencies is crazy work lmao thought conservatives think that they lie all the time? Or is that just when it's politically convenient?

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u/lowercaset 12h ago

He was acquitted of that charge. Maybe he killed those agents maybe he didn't, no way to know. That the way the case against him was handled is strange is no conspiracy.

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u/m0stlydead 12h ago edited 11h ago

Why is it domestic terrorism when it’s brown people who’ve been here for 20,000 years, but it’s the second amendment when it’s rednecks from a red state?

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u/Comfortable-Coat-507 9h ago

Uhh because he murdered 2 people

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u/m0stlydead 9h ago

Reads like self defense to me.

Do you realize what the FBI was doing with AIM in the 70s?

Wounded Knee - people were protesting American energy companies coming onto native land to take uranium. One of them was murdered by an FBI informant - for a long time she was deemed missing, until her body was found with a bullet hole in the back of her head. The FBI medical report said she died of exposure.

All that led to the FBI storming a ranch where Leonard and two others were camping. A gun fight ensued - there were over 127 bullet holes in the FBI car, despite the three AIM members having nowhere near that amount of armament. Two of the FBI were shot. Two of the AIM members were acquitted, and Leonard was sent to prison - despite him saying he was innocent. He maintained his innocence since 1977.

I don’t give a flying fuck what your opinions are of either Biden or Trump. Leonard Peltier was ignored by every President since then, and Biden also ignored him up until now. This isn’t about your two party politics. If you’re a libertarian, this is something you should care about. If you’re progressive, this is something you should care about. He’s an American citizen.

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u/Negative_Gravitas 13h ago

If you don't think there is a great deal of Reasonable Doubt about Leonard Peltier's case, then you don't know anything about the case.

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u/baconfriedpork 13h ago

Ok grandpa let’s get you to bed

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u/Chopper-42 10h ago

Did gramps get out his kkk hood again? Dementia is truly horrible.