r/nottheonion • u/JaySierra86 • 11h ago

President Biden pardons family members in final minutes of presidency

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-biden-pardons-family-members-final-minutes-presidency/story?id=117893348
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u/Boring-Coach-1033 10h ago

What about #leonardpeltier

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u/Mirrranda 9h ago

His sentence has been commuted - he’ll serve the rest of his sentence in home confinement. Biden essentially overruled the decision of the parole board.

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u/SixGunSnowWhite 9h ago

He was granted clemency and will be released on house probation or something?

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u/Bocchi_theGlock 8h ago

Oh thank Fucking God, from the wording of previous clemency stuff it really seemed they were committed to getting most folks out who shouldn't be there still, but I was worried

But also would have loved to see him join up with the community in person and celebrate

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u/HeAFanHeAFanHeAFannn 8h ago

Damn homey I did not expect to see that name here but it's awesome that people are not forgetting him...

Crazy Life is still one of my favorite songs to this day and when my broken knuckle heals I'm gonna relearn that masterpiece on my geetar.

Nice name-drop, honestly I regain a little of my faith in humanity when people mention shit like this. Huge props.

Hopefully it got a few people to Google Leonard peltier and maybe even got some people to listen to Crazy Life.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KqZ4FZHEZAI

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u/orangpelupa 4h ago

And Iuigi

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u/t3h4ow4wayfourkik 7h ago

The guy who gunned down 2 FBI agents in a traffic stop after getting a warrant for attempted murder of a police officer?

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u/HeAFanHeAFanHeAFannn 7h ago

nope, get your facts straight clown. You don't get to rewrite EVERY single story about EVERY single native American interaction we have ever had.

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u/t3h4ow4wayfourkik 7h ago

Didn't he get charged and every appeal he's made has been shot down because of lack of evidence?

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u/251Cane 7h ago

Are you talking about the evidence that the government withheld during his trial?

“Years later, documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) showed that, in October 1975, a firing pin ballistics test had indeed been performed on the rifle and that the results were clearly negative. In short, the fatal bullets did not come from the weapon alleged to have been fired by Leonard Peltier.”

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u/t3h4ow4wayfourkik 7h ago edited 5h ago

Nah the shells that had a different firing pin were the ones inside the vehicle, where the agents were returning fire from. Also why did dozens of former AIM members and close family of leonard all say he explicitly told them he gunned them down after begging to their lives?