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After nearly five decades behind bars, Leonard Peltier is out, thanks to Joe Biden commuting his sentence.
The 80-year-old Indian activist was convicted of killing two FBI agents in 1975, a charge he’s long denied.
His release has reignited a long-standing debate: was he a political prisoner or a convicted killer?
Supporters see justice delayed, while law enforcement calls it a betrayal.
So why did Biden release this guy?
And more importantly, did he have the AUTHORITY to do so?
I think we know the answer to that.
Won’t be long before we see a reversal of all of Biden’s doings.
Hope Peltier enjoys his free time out. I have a feeling it might be short lived.
BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier is released from prison after nearly 50 years.
For decades, Peltier, who is 80 years old, has maintained his innocence over the 1975 killing of two FBI agents in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
Last month… pic.twitter.com/tOAz95y7VC
— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) February 18, 2025
AP News reports:
Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released from a Florida prison on Tuesday, weeks after then-President Joe Biden angered law enforcement officials by commuting his life sentence to home confinement in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.
Peltier, 80, left Coleman penitentiary in an SUV, according to a prison official. He didn’t stop to speak with reporters or the roughly two dozen supporters who gathered outside the gates to celebrate his release.
Peltier, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians in North Dakota, was headed back to his reservation, where family and friends will celebrate his release with him on Wednesday and where the tribe arranged a house for him to live in while serving his home confinement.
Throughout his nearly half-century in prison, Peltier has maintained that he didn’t murder FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams during a confrontation that day on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Native Americans widely believe he was a political prisoner who was wrongly convicted because he fought for tribal rights as a member of the American Indian Movement.
“He represents every person who’s been roughed up by a cop, profiled, had their children harassed at school,” said Nick Estes, a professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota and a member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe who advocated for Peltier’s release.
It’s a curious tale.
If he was truly innocent, I find it odd that Biden would do this. That’s not his m.o.
If he was guilty, the victims were the FBI and they don’t seem to be for the American public.
Whatever the case, I’m sure truth will out.
Leonard Peltier is FREE!
Landed in North Dakota. Headed home to the Turtle Mountain Rez.pic.twitter.com/AKdaVlvLsy
— WambliK (@WambliKuza7777) February 18, 2025
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