It saddens me it took this long, but Leonard Peltier is finally free!
Leonard Peltier is Coming Home!
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/20/leonard-peltier-is-coming-home/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/20/leonard-peltier-is-coming-home/
It saddens me it took this long, but Leonard Peltier is finally free!
8 Comments
catloaf@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 1y
Who? What is he being granted clemency for? The article doesn't give any background.
rockSlayer@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
He's one of the longest held political prisoners in the US, arrested officially for killing 2 feds that shot at a truck he was in. There's a good chance he wasn't even there based on alibis, and evidence since his trial have been recanted and invalidated but the sentencing was never overturned. His real crime was being a leader of AIM
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Peltier
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat · 12 pts · 1y
It's a damn crime that this doesn't have 200 upvotes by now.
Fuckin' sing, man. It's a good thing.
xmunk@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1y
I genuinely think most people are unfamiliar with AIM and the absolutely disastrous raid. But I'm right with you in celebrating his freedom.
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat · 5 pts · 1y
Yeah. I'm not even joking, seeing this was the happiest I've been all day.
SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y
The guys who made MODOK? They deserve to rot in SHIELD jail
xmunk@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y
I missed this among the others and it's extremely overdo but I'm glad he's finally getting some relief.