'I Am Finally Free!': Leonard Peltier Released From Prison After Nearly 50 Years
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Joe Biden granted clemency to the Native American rights activist literally minutes before his presidency ended.
WASHINGTON — Native American rights activist Leonard Peltier was released from prison on Tuesday morning, ending his nearly 50 years of incarceration after the U.S. government lied, threatened people and hid evidence to put him behind bars.
“Today I am finally free! They may have imprisoned me but they never took my spirit!” Peltier said in a statement. “Thank you to all my supporters throughout the world who fought for my freedom. I am finally going home. I look forward to seeing my friends, my family, and my community. It’s a good day today.”
NDN Collective, an Indigenous rights group that has been leading Peltier’s legal effort, shared photos of Peltier moments after leaving prison, outside in the sun.
Peltier, 80, had been in prison ever since the federal government accused him of murdering two FBI agents in a 1975 shoot-out on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
There was never evidence that he committed a crime, and federal law enforcement officials later admitted they never did figure out who shot those agents. But the FBI needed someone to take the fall after losing two of its agents, and all of Peltier’s co-defendants were acquitted based on self-defense. So, Peltier became their guy.
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