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Native American Activist Leonard Peltier Asks Obama for Clemency
The 71-year-old AIM member, who many believe has been unfairly jailed for more than 40 years, petitioned the president for a pardon in March. In 1977, Native American activist Leonard Peltier was put behind bars, where he has remained in federal custody for 40 years,...EXCLUSIVE: Native American activist imprisoned 40 years for FBI agent deaths still fights for clemency from President Obama: ‘I am prepared to die here’
…Peltier insists he didn’t fire the fatal shots that put him behind bars — the shots that felled FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams during a June 26, 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. “I was at Pine Ridge that day. I did...