Indigenous Activist Leonard Peltier Will Likely Die in Prison After Parole Denied. Framed for the Murder of 2 FBI Agents

From [HERE] On July 2, Leonard Peltier (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe), a leader of the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the 1970s, was denied parole by the U.S. Parole Commission, ensuring that he will most likely die in federal prison.

Suffering from serious health issues as he nears 80, Peltier is serving two consecutive life sentences for killing FBI agents, Jack R. Coler and Ronald A. Williams, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota in June 1975.

Imprisoned for nearly 50 years, Peltier has maintained his innocence and there are grounds to believe him.[1]

The federal government, for example, withheld a ballistics report at Peltier’s trial indicating the fatal bullets did not come from his weapon, according to court documents Peltier filed on appeal.

One prosecution witness, Michael Anderson, testified during cross-examination that he was threatened by an FBI agent, and said that he agreed to testify in exchange for criminal charges against him in another case being dropped.

Another witness, Myrtle Poor Bear, said that she had been coerced into signing a false affidavit implicating Peltier and that her life had been threatened. “They had the law in their hands, and could do anything,” she said of the FBI. [MORE]