Even DNC Members Are Urging Biden To Let Leonard Peltier Go Home

Even DNC Members Are Urging Biden To Let Leonard Peltier Go Home

President Joe Biden is now facing pressure from within the Democratic National Committee to grant clemency to Leonard Peltier, the 77-year-old Indigenous rights activist who has served 46 years in prison despite no evidence that he committed a crime.

“The continued imprisonment of Leonard Peltier, a citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is one of the great miscarriages of justice in modern history,” the leaders of the DNC’s Native American Caucus said in a statement released late Wednesday.

“We join the National Caucus of Native American State Legislators and the National…

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