Biden's last minute middle finger to police: pardon of murderer who executed two FBI agents in 1975

WASHINGTON, DC- In another last-minute middle finger to those in law enforcement, the former occupant of the White House, Joe Biden, commuted the life sentence of a man convicted in the double-slaying of two FBI special agents in 1975. 

Just before being evicted from the Oval Office by President Donald Trump, Biden commuted the sentence of far-left activist Leonard Peltier, who killed special agents Ronald Williams and Jack Coler in a shootout in South Dakota, Fox News Digital reports. 

It should be noted that Democrat presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama both denied previous clemency requests for Peltier. However, he had the support of far-left loons Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT), along with former Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland. 

When word of Biden’s actions became public, the FBI Agents Association slammed him. The decision also came after outgoing FBI Director Christopher Wray urged Biden not to free Peltier only days before. 

“The FBI Agents Association (FBIAA) is outraged by [former] President Biden’s decision to commute the sentence of Leonard Peltier, a convicted cop killer responsible for the brutal murders of FBI Special Agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams,” FBIAA President Natalie Bara told Fox News Digital. “This last-second, disgraceful act by then-President Biden, which does not change Peltier’s guilt but does release him from prison, is cowardly and lacks accountability. It is a cruel betrayal to the families and colleagues of these fallen Agents and is a slap in the face of law enforcement.” 

With President Trump being criticized by people such as Sanders, Warren, and other Democrats for pardoning the January 6 defendants, some of whom assaulted police officers, they do not seem to have an issue with Biden going light on people who have killed police officers. Last week, Biden issued clemency to two men jailed for life in connection with the shooting death of a Virginia police officer, as recently reported by Law Enforcement Today. 

On Jan. 10, Wray sent a letter appealing to Biden not to grant the commutation petition. 

“I hope these letters are unnecessary and that you are not considering a pardon or commutation,” Wray wrote. “But on behalf of the FBI family, and out of an abundance of caution, I want to make sure our position is clear: Peltier is a remorseless killer who brutally murdered two of our own–Special Agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams. Granting Peltier any relief from his conviction or sentence is wholly unjustified and would be an affront to the rule of law.” 

Recall that when speaking of President Trump and the bogus criminal investigations of him, Biden repeatedly said that “no one is above the law.”



That apparently doesn’t include members of his own family, the January 6 commission, Anthony Fauci, and now, cop killers. 

Peltier is now 80 years old and is allegedly in poor health. He is serving two life sentences for the murders plus another seven years for an armed escape attempt. He has repeatedly tried and failed to appeal his case. Supporters feared he would die in prison and looked to the feeble, cognitively impaired Biden to set him free. Mission accomplished. 

“For nearly 50 years, no fewer than 22 federal judges, multiple parole boards, and six presidential administrations have evaluated the evidence and considered Peltier’s arguments,” Wray wrote. “Each has reached the same conclusion: Peltier’s claims are meritless, and his convictions and sentence must stand.” 

In a record number of last-minute pardons and commutations, Biden has let 37 of 40 federal death row inmates off the hook, changing their sentences to life without parole. Meanwhile, his equally feckless now-former Attorney General Merrick Garland took the death penalty off the table for a brutal MS-13 leader responsible for seven murders. Among his victims were two teenage girls who were massacred with machetes and baseball bats. 

Haaland, who apparently did something during the Biden administration, praised his decision. 

“I am beyond words about the commutation of Leonard Peltier,” she wrote on X. “His release from prison signifies a measure of justice that has long evaded so many Native Americans for so many decades.” 

Justice. Like what Williams and Coler got after they were brutally murdered on June 26, 1975. The two agents were looking for a group of armed robbery suspects in the Oglala Sioux Indian Reservation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. While he wasn’t one of the suspects, Peltier was inside a vehicle that caught the attention of the agents. 

Unfortunately, they were not cognizant of the fact that Peltier was the subject of an arrest warrant for the attempted murder of an off-duty Wisconsin police officer. 

Court documents showed that Williams warned Coler over the radio that someone in the vehicle was about to open fire on them. A gunfight ensued, and both agents were wounded. The FBI said that Peltier then executed Willams and Coler at point-blank range with his AR-15, pumping bullets into their heads. 

Coler, a native of Bakersfield, California, was an LAPD officer before joining the FBI in 1971. Williams, also from California, joined the agency in 1972. 

The release of Peltier struck deep for Nicole Parker, a former FBI agent who lost two colleagues of hers to line-of-duty violence in 2021. 

“The pardon of Leonard Peltier is not an act of justice but an abandonment of it,” Parker said. 

“I myself lost my dearest friend and colleague, FBI Special Agent Laura Schwartzenberger and Special Agent Daniel Alfin when they were murdered on February 2, 2021, executing a search warrant to stop a child predator,” she told Fox News Digital. “The crushing heartbreak of losing mighty warriors who selflessly protect others is indescribable.” 

While four men were arrested in connection with Williams and Coler’s death, only Peltier was convicted, the FBI said. The government dismissed charges against James Eagle, the man whom Coler and Williams were looking for at the start of the shootout. Two other men, Robert Robideau and Darelle Butler, were acquitted in a 1976 trial. 

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James

He deserves to go FREE .... He has been in jail for 50 years on the same charges others were acquitted on .... The ONLY difference in any of them was that leonard went to Canada .... NOTHING else tards .... These days we see FOR SURE that some of these f.b.i. have NEEDED killing over the years ..... They are NOT supposed to even exist .... Like you pigs ..........

natalie

Every LEO is warranted to just walk off the job and if not then just do the very least to protect themselves. It is the most thankless job out there. Every bureau in law enforcement needs to step up and make their disgust known to both Biden and Trump, someone has to have active plus deceased officers back.

James

They should walk off, before they get driven off ...... A pig is the most useless, un-necessary occupation on the planet .......

James

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John

I wonder how much they paid “The Big Guy” ?

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