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El Laberinto, 1971-1987

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12-gauge shotgun, standard operating equipment for BIA police, at close range. An ambulance making a routine run to the Pine Ridge Hospital passed by and was glagged won to take Bissonette to the facilities.
But witness who arrived soon afterwards noted there was a large pool of blood about 45 feet away from where the auto was parked. They noted too that there was a delay of over an hour ion getting the man to the hospital, just three or so miles away.
He was shot by Joe Clifford, who half-sister had been married to Pedro. There had been trouble in the marriage and Clifford had told a number of people he was looking for Pedro and was going to get him. This is the man that the BIA assigned to track down Pedro.
Pedro was on a $25,000 bail. This was due to some alleged assault charge that he had been accused of while in the town of White Clay, Nebraska.
The official Police report says Pedro was shot at 9:48 and was brought to the hospital dead on arrival at 10;10 pm. Yet witnesses insist they had come on the scene before 9pm after six BIA police cars arrived, and that Pedro's body lay in a pool of blood.
U.S. Attorney William Clayton had assured the Bissonette family that the body wouldn't be removed before it was examined by an independent pathologist. However, it was SPIRITED FROM THE HOSPITAL AND ACROSS STATE LINES IN THE NIGHT- ON CLAYTON"S ORDERS.
Bissonette's family and the defense attorneys from the WKLDOC demanded an autopsy by a pathologist agreed upon by both themselves and the U.S. Government. Apparantly even while this was being negotiated, the body was being removed. It was DISCOVERED LATER IN A SCOTSBLUFF, NEBRASKA, MORGUE.
Witnesses said that Bissonette was on his way to see Lane, his attorney. He had been pegged by U.S. officials as a weak link in the IAM command, and he had been pressured to turn state's evidence. HE HAD REFUSED- BUT HE WAS A KEY WITNESS TO PROVE CONSPIRACY BY GOVERNMENT PEOPLE AGAINST A FAIR TRIAL.
Russel Means, a co-defendant of Bissonette's compared the death and the general reign of terror on the reservation directed at AIM supportes to the brutal end that so many leaders of the native people have faced in past centuries.
(This could be comparable to the chicano Movement and the Blacks.) rz

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10 12-gauge shotgun, standard operating equipment for BIA police, at close range. An ambulance making a routine run to the Pine Ridge Hospital passed by and was glagged won to take Bissonette to the facilities. But witness who arrived soon afterwards noted there was a large pool of blood about 45 feet away from where the auto was parked. They noted too that there was a delay of over an hour ion getting the man to the hospital, just three or so miles away. He was shot by Joe Clifford, who half-sister had been married to Pedro. There had been trouble in the marriage and Clifford had told a number of people he was looking for Pedro and was going to get him. This is the man that the BIA assigned to track down Pedro. Pedro was on a $25,000 bail. This was due to some alleged assault charge that he had been accused of while in the town of White Clay, Nebraska. The official Police report says Pedro was shot at 9:48 and was brought to the hospital dead on arrival at 10;10 pm. Yet witnesses insist they had come on the scene before 9pm after six BIA police cars arrived, and that Pedro's body lay in a pool of blood. U.S. Attorney William Clayton had assured the Bissonette family that the body wouldn't be removed before it was examined by an independent pathologist. However, it was SPIRITED FROM THE HOSPITAL AND ACROSS STATE LINES IN THE NIGHT- ON CLAYTON"S ORDERS. Bissonette's family and the defense attorneys from the WKLDOC demanded an autopsy by a pathologist agreed upon by both themselves and the U.S. Government. Apparantly even while this was being negotiated, the body was being removed. It was DISCOVERED LATER IN A SCOTSBLUFF, NEBRASKA, MORGUE. Witnesses said that Bissonette was on his way to see Lane, his attorney. He had been pegged by U.S. officials as a weak link in the IAM command, and he had been pressured to turn state's evidence. HE HAD REFUSED- BUT HE WAS A KEY WITNESS TO PROVE CONSPIRACY BY GOVERNMENT PEOPLE AGAINST A FAIR TRIAL. Russel Means, a co-defendant of Bissonette's compared the death and the general reign of terror on the reservation directed at AIM supportes to the brutal end that so many leaders of the native people have faced in past centuries. (This could be comparable to the chicano Movement and the Blacks.) rz [hand drawing of a man]