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Pedro Bissonette, another activist in the Wounded Knee Occupation and Gladys Bissonette's adopted son, [3] was killed on October 1, 1973. [8] Tragedy struck again on March 30, 1975 when Richard Eagle, Gladys Bissonette's grandson, was killed while playing with a loaded gun kept for protection from the Goon Squad. [9] Gladys died not many years ...
US Marshals were assigned to protect Wilson and his family. American Indian Movement (AIM) and Lakota supporters occupied the town of Wounded Knee, and a 71-day armed siege resulted, known as the Wounded Knee Occupation. Two Native Americans were shot and killed and a US Marshal severely wounded during this period.
The Goon Squad also made commemorative coins about the squad, one reading "Lt. Middleton's Goon Squad". However, federal prosecutors claimed that McAlpin was the Goon Squad's actual leader. [ 12 ] Five claimed the deputies destroyed food in their kitchens, including smashing a man's face into a cake and pouring milk into a man's dinner.
The Goon Squad federal sentences. March 19: Elward, who shot Jenkins in the mouth, was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. Judge Lee called Elward's crimes “egregious and despicable ...
Two White former Mississippi law enforcement officers who were members of an unlawful “Goon Squad” were sentenced by a federal judge Tuesday to prison after admitting to torturing and abusing ...
6 ex-officers who pleaded guilty in ‘Goon Squad’ torture of 2 Black men sentenced in state court Emma Tucker, Ryan Young, Devon M. Sayers and Holly Yan, CNN April 11, 2024 at 11:51 AM
An example of goon squad activity outside the US was the 2019 Yuen Long attack, or 721 incident, during the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests, in which an armed mob of suspected triad members dressed in white indiscriminately attacked civilians on the streets and in Yuen Long station with steel rods and rattan canes, [7] [8] including the elderly ...
Six former Mississippi police officers, some of whom reportedly called themselves the “Goon Squad,” pleaded guilty this month in a racist attack on Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker, two Black ...