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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 ...
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.
On April 4, 1973 a group of AIM Wounded Knee occupants were caught by FBI Agents while leaving Wounded Knee. They were heavily armed and had a list of names of people who were to be "done away with". Wilson and members of his "GOON squad" were on the list. [18]
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
The guilty pleas to the state charges come after the six former officers pleaded guilty to 16 federal charges
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 ...
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 ...
(Reuters) -A federal judge in Mississippi on Thursday wrapped up sentencing of six white former law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to the "Goon Squad" torture and sexual abuse of two ...