The Pine Ridge Shootout - 1975

[HeadHunter]

Tomorrow is the 40th anniversary of the Pine Ridge Shootout in 1975. Two FBI Agents were murdered in a hasty ambush on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. I wrote two articles about it. The first is a blow by blow account published on The Tactical Wire.

http://www.thetacticalwire.com/features/229874

 

[HeadHunter]

The second article about Pine Ridge is an analysis of Lessons Learned on my Tactical Professor blog. I don't publish analyses like this to criticize the victim officers. Rather, I think it's important to learn from their loss so that the sacrifice they made wasn't in vain.

https://tacticalprofessor.wordpress.com/2015/06/25/lessons-from-the-pine-ridge-shootout/

 

[protective measures]

Thanks for sharing both.
Tragic but informative.

Is it known whether any of the attackerrs had prior military training?

 

[41mag]

Very nice write ups, HeadHunter. Thanks for sharing. I Also enjoy your blog

 

[HeadHunter]

Is it known whether any of the attackerrs had prior military training?

Not from the US military.

 

[the_great_white]

Once Agents Williams and Coler were no longer able to fight, the three principal shooters walked to the agents' cars. Those individuals were Leonard Peltier, Robert Robideau, and Darrelle Butler.

There was no eyewitness testimony as to the exact events at the agents' cars.

Both Agents were executed at close range with an AR-15 rifle.

so no witnesses and they were able to put all that together, yet Robert Robideau and Dino Butler were acquitted and found to be acting out of self–defense.

sounds like there's a whole lot more to this story.....gonna go scout around on the webz for a bit....

 

[EugenFJR]

tag 4 later.