Wed, 12/30/2020 - 11:00pm
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Ronni Walker
Family and friends gathered on both sides of Main Street in Olney to welcome our hometown hero, Dustin Heard, who was among the Raven 23 aka Biden Four that President Trump pardoned recently. As Olney’s Finest escort ed Heard down Main Street on Christmas Eve, you could hear the crowd’s cheers over the sirens.
After Heard’s imprisonment for six years and two months, he was emotional as he stepped outside the car to greet everyone. He stood in the middle of Main Street, embracing his family, including his dad Stacey Heard and his aunt Leatha Hirsh. Hirsch fought tire lessly with award-winning journalist Gina Keating to raise awareness about the Raven 23 trials’ injustice.
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President Trump’s pardon of four former Blackwater contractors has sparked outrage in Iraq and in the United States. Nicholas Slatten, Paul Slough, Evan Liberty and Dustin Heard were convicted in the killing of 14 Iraqis in 2007, when contractors for the mercenary firm opened fire on civilians in Baghdad’s Nisoor Square. The four Blackwater guards were convicted in 2014 after years of painstaking work by investigators and prosecutors to address one of the most infamous chapters of the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Paul Dickinson, who was the lawyer for several victims of the Blackwater massacre, says Trump’s pardons are a fresh insult to Iraqis who lost loved ones and who were promised justice would be served. “Now, after the promises that we made to each one of these victims that we were going to hold people accountable for their criminal actions abroad, that has been taken away from them,” he says.
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