Attorney Demands Info on Disappearance of Black Man at 1973 Battle at Wounded Knee
Attorney Demands Info on Disappearance of Black Man at 1973 Battle at Wounded Knee
BUFFALO, N.Y. (CN) - An attorney sued the FBI for documents about the unexplained disappearance, and presumed death, of a black civil rights activist during the 1973 siege against the American Indian Movement at Wounded Knee.
Michael Kuzma, of Buffalo, sued the Department of Justice under the Freedom of Information Act, for records he requested from the FBI on Ray Robinson, who went missing in 1973.
Robinson, described in the lawsuit as a follower of Martin Luther King Jr., traveled in April that year to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where the AIM was locked in an armed standoff with the federal government.
"Ray Robinson never returned home to his family, his body has not been found, he has been declared legally dead and little is known about what actually happened to him," Kuzma says in his complaint.
Kuzma is part of the defense team that has worked for years to secure the release of Leonard Peltier, a Native American serving two life sentences in a federal prison in Florida for the deaths of two FBI agents during a 1975 clash at Wounded Knee.
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