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AP: Justice Dept: Zimmerman case under review
Associated Press ^ | July 14, 2013 | AP

Posted on 07/14/2013 1:54:33 PM PDT by 101stAirborneVet

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department says it is looking into the shooting death of Trayvon Martin to determine whether federal prosecutors should file criminal civil rights charges now that George Zimmerman has been acquitted in the state case.

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To: 101stAirborneVet

If I were a member of that jury, that spent my time and effort to deliver a verdict and put myself at risk...I would be livid.

In fact, I’m not a member of the jury...and I am livid.


21 posted on 07/14/2013 2:03:39 PM PDT by berdie
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To: 101stAirborneVet

“Can’t we all just MoveOn?”


22 posted on 07/14/2013 2:03:42 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If America is a nation of immigrants, where's my free stuff?)
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To: 101stAirborneVet

All morning long on the Sunday talkies they were ginning up support for the Justus Department going after Zimmerman — but they won’t file diddly squat because they don’t want to be the federal equivalent of Angela Corey and what will now happen to her.

They have no case. They can’t win. The FBI already found no evidence of racism. And this jury verdict found no evidence of “hate” in their acquittal — the necessary element of a federal “hate crime”.


23 posted on 07/14/2013 2:04:20 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: 101stAirborneVet

Dan Abrams already said this case will go NO WHERE..its a total waste of time and they know it


24 posted on 07/14/2013 2:04:40 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: 101stAirborneVet

Snowden and George Zimmerman: Same story, different title. Men who need to run from their country.


25 posted on 07/14/2013 2:05:26 PM PDT by madison10
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To: 101stAirborneVet
Bring it.

And let's make sure the trial is in October of 2014, just before the election.

26 posted on 07/14/2013 2:05:29 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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To: 101stAirborneVet
Interesting summary on broader agenda

… At bottom, this is one more way of insisting that the individual no longer matters. It’s a way of claiming that what matters is the group an individual belongs to. In this instance, skin color defines the group. The primacy of the group over the individual is the true devastating operation in America. Individuals have freedom. Individuals have independence. Individuals have potential power. These elements are anathema to fascists.

Groups only have agendas. They seek fulfillment of those agendas through government. That kind of partnership increases, in the long run, the dominance of government.

Underneath it all, this is what we’re talking about here: individuals must go, only groups should remain.

27 posted on 07/14/2013 2:05:37 PM PDT by opentalk
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To: timlilje

LOL. The idea of a fed prosecution is an abject joke. No basis in the law. Pathetic thugs. That’s the way that TM looks like Obama. Thugs. Need to take our country back by ridiculing these people and their ludicrous thinking.


28 posted on 07/14/2013 2:06:22 PM PDT by LALALAW (one of the asses whose sick of our "ruling" classes)
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To: 101stAirborneVet

This Zimmerman acquittal is a gift (not from God) for the Democrat Party. If they didn’t have this case to try in Federal Court to rally their base for the 2014 elections, they’d have to create another one.


29 posted on 07/14/2013 2:06:29 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: Uncle Chip

Their biggest challenge would be finding a jury to convict the guy. I suspect the unanimous “not guilty on all counts” verdict — and after only 16 hours of deliberation — is a pretty good indication of public sentiment in this case. They’d have a hard time getting even 2-3 jurors to convict Zimmerman in a Federal civil rights case, let alone 12.


30 posted on 07/14/2013 2:06:43 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've never seen such a conclave of minstrels in my life.")
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To: 101stAirborneVet

Considering the FBI did a several months investigation involving over 10,000 man hours in to racial aspect of this incident and found———nothing. IMHO this is just puffery on the part of the Administration/DOJ to placate the unwashed masses that constitute their base.


31 posted on 07/14/2013 2:06:49 PM PDT by yadent
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To: 101stAirborneVet
Justice Dept: Zimmerman case under review

Saving face. They got no cards, and their bluff was called. They were humiliated by six dames.

32 posted on 07/14/2013 2:07:44 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: 101stAirborneVet

ABC’s Dan Abrams Predicts DOJ Will Not Charge Zimmerman: ‘They Won’t Win And They Know That’

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/abcs-dan-abrams-predicts-doj-will-not-charge-zimmerman-they-wont-win-and-they-know-that/


33 posted on 07/14/2013 2:08:34 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: 101stAirborneVet

Zimmerman was not charged with a hate crime, he was not charged with murder 1, he was charged with murder 2 with an option of manslaughter, and was found innocent by a jury of his peers. Key to his acquittal was evidence that he was defending himself from an attack by Martin. How do you turn this into a civil rights case without - in effect - placing Zimmerman under double jeopardy?


34 posted on 07/14/2013 2:10:21 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: 101stAirborneVet

Obama is going to side step the constitution again (the double jeopardy clause) and keep trying Zimmerman until he is in jail again. Zimmerman needs to get out of the country before he is locked up again.


35 posted on 07/14/2013 2:10:24 PM PDT by broadcastdude (Tagline to be announced later.)
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To: riri; Alberta's Child

I’ve said all along that if I were GZ, I’d pull a Snowden at the first opportunity. Screw this country and the little Hitler wannabe it elected.


36 posted on 07/14/2013 2:10:54 PM PDT by Marathoner (Sarah Palin is our Esther, for such a time as this)
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To: Hotlanta Mike
Last night, Mark O'Mara sounded almost as if he relished the opportunity to take on whatever "civil rights" cases the Left thinks they've got. Then he told the media to F off.

All that said.... I hope GZ is out of the country already.

37 posted on 07/14/2013 2:12:10 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1)
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To: DJ Taylor
This Zimmerman acquittal is a gift (not from God) for the Democrat Party. If they didn’t have this case to try in Federal Court to rally their base for the 2014 elections, they’d have to create another one.
Exactly.

It's not about winning, it's about prolonging the narrative.

38 posted on 07/14/2013 2:12:19 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: yadent

The other big elephant in the corner of this room is that nobody (including Martin’s family) will ever want to make this a case entirely about race. A big problem they face is that every racially-charged statement in this case — from “creepy-@ss cracker” to all the “n!ggas” in the text messages — have been attributed to Martin and/or his friends.


39 posted on 07/14/2013 2:12:27 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've never seen such a conclave of minstrels in my life.")
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To: 101stAirborneVet

Martin (Obama’s son) was found with stolen property.

Of course, the DO”J” has no interest because the
property was stolen by a black hoodlum.

How many were previously murdered by Martin??
and how many are already murdered, or burnt alive,
by Holder?? and Obama??


40 posted on 07/14/2013 2:14:02 PM PDT by Diogenesis
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