Posted on 07/16/2013 10:37:30 AM PDT by YourAdHere
The National Black Church Initiative (NBCI) , an organization representing 34,000 Black churches, is staging a rally July 15 at noon in front of the Justice Department headquarters in Washington, D.C. to protest the verdict in the murder trial of George Zimmerman.
The NBCI, which has been among the leading advocates for justice in the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., is calling for the demonstration to buttress demands for the Justice Department to launch a prosecution under federal civil rights laws of George Zimmerman, who was found not guilty July 13 by a Florida Circuit Court jury of second degree murder and manslaughter charges in the 2011 shooting death of Martin.
Zimmerman, who told police he shot Martin in self-defense during a scuffle in a gated community Feb. 26, 2012, after the 29-year-old neighborhood watch volunteer confronted the unarmed teenager who was returning from a snack run to the townhouse occupied by his father.
The call for Justice Department action came minutes after the six-member, all-female jury delivered the not guilty verdict. The NAACP, which is holding its annual convention in Orlando, Fla., said it is seeking “to open a civil rights case against George Zimmerman.”
In a Twitter posting within minutes of the verdict, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization said, “The Department of Justice has closely monitored the State of Florida’s prosecution of the case against George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin murder since it began. Today, with the acquittal of George Zimmerman, it is time for the Department of Justice to act.”
The statement is posted on a petition posted on MoveOn.org in which NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Jealous is seeking support for a Justice prosecution.
Jealous and other civil rights leaders have spoken with senior members of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's team at the Justice Department about pursuing federal civil rights charges against George Zimmerman, Jealous said on several Sunday news talk shows. Holder has said that a hate crime prosecution would have to clear a high bar for establishing a hate crime.
If the black churches were doing their job and preaching forgiveness this country would be transformed.
Yep, the dems are working overtime to get their base out to the polls.
Excellent comment.
Can we correct the title please? So-called “Churches”...
Allows multiple voting.
Sorry folks. A court of law trumps a lynch mob. Thanks for playing, though.
CHURCHES?!?!?!?
Don’t they know that they are supposed to be on the side of truth?
Proverbs 19:9 - A false witness shall not be unpunished, and [he that] speaketh lies shall perish.
Psalms 1:1-6 - Blessed [is] the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
By all means, let them self-identify as hate mongers who want to promote a thug whose liver —at seventeen— was lareday being damaged by drugs, who is connected to stolen property, and who was shot to death while trying to beat an Hispanic man to death. Yes, by all means allow these faux churches to self identify as the hate mongering anti-American scum they are! America needs to see this spectacle of irrational hatred spewing from what the democrips have built. And after these vermin self identify, when the collapse their government has arranged arrives, the filed will be much clearer. If America is to recover, it will need to know these vermin so they cannot be allowed to infect what comes after we the people start rebuilding.
Many believe the outcome of the Zimmerman trial is reflective of this country's
contempt for Black men. Do you:
A. Disagree
B. Agree
Is THAT how this goes ?
Be sure and take care of the OJ trial while you’re at it.
The one’s that are communist front orgs?
Don’t any of these savages work?
WTF is that thing in the middle?
We are behind in the poll, but that is to be expected from an AFRO paper.
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