Posted on 07/16/2013 11:11:58 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Illinois Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez is calling for Judiciary Committee hearings on the shooting death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin.
In a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, Gutierrez wrote that the committee must hold hearings on the matter “as soon as possible.”
“When any child is gunned down and no one goes to jail, it is incumbent on lawmakers at the highest level of government to investigate whether justice has been done, whether the underlying law is just, and whether federal legislation could help avoid another tragic death like the death of Trayvon Martin,” Gutierrez wrote.
George Zimmerman was acquitted of all charges on Saturday in the death of Martin, after his attorneys argued self-defense.
According to Gutierrez, a member of the Judiciary Committee, Martin’s shooting death “undermines the rule of law, erodes community trust in law enforcement, and exemplify just how dangerous the combination of rampant fear and easily available guns can be,” he wrote. “Even as crime has gone down across the nation, fear of crime, fear of violence, and fear of fellow Americans seems to be ever increasing.”
Gutierrez went on in his letter to address the distrust he says working-class communities have toward law enforcement, pointing out that it took two months for law enforcement to make an arrest in Martin’s death.
He also criticized Goodlatte and the Judiciary Committee for passing the SAFE Act through committee, which would allow states and localities to enforce federal immigration laws as a means to improve interior immigration enforcement.
“There is a widespread feeling in many poor and working-class communities that the police are not there to serve them. The Judiciary Committee recently passed legislation you co-authored to drive an even greater wedge between local police and the communities they serve by turning all police into immigration enforcement officers and criminalizing millions of immigrants and their families,” Gutierrez wrote.
The Illinois Democrat further pointed to guns and the gun industry as another issue the committee should take on but “scarcely has anything to say about it.”
“I note with great sadness that Mr. Martin was just one of hundreds and hundreds of children we have lost to guns,” Gutierrez wrote. “There is no reason in a modern society to accept the sale, marketing, and widespread proliferation of guns as a means for killing other human beings and our laws should reflect that fact.”
Gutierrez’s goal, he concluded is to examine “the panoply of questions left unanswered as George Zimmerman goes free and the Trayvon Martin family mourns.”
He’s calling for hearings?
Fine.
I’m calling for his Impeachment from the House. Send his Racist a$$ back to Illinois.
What’s even more troubling is that the majority of the congress critters are lawyers. How scary!
You are right, but when they are driven by the god of this world then they lack wisdom.
That’s the purpose. It certainly was not wisdom that drove said god of this world to foment a war in heaven.
Now, we should all remember that this Illinois rat is Paul Ryan’s good friend! Someone he respects the opinion of on immigration matters...
By all means you fools in Congress, self identify in the midst of this debacle. It will be much easier to remember your filthy faces in November of 2014.
How about “any time thousands of children are vacuumed and or torn apart limb by limb daily without anyone going to jail, we must reevaluate the laws and the system of justice in place.”
I will gladly entertain this quack’s issue if she will dare to listen to mine.
It never ceases to amaze me what horrible hypocrites these people are.
Business is business, George. You may be half-Hispanic, but my loyalty lies with the Dem Party and what is most politically expedient.
I’m shocked over Paul Ryan. He has shown himself to be another RINO. Guess I’m glad he and Romney weren’t elected. It wouldn’t be much different than what we now have.
Why not get the U.N.(America) (as I call the U.N.) to look into the shooting of the black Thug, Dumbass Rep. Luis Gutless?
I guess he is saying his child is one of the Trayvons, and he approves.
Luis Gutierrez can go straight to hell and take his Commie “immigration” agenda with him.
Maybe trayvon© is just stunned. African grays are quite sensitive.
Wouldn’t that be something if he clawed his way out of the earth walked back into the hood and resumed his rapscallion parrot life.
In the present social and political climate, the obvious question can't be avoided.
Is Mr. Gutierrez a "Black Hispanic?"
I can't be bothered to look it up.
Can any of these racist zombies give us the name of a single real child killed in Chicago during the Zimmerman trial?
The sons of Cain. They are of their father, that wicked one. We may be in this world, but are set apart from it. I hope my Lord and Saviour returns soon:(
Happens everyday in Chicago and twice a day (or much, much more) on weekends...and no one goes to jail.
Maybe you should take a look at that first.
First this mentally diseased lib calls Travon a child. Later he refers to Travon as Mr. Martin. Make up your mind libbie. He can’t be both.
Where the hell does Gutierrez think he is? Nazi Germany? We don’t do things that way in America, Louie.
I have followed Gutierrez and studied his words carefully. He is a rabid anti-white racist.
Gutierrez's true inner desire, summed up by his vast public statements, would be to see "white people" gone from America.
The left is filled with truly evil humans.
The evil left has a blood lust against all that Conservatives cherish about our Republic's Founding.
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