Posted on 11/03/2014 8:52:44 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Conservative Black Activists Comment on Washington Post Report that Federal Civil Rights Charges Will Not Be Filed Against Darren Wilson in Death of Michael Brown.
Washington, DC - Activists with the Project 21 black leadership network say a new Washington Post report that the Eric Holder-led Department of Justice will not charge Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson with federal civil rights charges in the shooting death of Michael Brown is evidence that the time has come for healing.
“Protestors called for the Eric Holder-led Justice Department to investigate this case. It seems to have concluded its investigation. What more is there to protest?” asked Project 21’s Christopher Arps, who lives near Ferguson and attended perhaps the first prayer vigil related to the shooting. “It is now time to begin the healing process.”
Although the Justice Department will not confirm it, a law enforcement official said to have been briefed on the federal investigation told Sari Horwitz and Kimberly Kindy of the Washington Post: “The evidence at this point does not support civil rights charges against Officer Wilson.” Another unnamed source in law enforcement told the Post: “The evidence we have makes federal civil rights charges unlikely.”
“Eric Holder’s ‘Department of Injustice’ has concluded its civil rights investigation into Darren Wilson. Like the phony civil rights case against George Zimmerman, it should never have commenced,” said Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper, a legal commentator who taught constitutional law at George Mason University and is a former U.S. House of Representatives leadership legal counsel. “A civil rights investigation isn’t a political stunt or a chit to be used whenever convenient. The lives of too many Americans were given in order for its genesis. Shame on Eric Holder for abusing it this way.”
“National civil rights and black street activists raised expectations in the police shooting of black teenager Michael Brown. Nearly pathological in their insistence that Brown was shot in cold blood, despite no real evidence, black leaders and protesters now demand Officer Darren Wilson be arrested, sentenced and convicted for murder. Their rallying cry is ‘hands up, don’t shoot,” alongside “No Justice, No Peace” – a chant made infamous by Al Sharpton,” noted Project 21’s Joe Hicks, a former executive director for the Greater Los Angeles chapter of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference. “We now know, from leaked testimony and forensic evidence presented to the grand jury, that the young Mr. Brown was likely not shot in the act of surrendering and that Officer Wilson’s description of events will most likely result in no criminal charges. Then what? Protesters have been led, by a series of race-hustlers, to believe that they ‘deserve’ the justice they insist on and to demand nothing less than a proverbial lynching of Officer Wilson irregardless of the evidence. This sets the stage for more violence in this small suburb of St. Louis.”
Hicks added: “We’ve seen a version of this play itself out before in Florida after the shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman. If the grand jury refuses to hand down an indictment and the Justice Department has no grounds on which to bring charges, Michael Brown – a small-time local thug – will be elevated into the pantheon of civil rights heroes alongside figures such as Rosa Parks and Emmitt Till. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. must be spinning in his grave.”
To successfully bring charges against Officer Wilson, federal prosecutors must prove Wilson used deadly force against Brown because of Brown’s race. Witness reports, Officer Wilson’s reported testimony and forensic reports indicate a struggle in which Brown may have been the aggressor. Testimony that Officer Wilson feared for his life and acted in self-defense also makes it difficult to prove a civil rights claim.
The news about federal civil rights charges comes as the local grand jury is said to be wrapping up its work. Leaked reports predict it will not charge Officer Wilson. Local communities, having already endured months of violence and unrest, are bracing for renewed violence if no charges are filed.
This could be the second time this year that the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has chosen not to bring charges in a high-profile investigation. In October, reports said the federal agency will not file charges against George Zimmerman in the 2012 death of Trayvon Martin.
Project 21 members have completed over 150 radio and television interviews on the death of Michael Brown and unrest in Ferguson, Missouri in addition to being interviewed or cited by the media over 1,500 other times in 2014 – including TVOne, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Fox News Channel, Westwood One, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, SiriusXM satellite radio, Conservative Commandos and the 50,000-watt radio stations WBZ-Boston, WHO-Des Moines, KDKA-Pittsburgh, KOA-Denver and WJR-Detroit – on issues that include civil rights, entitlement programs, the economy, race preferences, education and corporate social responsibility. Project 21 has participated in cases before the U.S. Supreme Court regarding race preferences and voting rights, defended voter ID laws at the United Nations and provided regular commentary during the Trayvon Martin judicial proceedings in 2013. Its volunteer members come from all walks of life and are not salaried political professionals.
Project 21, a leading voice of black conservatives for over two decades, is sponsored by the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative, free-market, non-profit think-tank established in 1982. Contributions to the National Center are tax-deductible and greatly appreciated.
source:
Judy Kent Project 21 jkent@nationalcenter.org
The timing of this announcement make me go, “hmmm....”
Why's that?
I thought this was supposed to be announced tomorrow at 9 pm, PST...??
BEFORE voting? This is weird.
Won’t this make diverse people STAY HOME..?
Isn’t a failure to demonstrate total faith in dear Leader some sort of thoughtcrime?
In any event, Barry will spin it as just one more example of the Man keeping po’ foke down.
“time to start the healing” = “we’ve got bupkis”.
CC
Induce rioting on Election Day. Likely to suppress conservative groups from going to the polls.
Great tagline, FRiend!
Greeting from a California refugee in Denton.
Which reminds me, I’ve lived here for about 3 years now, but how long until I can start referring to myself as a Texan?
:) I love it here.
It's not so much a matter of longevity as it is fierceness of loyalty. If you believe that Texas can conceivably AGAIN become its own Republic, then you're in :)
Oh yeah, I’m a Texan for certain then.
Can I be an honorary Texan and live in NC?
Not sure, I think you have to move here.
:)
“Which reminds me, I’ve lived here for about 3 years now, but how long until I can start referring to myself as a Texan?”
I can’t answer your question since I’m an Okie. But I was once told by family who had moved to Texas that they were told by fellow-newcomers that you shouldn’t let on that you’ve ever lived anywhere else.
There is supposedly a difference between a Texan and a Born Texan. Permanently. And perhaps even a difference in generations. I have read Freepers bragging how their family was 3rd and 4th Generation Born Texans.
You can admit to visiting someplace outside of Texas. That’s fine. But be sure to pretend that you didn’t enjoy it! :)
Now, I’m not a Texan so I don’t really know. Only had family who had moved down there and that is what they said.
Think on the bright side... you can always move north a bit. And we Okies don’t care where you’re from. :)
I’m tired of the speculation.
When I was born in California Ronald Reagan was the Governor, so I’m not ashamed of my birth state. What it’s become is another story ;)
Given your name, you should appreciate the way the preacher, born in TX, at a former church put it: “I wasn’t born in Oklahoma but I got here as quickly as I could.”
I suppose a new Texan, transplanted from elsewhere, could use the same line, assuming they adopt a Texas state of mind. This would be as compared to the Yankees and Californicators that move in and immediately set about to transform the new location into the same craphole as they just left.
Let the Games begin!
“If you believe that Texas can conceivably AGAIN become its own Republic, then you’re in”
Yes, it’s not how long but your spirit of independence and sense of freedom. Remember a bunch of native people called Texicans (joined by many fresh from other states and countries) fought and died at the Alamo and the battle of San Jacinto because they believed in the freedom to rule themselves. They could not live under the Mexican tyranny and rule of law. As a result Texas fought Mexico and emerged victorious as an independent nation,the Republic of Texas, with a republican form of government. In 1845, they became part of the US. I think Texas is the only state to have once been a nation among the other states in the US.
Knowing that, many Texans feel the US federal government has failed the Lone Star state (on many issues such as immigration, security, defence, education, and so on ...) and that once again Texas should stand alone. What ultimately happens depends on whether our states rights under the Constitution continue to be ignored by a corrupt and tyrannical federal government overreach into our G_D given freedoms and daily lives.
What the liberals have done to California is a crime.....is there any chance of reversing some of the madness??
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