Posted on 02/25/2015 6:55:53 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
On Tuesday, the Department of Justice announced it would not file civil rights charges against George Zimmerman for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Martin’s family described the decision as a “disappointment.” The federal government will now close the investigation for good.
According to USA Today, the federal investigation did not find sufficient evidence in the Trayvon Martin case to meet the high standards for a civil rights violation. The announcement will close the federal investigation, but Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement that it should not end the dialogue and scrutiny over race relations in America.
“The death of Trayvon Martin was a devastating tragedy. It shook an entire community, drew the attention of millions across the nation, and sparked a painful but necessary dialogue throughout the country.”
The Trayvon Martin shooting in Florida launched a series of protests that have largely failed to produce a tangible response from lawmakers. Eric Holder’s reaffirmed there’s still work to do to prevent future tragedies.
“This young man’s premature death necessitates that we continue the dialogue and be unafraid of confronting the issues and tensions his passing brought to the surface. We, as a nation, must take concrete steps to ensure that such incidents do not occur in the future.”
The Department of Justice (DoJ) may have failed to get the necessary evidence, but it wasn’t for a lack of trying.
The George Zimmerman investigation began almost immediately after the shooting on February 26, 2012, but was postponed while Zimmerman faced trial for second-degree murder in Florida’s state court. After Zimmerman’s acquittal on July 13, 2013, the federal investigation resumed.
DoJ conducted 75 interviews with witnesses, reviewed police encounters with Zimmerman, and even retained the services of an independent biomechanical expert. They attempted to determine if Zimmerman approached Trayvon Martin in a threatening way or if his surveillance was racially motivated.
Evidence from the independent investigation, combined with evidence from the murder trial, was still deemed insufficient.
Holder’s statement ended, “our decision not to pursue federal charges does not condone the shooting that resulted in the death of Trayvon Martin and is based solely on the high legal standard applicable to these cases.”
Martin’s family was “disappointed” by the result, according to the Washington Post. In their own statement to the media, they said they would carry on with Trayvon’s memory still in their heart.
“We will never, ever forget what happened to our son, Trayvon, and will honor his memory by working tirelessly to make the world a better place.”
Zimmerman didn’t win anything. St. Tray screwed up Zimmerman’s life and there is no going back.
**This young man’s premature death necessitates that we continue the dialogue and be unafraid of confronting the issues**
a. Don’t beat people.
b. Finish school.
c. Learn a trade or earn a degree.
d. Get a job, work hard.
e. Get married, have children, in that order.
f. Be there for them, teach them to be good citizens, starting with a, b, c, d and e above.
Other than that I don’t see any issues that require further dialogue.
There never was any basis for a prosecution, and as much as the Justice Department wanted it, they would have never succeeded with a prosecution.
” as much as the Justice Department wanted it, they would have never succeeded with a prosecution.”
They DID manage to get Zim 10,000 death threats, and have the MSM follow him around 24/7. He has no life.
How much did they waste on this unneeded investigation, just to quiet the savages?
In a nutshell, adhere to the traditional American/Western/Christian values that lead to successful lives.
Of course, can’t do that.... that be actin’ white.
In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Trayvon Martin Shooting: George Zimmerman Wins Again, DOJ Drops Investigation, stephenjohnbanker wrote:
” as much as the Justice Department wanted it, they would have never succeeded with a prosecution.They DID manage to get Zim 10,000 death threats, and have the MSM follow him around 24/7. He has no life.”
Here is the reason
While we were constantly reminded by the selective repeating of the audio and visual later unincluded text portions of the Martin Luthur King Jr. famous “I have a dream “ speech.
The left and its media arm never makes references to the beginning and King’s references to the way this country was uniquely created with its purposes of existence declared through its carefully crafted Constitution, citing God gifts to mankind, and its Declaration of Independence .
They never cite King’s support and belief in it. Because it wouldn’t serve the purposes of racial division which King was against.
This race war crap was started for one reason and this agenda was driven because;
As opposition to Obama’s abuse of his constitutional authority and talk of “impeachment” began to arise and his polling numbers fell.
What Obama needed, worked for, and got , by separating and isolating his solid group of supporters the blacks through creating out of whole cloth stories of “victimization”.
Using circumstances where lawless black youths wound up dead in felonious struggles over guns held by figures of authority. Both Martin and Brown were the attackers. Obama used his “Bully Pulpit to reinforce that “victim” agenda in Florida and Missouri. In both cases he portrayed authority as the aggressors and the perpetrators as the “victims”
In Florida’s case success was indicated by the number of incidents where members of other races were attacked severly injured or murdered by black youths committing these assults in the name of the so called “victim” All the while Obama neither commented on nor condemed such activity.Because of this, the question ; Is there blood on his hands ? Are those deaths that resulted from these incidents innocent “victims” of that agenda? Is avoided.
In Missouri he met with and issued a “stay the course” order to the Ferguson protesters. They in turn coordinated by the usual suspects organized nationwide protests. Their purpose and result was a successful demonstration of what would happen if congress ever moved on any constitutional efforts to restrain or even remove Obama including“Impeachment”..
Once the regime measured its unexpected success why not continue ?
Expand it to war on law enforcement. Get more cops refuse to respond or get killed if they do. or hesitate to defend themselves while attempting to confront “afro-americans” engaged in felonious assults while fleeing or are engaged in criminal activity resisting arrests.
Attack the Grand Jury system investigating police mal practice. It’s not after the facts. It’s after “payback”to those poor hypenated Americans known as “Afro” who because of their financial situation are forced to pillage, kill, and rape. And are entitled to do so.
Exploit innocent interchanges between “afros” and different races make them (the afros) believe it’s racist. Create uneeded tension between them and other groups so that those groups not only view them with aprehension but feral creatures unable to know right from wrong
All because the regime must be protected from being questioned in its exercize and abuse of power.
Then bring in another completely alien group which they believe are easier to manipulate which will furthur isolate the “afro” who will get thrown to the wolves once they’re politically no longer “usefull”.
All made possible by the agenda driven socialist products from academia running the alphabet soup venues controlling the visual and print media . Competing with each other protecting their beneficiairies financial interests. That has wound up in “Trusts” controlled by individuals or groups interested only in protecting their own self interests. “Trusts” which should be broken up.
Worse yet supported by the leadership of the political opposition. Who see the benefits of “working together” expanding government. As the happless voter having never to get their day of reckoning and their children’s children’s children pay the bills living in a culture their forebearers wouldn’t ever recognize. Using the dream of King’s speech as the door mat by a person of his race destroying it.
How much did this DOJ mime performance cost the taxpayers? They should take the cost of it from next year’s budget.
In one sense Zimmerman has won three times—when he foiled Trayvon’s attempt to kill him, when he was acquitted of murder, and when the DOJ decided to drop the case. But in another sense he has lost—thanks to the unholy alliance of the race hustlers and the media, the rest of his life won’t be anything near as good as it might have been...and there is always the possibility that it will be cut short by someone angry that he wasn’t sent to prison for life.
I find Zimmerman’s “wins” to be more of a narrow escape from tragedy. He has only avoided bad things (great escapes though they are), not “won” anything positive.
This young man’s premature death could have been prevented if he hadn’t decided to take out Zimmerman. Remind me again of who was sitting on top of whom, beating his head into the ground? God, these people make me sick to my stomach - Trayvon was a victim of his own poor choice, not because his skin was black. Bunch of race baiters - Lord, I can’t wait until these commies are gone from the WH - if they ever leave, that is.
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