Posted on 11/12/2014 7:21:22 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Taaffe to testify to Grand Jury that he couldn’t be sure “racist call” was from Zimmerman.
Earlier this month we posted news that Frank Taafe, a self-proclaimed “friend” of George Zimmerman, was going to testify before a Grand Jury that he now believed Zimmerman had a racist motivation for the shooting of Trayvon Martin. This news came just days before the hotly contested November 4 election in which the Democrats took the same kind of beating that Trayvon delivered to Zimmerman, but without the benefit of being armed. (See: Key Witness for Zimmerman Grand Jury Changes Story.)
Taaffe’s Grand Jury appearance, scheduled for last Wednesday, was delayed for unexplained reasons. (See: We interrupt post-election gloating for news about the DOJ Zimmerman Grand Jury.) According to reporting by the Orlando Sentinel newspaper, however, Taaffe was to appear before the Grand Jury today to testify about Zimmerman’s purported racial animus.
Such testimony would be a game changer in lingering efforts to seek Federal civil rights charges against Zimmerman. Despite dozens of FBI interviews of people associated with Zimmerman, there was never so much as a smidgen of evidence that Zimmerman shot Martin for reasons of racism. Indeed, what evidence was developed ran counter to that narrative.
Among those at the time who told FBI agents that they had no reason to believe Zimmerman had a racial motive for shooting Martin? Frank Taaffe. Here’s the video:
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Without evidence of racial animus there was no basis for a Federal civil rights prosecution, and in fact none was forthcoming. Earlier this year, however, with public interest in him waning, Taaffe suddenly recalled that he had, after all, had a phone conversation with Zimmerman in which the media-described “white Hispanic” had voiced racial animus towards Martin. It appeared, suddenly and literally incredibly, as if there might be a hook on which to hang a civil rights prosecution of Zimmerman after all.
Could this be true?
Short answer: no.
For reasons known only to the Orlando Sentinel, they waited until the 17th paragraph of their 22 paragraph online post to un-bury the lede:
Taaffe said he expected to testify about a phone call days before Zimmerman’s arrest from someone who claimed to be Zimmerman and made a “racial comment” about the case, Taaffe said.
He said the call came from an unknown number, so he couldn’t be 100 percent sure it was Zimmerman.
Oofah. (The “emphasis added” fairy contributed to the above quote.)
Here’s Taaffe’s impromptu, and VERY lengthy (almost 20 minute) statement to the press today:
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So once again the Federal Department of Justice in particular and the Zimmerman-haters in general are left without so much of a smidgen of evidence of racism on any facet–not one–of Zimmerman’s interaction with Trayvon Martin nor the entirety of Zimmerman’s life leading up to that night.
Indeed, as has always been the case the only evidence of racism that night is the racism of Trayvon Martin. Rachel Jeantel, with whom Martin was speaking on the phone up until moments before his death, gave sworn testimony that Martin referred to Zimmerman as a “cracker,” a racist term used to refer to white people.
I concluded my November 1st post on this matter with the words: “Color me cynical.”
Right again. :-)
The talk of eventually prosecuting Zimmerman was all about the election and can now be dropped.
Bingo
This reminds me of Islam being called “The religion of peace”. Over 13 years since 911 I am still waiting for someone to show me one single solitary example of that. Same with Zimmerman - I’m still waiting for one single solitary example, one scintilla of evidence of racism from Zimmerman.
Not exactly. She referred to Zimmerman as a “Creepy Ass-Cracker”
A lot of good that did them. Suck it Holder.
So hearsay evidence by a completely uninvolved not-even-tertiary character is now what we hang the prosecutorial hat on?
Good grief.
Unless self defense is suddenly some kind of offense...they need to drop it now.
I’m glad we have a rock solid attorney general here in Michigan. Bill Schuette sticks solidly to the state constitution even if it puts him in conflict with the governor.
His only real activism is his constant lobbying for tougher child trafficking laws and penalties.
Everything we know about Zimmerman, such as his mentoring black kids, fighting for a homeless black man and being about 1/8 black himself, argues against all this nonsense.
Frank Taafe needs to be quiet, if he is any sort of ‘friend’. Taafe adds nothing to the conversation but confusion. The little bit I know about Frank Taafe reminds me of Kato, one of the ‘key’ witnesses in the O.J. Trial, whose testimony was rather insignificant, it turns out.
It is a religion of peace.
The peace of the grave for non-believers, that is.
Please consider the following ridiculous question concerning this issue. Slavery clauses aside, since the only race-based right that the states have ever amended the Constitution to protect is voting rights as evidenced by the 15th Amendment, that amendment giving the feds the power to legislatively strengthen race-based voting right protections, what anti-black Florida state voting law / policy is Zimmerman being accused of enforcing to merit the constitutionally justified attention of the feds?
It make more sense that the corrupt feds are making a constitutionally baseless “civil rights” issue out of the Zimmerman issue in order to win low-information voter support for Democrats, such voters likely clueless about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers.
George Zimmerman’s Black Ancestry is Revealed
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2876811/posts
George Zimmerman: the black, Hispanic, Peruvian, kind-hearted non-white, not-racist poster boy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2876692/posts
George Zimmerman Has ‘Black Roots’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2876518/posts
The Holder Obama lynch mob is full effect. Discusting.
Thanks for links.
But I understand that Zimmerman is not PC black.
Don’t they have double jeopardy any more. You can’t be retried after you’ve been found not guilty. The DOJ needs to go back to law school.
Civil rights violations are different than 2nd degree murder. That’s how they got the Rodney King policemen.
I wonder if the duds ever heard of double jeopardy? How many times are they going do this? He was found not guilty and that was not enough for the race baiters.
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