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Sharpton: We Must Lower Legal Threshold for Federal Hate Crime
Breitbart TV ^ | February 25, 2015 | Pam Key

Posted on 02/25/2015 11:33:03 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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Wednesday on the “Tom Joyner Morning Show,” in discussing this week’s Justice Department announcement that there is not sufficient evidence to charge George Zimmerman with intentionally violating the civil rights of Trayvon Martin during the 2012 confrontation that tragically resulted in the shooting death of Martin, Al Sharpton said he is now planning to work to “lower the threshold” that legally qualifies who is prosecuted for a federal hate crime.

Sharpton explained, “The intent to prove that Zimmerman did it because of his race, that is the legal threshold,” adding, ” Unless we change that legislation, we end up where we are in terms of the Trayvon Martin case. Clearly I’m disappointed. Clearly I’m sure the family is....

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alsharpton; hatecrimes; sharpton; zimmerman
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1 posted on 02/25/2015 11:33:03 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How ‘bout we first lower “Reverend Al” back into the pig sty that he crawled out of. Race pimp!


2 posted on 02/25/2015 11:34:52 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Bush "hates black people" but don't you dare accuse Barry of not liking Americans!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sounds like a plan ... stay out of white neighborhoods, white McDonalds, white grocery stores ...

So WHO'S the segregationist ?

3 posted on 02/25/2015 11:35:02 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but, they're true)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He want’s it lowered to pre-school aged kids.


4 posted on 02/25/2015 11:36:30 AM PST by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I have a better idea: let’s dispose of the legal fiction of “hate crime,” and simply prosecute crime. If I were to, e.g., kill someone out of spite—which is the basis for “hate crime”—then I can be said to have planned it beforehand, since I did not have any individual-specific reason to kill the victim, and that is murder one, or capital murder. “Hate crimes” are thought crimes, and thought crimes are the hallmark of tyrannies.


5 posted on 02/25/2015 11:39:07 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Al Sharpton and the radical ‘racial police’ want to make nearly every action into some sort of hate crime. But the rules forbid anything like ‘hate’ crime being charged against a black person.

This is nothing more than irresponsible legislation designed to punish people for their skin color - i.e. for being descendants of Europe.


6 posted on 02/25/2015 11:39:34 AM PST by Gumdrop
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So, basically Al wants to make it illegal to defend yourself against an african american. That’s the only way what he’s saying makes any sense in regard to the Zimmerman case.


7 posted on 02/25/2015 11:39:41 AM PST by circlecity
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“White folks was [sic] in caves while we was building empires…. We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.”


8 posted on 02/25/2015 11:39:52 AM PST by Uncle Miltie
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“Homo is not a homophobic term”


9 posted on 02/25/2015 11:40:11 AM PST by Uncle Miltie
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To: chajin

“You a punk faggot”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9IdddtgP2o


10 posted on 02/25/2015 11:41:22 AM PST by Uncle Miltie
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To: circlecity

“So [if] some cracker,” he continued, “come and tell you ‘Well my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold you pocket. That ain’t nothing to be proud of, that means their forefathers was crooks.”[


11 posted on 02/25/2015 11:44:23 AM PST by Uncle Miltie
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I be hatin on the white man


12 posted on 02/25/2015 11:44:35 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; MeshugeMikey

What would the threshold need to be set at to so that Weirder Al can be charged as a hate monger?


13 posted on 02/25/2015 11:45:15 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: chajin

“Al Sharpton, who came down, and he said Tuesday night, kill the Jews, two times. I heard him, and he started to lead a charge across the street to Utica”


14 posted on 02/25/2015 11:45:16 AM PST by Uncle Miltie
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How about lowering the threshold for incarceration for Sharpton.


15 posted on 02/25/2015 11:45:23 AM PST by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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“The intent to prove that Zimmerman did it because of his race, that is the legal threshold,”

Can Mr. Zimmerman sue Mr. Sharpton for defamation of character for the inference he's making?

16 posted on 02/25/2015 11:47:07 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Al “Jew them down” Sharpton is on record as a hateful bigot.


17 posted on 02/25/2015 11:47:55 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: circlecity

Has he decided if GZ is white or Hispanic yet?


18 posted on 02/25/2015 11:48:05 AM PST by matt04
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To: SkyDancer

What he really means is that he wants all crime by whites against blacks to be defined as hate and no crime by blacks against whites can be hate.


19 posted on 02/25/2015 11:48:06 AM PST by jda ("Righteousness exalts a nation . . .")
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To: chajin

If “hate crimes” were to be applied on a totally unbiased manner, there would also be “hate crimes” committed by blacks against whites, and against Christians by Muslims.

But no such “even-handed” application of the provisions of the law as written have been made known by the authorities who supposedly have used this criteria with “prosecutorial discretion”.


20 posted on 02/25/2015 11:48:16 AM PST by alloysteel (It isn't science, it's law. Rational thought does not apply.)
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