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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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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Lower the threshold? To what, for heaven’s sake? As it stands, it only has to be white, heterosexual, or male on anyone else, no matter if the anyone else was beating their heads into the cement. God please take this man!


21 posted on 02/25/2015 11:48:24 AM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hey Al,

How's about you STFU and come talk to me after you pay your taxes.

22 posted on 02/25/2015 11:48:39 AM PST by skimbell
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Lets just say it. Rev. Al wants the threshold lowered to the point of, if you’re born with white skin, you’re committing a hate crime.


23 posted on 02/25/2015 11:48:46 AM PST by workerbee (The President of the United States is PUBLIC ENEMY #1)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mr. Sharpton should be careful what he asks for.


24 posted on 02/25/2015 11:49:03 AM PST by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: a fool in paradise

How about the people that put a million dollar (”Dead or Alive”) bounty on his head? Since when is that legal?


25 posted on 02/25/2015 11:49:10 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How bout lowering the threshold for income tax evasion?


26 posted on 02/25/2015 11:49:22 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: a fool in paradise

we need to wipe the slate clean and simply use common sense ...once again...


27 posted on 02/25/2015 11:49:44 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: matt04

Mr. Zimmerman is white, Latino and black.


28 posted on 02/25/2015 11:50:14 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: circlecity
That's exactly what he's saying-that Zimmerman should have shown his lack of hatred by allowing his head to smashed in, unto death if necessary. This is why I am tending more and more to avoid blacks whenever possible-because if anything goes hinky, I will either have to forego my right of self-defense, or be prepared to be crucified for doing so!
29 posted on 02/25/2015 11:50:17 AM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: circlecity

That’s what the whole TM case was about - making it illegal to defend yourself against the left’s “shock troops”.


30 posted on 02/25/2015 11:50:46 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Funny how we managed to hold onto out acquired knowledge through the black plague and other catastrophes, while all it took was for “mighty whitey” to use their super-secret brainwaves to completely clear that knowledge from their brains after we “stole” it from them!


31 posted on 02/25/2015 11:52:17 AM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: chajin

Someone needs to remind Rev Al that that sword has 2 sharp blades.\

Holder won’t be Attny Gen for the rest of eternity, and this country WILL start to prosecute bad behavior on the part of blacks.

Failing that, the coming race war will clean up alot of the bad behavior.


32 posted on 02/25/2015 11:53:04 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I wouldn’t mind seeing him lowered 6 feet. Or more.


33 posted on 02/25/2015 11:56:32 AM PST by clintonh8r (ISIS IS ISlam)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No negro can be charged with any crime against a white.


34 posted on 02/25/2015 11:57:02 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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35 posted on 02/25/2015 11:59:56 AM PST by MtnMan101
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; mickie; pax_et_bonum; Maine Mariner; flaglady47; ExTexasRedhead; Bizzy Bugz; ...
This cheap con artist and extortion pimp is a federal tax evader and convicted felon.

No one in the legal, judicial, law enforcement, governmental or political arenas seems to care....or to evince any inclination to take him on.

You or I would have been in the Fed Hotel long ago if we committed half of his crimes.

Just WHAT is it going to take to clip Sharpton's wings...er, horns.....TO SHUT THIS GUY UP???

It's evident that he learned a long time ago that the best defense is a good offense...so being offensive and on perpetual attack is obviously his modus operandi almost every minute of every day all year long. And this MO continues to work for him with great success.

This slimy little rat is a tower of intimidation to our spineless national and local (purported) leaders.

Leni

36 posted on 02/25/2015 12:08:33 PM PST by MinuteGal
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To: MinuteGal

Arrest will come when O no langer has the authority to pardon criminals No reason to convict him now O would just let him loose. Friends in high places etc


37 posted on 02/25/2015 12:14:09 PM PST by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now)
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To: mrsmel

I think we need anothe James Earl Ray type for Al, Jesse, and that punk Malik Zulu Shabazz.


38 posted on 02/25/2015 12:14:34 PM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

39 posted on 02/25/2015 12:15:25 PM PST by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: hoosiermama
Excellent point, Hoosiermama.

Leni

40 posted on 02/25/2015 12:16:48 PM PST by MinuteGal
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