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Attorney General Holder Has a Compelling Reason to Consider a Zimmerman Prosecution
The Hutchinson Report News ^ | July 14, 2013 | Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Posted on 07/14/2013 3:53:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What is the evidence that Zimmerman confronted Martin?

None.


41 posted on 07/14/2013 4:44:21 PM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: shalom aleichem

He’s suggesting the Feds have to step in and re-try the case because the prosecutors botched it. BS. The experienced prosecutors gave it their best shot. They just didn’t have enough evidence to support any theory of the case.


42 posted on 07/14/2013 4:45:50 PM PDT by Procyon (Decentralize, degovernmentalize, deregulate, demonopolize, decredentialize, disentitle.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The defense and prosecution agreed that Martin did not commit a crime

Flat out lie. He committed, at least, battery.

43 posted on 07/14/2013 4:49:13 PM PDT by DManA
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To: KC_Conspirator

Even this author admits there was no racial motive! And he equates neighborhood watch with the LAPD.


44 posted on 07/14/2013 4:52:10 PM PDT by Williams (No Obama)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Let’s face it a federal trial here can only be because our government is being run by black racists.


45 posted on 07/14/2013 4:53:12 PM PDT by Williams (No Obama)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hutchinson is confused - he appears to want Holder to try the “Stand Your Ground” law and find it guilty of Impinging Upon Blackness, not to actually retry George Zimmerman for anything.


46 posted on 07/14/2013 4:56:59 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What compelling reason? Trayvon Martin is Obama’s illegitimate son. Come now the punk was no better than a New Black Panther adherent. Lets face it Holder has to protect yet another terrorist, thug, malcontent, deviant and so on and so forth.

The piece of scum is dead. Zimmerman was freed of any wrongdoing!

Move on Feds Move on. Got bigger things to do - Benghazi, IRS.

Duh i get it the low information voters need to get emotional about something.

Hey in Chicago an female honor student was shot and killed several months ago. What about the justice there?


47 posted on 07/14/2013 5:02:20 PM PDT by hondact200 (Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Swap the names everywhere and it might make sense. But TM is dead so no point having a civil rights investigation into his actions.


48 posted on 07/14/2013 5:05:09 PM PDT by pas
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To: cripplecreek

What is “profiling” and why on earth should it be illegal?


49 posted on 07/14/2013 5:07:42 PM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: Will88

Probably some of the same phonies who were babbling: “If you see something, say something,” only a few short months ago


Apparently that is now a no no! If you see something and say something that shows “ill will” and profiling.


50 posted on 07/14/2013 5:15:43 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: KC_Conspirator

the sanford cops did their investigation and concluded self defense, yet we still had a trial.


51 posted on 07/14/2013 5:25:04 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well there’s no evidence that Zimmerman prevented Martin’s movements prior to the act of self defense. To the contrary, we know that Martin was on top and preventing Zimmerman’s movement.


52 posted on 07/14/2013 5:26:08 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is there not supposed to be a barf alert with this?


53 posted on 07/14/2013 5:28:01 PM PDT by Weirdad (Orthodox Americanism: It's what's good for the world! (Not communofascism!))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

From the article: “The defense and prosecution agreed that Martin did not commit a crime, was not even suspected of a crime, and was on a public thoroughfare when he was killed.”

Uh...no. When he was killed, Trayvon Martin was engaged in assaulting another person, George Zimmerman. Young Mr. Martin was pummeling the older, less fit Mr. Zimmerman, beating him about head and face, pounding his head onto concrete. Beating him to the point where Mr. Zimmerman was in fear for his life.

Nope, not buyin’ the innocent youth argument. Not for a minute.


54 posted on 07/14/2013 5:30:30 PM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2016; I pray we make it that long.)
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To: KC_Conspirator
This is rich considering the FBI did an investigation last summer and concluded that GZ did not act out of racism.

That investigation was premature, as they hadn't been told what their findings were going to be yet.

55 posted on 07/14/2013 5:33:19 PM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Zimmerman was not a police office and did not abuse his power in killing Martin under the color of law. However, he was acting in a quasi-legal capacity as a one-time neighborhood watchman who had close ties and collaboration with local law enforcement. This in effect bestowed on him the presumption of authority to take action to stop and question an individual he considered a crime suspect. This was the rationale that federal prosecutors used in the Rodney King beating case to bring civil rights charge against the four LAPD officers that beat King. The linchpin was that they acted in an official capacity when they violated King’s rights.

This is such a stretch of reasoning.

First of all, the LAPD officers who beat Rodney King were REALLY police officers. They had REAL authority, not this new "presumptive authority" standard the author is trying to proffer.

Second, there is no "quasi-legal" anything to do with Zimmerman. He was a citizen who was coordinating with local police to keep his neighborhood safe. That's what we want, right?

What happened to "If you see something, say something?" George Zimmerman was in a position to "say something" to the local PD. In fact, it's better for local PD to know who the key people are in various housing areas, in order to optimize their ability to respond to a trusted source, instead of having to guess what the situation will be each time they're called into a neighborhood.

Liberals are twisting themselves into pretzels trying to justify why they are so zealous in going after Zimmerman. Their arguments are nothing but one contradiction after another after another.

-PJ

56 posted on 07/14/2013 5:38:30 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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Mark Nejame, famed Orlando attorney, doesn’t think a federal case stands a chance in hell. All of the witnesses were deposed and heard in open court, the rules of discovery in Florida are among the most liberal in the country, the trial was televised before the nation and fully transparent, and the justice department already investigated wrondgoing, via the Sanford PD and Zimmerman. Even the prosecutors said this “wasn’t about racial profiling”. If the federal government has the idiocy to proceed, then we DO live under the tyranny of a monarchist-like government that overrules the Laws of the Land. Shame on Mr. Holder if he takes and eats this race bait.


57 posted on 07/14/2013 5:58:05 PM PDT by Ronsword
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“The nature of the evidence is irrelevant; it’s the seriousness of the charge that matters.”

Rush Limbaugh


58 posted on 07/14/2013 6:04:51 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

~:” Though there was no apparent racial motive in Zimmerman’s confronting Martin, his action clearly violated Martin’s right to exercise his freedom of movement. “

Like bashing Zimmerman’s head on the sidewalk while straddling him.


59 posted on 07/14/2013 6:07:03 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh, how I despise these people.


60 posted on 07/14/2013 6:09:14 PM PDT by KevinB (A country that would elect Barack Obama president twice is no longer worth fighting for.)
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