Posted on 03/27/2012 4:22:57 PM PDT by tobyhill
Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday blasted police handling of a racially charged case in which a neighborhood watch volunteer shot dead an unarmed black teenager in Florida, accusing local law enforcement officials of botching the investigation.
The lawmakers, speaking at a congressional forum attended by the parents of the slain teenager, called for the immediate arrest of 28-year-old George Zimmerman, the white Hispanic who shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on February 26 in what he said was self-defense.
Florida law enforcement officials have faced intense criticism in recent weeks from civil rights activists and others for not arresting Zimmerman, who remains at large and in seclusion. Police say a state "stand your ground" law that allows people to use deadly force when they perceive danger in any public place has prevented them from making an arrest.
Congresswoman Corrine Brown, who represents Sanford, the town where the shooting took place, decried the police inaction, saying she did not know if it was due to incompetence, a cover-up or "all of the above."
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Hush now. You are getting them all excited.
The members of the Black Congressional Caucus, today, are the stupidest, most racist and leftist of any CBC I’ve seen in over 40 years of watching.
You have old commies and thugs like John Conyers, Bobby Rush, Danny Davis and Barbara Lee, to the mindless blatherers of Sheila Lee Jackson and these twits from Florida. In between you have Chaka Fattah from Phila, an old race-baiter, Charles Rangel, the top crook (along with impeached Alcee Hastings), and literally all the others in-between.
Race-baiting is their game; marxism and welfarism are their tools. Stupidity is their mindset.
What else can you say?
“...I mean, hispanics are white....”
Says who? “Hispanic” is a linguistic group (i.e., Spanish-speaking). Spanish-speaking people come in all races.
“The lawmakers, speaking at a congressional forum attended by the parents of the slain teenager,”
Forum? Is not the same tactic they used when that liberal POS from Georgetown Law got up there and caused a commotion about her cost of birth control drugs? Seems to me a “forum” like this is nothing more than a gaggle of lefties supported by the leftist media to get their points out, which are always wrong. Oh, when is someone going to point out to the dems that Mr. Zimmerman is a registered democrat and a protected minority on top of that too?
And, they know, beyond any reasonable doubt, this is the case, *HOW*?
the infowarrior
...Zimmerman, who remains at large and in seclusion.
What the heck kind of language is his?? Reuters has already convicted him in the press, and now he is AT LARGE?
Reuters needs to be spoken to on this! How, though?
He was arrested. He was not free to leave the scene on his own volition. In fact, he was arrested before anybody checked on Trayvon. Not only was he arrested, disarmed, handcuffed, placed in the back of a police cruiser, the same officer didn’t make the formal investigation but took him to the station for 4-5 hrs of questioning, at night, after Zimmerman had noticeably been beaten, in wet clothes, bloodied, reportedly a broken nose, and later released.
A more serious question is, Why would anybody continue to pursue Zimmerman in this entire affair? What drives that thought process in those going after Zimmerman? It isn’t justice. It doesn’t promote righteousness. It doesn’t promote the authority of the State.
Deep down in the spiritual hearts of those pursuing Zimmerman, what drives them?
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