Posted on 07/10/2013 9:47:53 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Judicial Watch announced today that it has obtained documents proving that the Department of Justice played a major behind-the-scenes role in organizing protests against George Zimmerman. Zimmerman is on trial for second-degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in February 2012.
Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the DOJ on April 24, 2012. According to the documents JW received, a little-known DOJ unit called the Community Relations Service deployed to Sanford, FL to organize and manage rallies against Zimmerman.
Among JW’s findings:
•March 25 – 27, 2012, CRS spent $674.14 upon being “deployed to Sanford, FL, to work marches, demonstrations, and rallies related to the shooting and death of an African-American teen by a neighborhood watch captain.”
•March 25 – 28, 2012, CRS spent $1,142.84 “in Sanford, FL to work marches, demonstrations, and rallies related to the shooting and death of an African-American teen by a neighborhood watch captain.
•March 30 – April 1, 2012, CRS spent $892.55 in Sanford, FL “to provide support for protest deployment in Florida.”
•March 30 – April 1, 2012, CRS spent an additional $751.60 in Sanford, FL “to provide technical assistance to the City of Sanford, event organizers, and law enforcement agencies for the march and rally on March 31.”
•April 3 – 12, 2012, CRS spent $1,307.40 in Sanford, FL “to provide technical assistance, conciliation, and onsite mediation during demonstrations planned in Sanford.”
•April 11-12, 2012, CRS spent $552.35 in Sanford, FL “to provide technical assistance for the preparation of possible marches and rallies related to the fatal shooting of a 17 year old African American male.” – expenses for employees to travel, eat, sleep?
JW says the documents it obtained reveal that CRS is not engaging in its stated mission of conducting “impartial mediation practices and conflict resolution,” but instead engaged on the side of the anti-Zimmerman protesters.
On April 15, 2012, during the height of the protests, the Orlando Sentinel reported, “They [the CRS] helped set up a meeting between the local NAACP and elected officials that led to the temporary resignation of police Chief Bill Lee according to Turner Clayton, Seminole County chapter president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.” The paper quoted the Rev. Valarie Houston, pastor of Allen Chapel AME Church, a focal point for protestors, as saying “They were there for us,” after a March 20 meeting with CRS agents.
Separately, in response to a Florida Sunshine Law request to the City of Sanford, Judicial Watch also obtained an audio recording of a “community meeting” held at Second Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Sanford on April 19, 2012. The meeting, which led to the ouster of Sanford’s Police Chief Bill Lee, was scheduled after a group of college students calling themselves the “Dream Defenders” barricaded the entrance to the police department demanding Lee be fired. According to the Orlando Sentinel, DOJ employees with the CRS had arranged a 40-mile police escort for the students from Daytona Beach to Sanford.
“These documents detail the extraordinary intervention by the Justice Department in the pressure campaign leading to the prosecution of George Zimmerman,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “My guess is that most Americans would rightly object to taxpayers paying government employees to help organize racially-charged demonstrations.”
Organizing such protests falls well withing both President Barack Obama’s and Attorney General Eric Holder’s wheelhouses. Obama was a “community organizer” in his career prior to elective politics, a position that uses protests and street theater, along with threats, to obtain concessions from businesses and other political opponents. Holder has accused America of being a “nation of cowards” for not discussing racial issues enough. He also described black Americans as “my people” during a congressional hearing.
As the Zimmerman trial winds down, the threat of race riots should he be acquitted have risen.
Well, I am disgusted. This is a crime!! My prayer is that the DOJ hasn’t threatened the jury to vote Zimmerman guilty. Just you watch! This is pathetic!
Still think we are free?
We are being governed by those who have intentions contrary to American interests.
So, kill the messenger then? What do you think they did? Make up the info?
I hope a Republican House, Republican Senate and Repulican president, is elected soon and fires just about every single federal employee and brings in fresh blood that is committed to non-partisan, non-political, public service.
bkmk
“Hussein is doing everything he can to start an Uncivil War in this country.”
Chuck Manson’s plan was to start a race war, and he expected that he and his family would eventually come out on top. Didn’t work out.
And didn’t McVeigh think his Ryder truck would trigger CWII? Didn’t work out.
That’s what communist...er, community organizers do.................
ping
Wow. It’s likely Zimmerman would never have been charged without certain groups pressuring the city which we now know was “aided and abetted” by this Justice Dept. group.
Never let a manufactured, trumped up, fake, astro-turf, racist, kangaroo court crisis go to waste!.................
Yes, I wonder if this is actionable. And what do you want to be if he’s acquitted he’ll be brought up on fed’l “civil rights” charges?
Some on the thread pooh-poohed the idea that a conspiracy involving the government was behind his death. Just a drunk, crazy journalist who wrecked his car. Move along.
At one time I might have been inclined to agree. But then strangely enough those conspiracies started to become all too real under this president, President Thug and his minions. Starting with Fast and Furious....but just move along, nothing to see.
And just what is this if not a conspiracy to railroad a innocent man for the benefit of President Thug’s race hustler friends?
A regime that doesn’t hesitate to condemn an innocent man to a life in prison, or to murder border patrol agents, or to spy on every cell phone call, or use the IRS to intimidate those with the wrong opinions, wouldn’t hesitate to ace an inconvenient journalist, now would they?
Frightening to see this happening in our country.
I was thinking last night that the entire Obama administration should be charged with violations of the RICO law. Plenty of evidence that the regime is a ongoing criminal enterprise.
Ping without comment, because I’ve no words to describe this one.
There is no small, incremental way back to order.
Really? Like F&F? Like Benghazi? Like the IRS? Like the NSA? All “BIG” stories buried and forgotten. This latest “big” story will go nowhere, also.
Still think we are free?
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Absolutely NOT.
This should have been posted in the “Breaking News” category so that it won’t get lost. This is big. Posters are reporting the Rush Limbaugh has picked up the topic and is reading the information on the air as of ~10:30AM.
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