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.
I agree. What a pity the low-information types have no clue just how bad this is.
The DOJ can just say that they got involved to assure that the planned rallies did not degenerate into riots. There does not seem to be anything in the article that would rule that out.
That’s the $64,000 question.
Disney World is 25 miles SW of Orlando. Sanford is 25 miles north of Orlando. 50 miles between Sanford & Orlando.
Make that 50 miles between Sanford & Disney World.
..... The DOJ will simply maintain that they were there for the prime directive of preventing and/or diffusing racial tensions or flareups which was totally within their jurisdiction of service ...... as in .... Nothing to see here folks!
It's sad that far too many FReepers are evidently lacking in basic maritime skills, myself included. Just the other day I lost over 1,000 rounds of 5.56 along with my AR-15 and my VEPR whilst enjoying a leisurely pontoon boat ride along the St. Johns. Shame, really. None of it was insured.
Thanks for posting this... Now the anti - Klayman phonies that post to FR can shut their friggin pieholes and go back to their bloated beltway jobs
Department of INJustice, Shenanigans Section. Spending our money on Eric H0lder’s community organizing riots!
I wonder if they are somehow using this to try to take away our guns, one way or the other?
Oh - you’ll still be able to keep your guns.
But you won’t be able to use it in self defense.
And you won’t be able to keep a round in the chamber. (I shudder to think what would have happened if Martin carried a spare magazine or two.)
Thanks for the ping. I need to contact family members in Florida. And watch myself here in glorious Chicagoland.
Every day, it’s something new. How do you file a civil suit against the US Department of Justice for RICO charges when the US Department of Justice is the federal agency that investigates federal RICO charges? Oh, look! It’s another “Holder will investigate himself” situation! < /s >
The Marxists have had decades to plan their Revolution. Putting Holder in his key DOJ position was a vital step for their progressive tyrannical takeover, and so was their NSA Prism database; the total govt control of health care; the overreach of IRS Overlords; the mysterious deaths of journalists who aren’t compliant and everything else they’ve done since 2008. It’s so obvious that it’s all scripted. I feel like we’re all little marionettes who are being toyed with. Cattle being led to slaughter. Sheeple herded over a cliff.
Sanford is effectively a suburb of Orlando. A lot of people here are expecting riots in Sanford. But the real area of concern for my as a local is not Sanford but the near northwestern parts of Orlando (Pine Hills, Edgewater area, Lockhart) and various points in the near south. Those are the biggest concentration of Holder’s people, but there is not an insignificant amount in Apopka.
That said, Apopka is also full of gun-toting rednecks so that should balance things out nicely.
*****force this piece of racist S@@@ out , I;m sick of fast and furious, dropping charges to racists, my people, lying, and lying and all we get is useless hearings by Issa.
Force this racist out*****
How do we accomplish that? Notice how something similar happened in Egypt. The military took action and took out Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood only after there were millions of Egyptians in the capitol protesting. What would it take for that to happen here?
What we have going on is an inquisition by militant zealots, and they intend to burn Zimmerman at the stake. It’s the kind of rabble-rousing drama Obama thrives on.
Up on Drudge now.
Medved!
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