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.
“What difference does it make?”
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Yeppers!
Nice Floyd reference.. And by the way Which one is Pink?
They want riots so Obama can finally initiate Martial law and finally shut the Right Wing up for good. That is my opinion.
This is Boston part 2. They learned from their mistakes there, and are practicing with Sanford.
Both planned false flags.
What did people expect when they elect a black man from the hood? Seriously. I am not surprised it turned out this way, only at the extent. Face it people. We’re surrounded by idiots.
I think we know what it will take. You up for it? If not us, who will?
*crickets*
Something tells me a trip to Dee Cee is in my future. I only hope some will join me. After all what can a 40 year old grandma accomplish by herself. We need to be squeaky wheels or we won’t get the grease.
I think you might be on to something...
The black gangs are already his willing stormtroopers.
This might be a combination Reichstag/Kristallnacht.
I thought that about Clinton too. You could very well be right.
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Now gotta wonder how many of the Zimmerman trial jurors will be NSAed and/or punished for voting the “wrong” way in the jury room.
The churches involved should be stripped of their tax exempt status.
Legal action could be taken...THAT is the difference.
(...though citizens may have to take that action or persuade congress to do so...)
To be honest...we ordinary citizens have yet to take some powerful, fully ORGANIZED action with regard to all the corruption that is taking place in our government.
AGREED..DISGUSTING AND VILE!
If, somehow, Zimmerman is convicted, I would think this unheard-of meddling in a criminal case would be grounds for appeal.
"NSA, please pick up the courtesy phone." That would be putting the NSA's collected data to good use in catching actual criminals.
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