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Newly Released Documents Detail the Dept of Justice’s Role in Organizing Trayvon Martin Protests
PJ Tatler ^ | July 10, 2013 | Bryan Preston

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.


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Yes, you read that correctly. Surprised?
1 posted on 07/10/2013 9:47:53 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

disgusting. vile.


2 posted on 07/10/2013 9:50:37 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That - along with the NAACP convention in Mammy, FLA - should prove for interesting non-news.

Holders people could burn down half of Sanford, and I believe the alphabet networks will just ignore it as they do 90 percent of all black violence.


3 posted on 07/10/2013 9:50:40 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

STUNNED! But not surprised - it is right up their alley.


4 posted on 07/10/2013 9:52:09 AM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Disgusted, but not surprised that Eric Holder is behind the persecution of George Zimmerman.


5 posted on 07/10/2013 9:52:10 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This stuff should all be entered into the case as evidence of official government conspiracy against George Zimmerman before he’s had a trial. DOJ already had him convicted. Local PD forced by fedgov to arrest and charge him with an incident they’d investigated and found nothing to them from evidence or any other expert to counter-indicate self-defense.


6 posted on 07/10/2013 9:52:13 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Time for ANOTHER hearing.. Drag Holder before Congress so he can be found in contempt, AGAIN.


7 posted on 07/10/2013 9:52:14 AM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Kristallnacht ping...


8 posted on 07/10/2013 9:52:20 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m sure they have been integral in organizing the coming riots too.


9 posted on 07/10/2013 9:53:07 AM PDT by Thane_Banquo ( Walker 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Also relevant. Lucky just posted this link....

 

To: jboot
New Black Panther Party allegedly busing mobs to Sanford, Florida for expected riots
31 posted on Wednesday, July 10, 2013 11:43:56 AM by Lucky9teen (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.~Thomas Jeffer)
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10 posted on 07/10/2013 9:54:03 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That certainly explains why the prosecution went forward.


11 posted on 07/10/2013 9:54:40 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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12 posted on 07/10/2013 9:54:59 AM PDT by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost

I wish Trey Gowdy was a FReeper.


13 posted on 07/10/2013 9:55:16 AM PDT by txhurl ('The DOG ate my homework. That homework, too. ALL my homework. OK?' - POSHITUS)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Holders people could burn down half of Sanford, and I believe the alphabet networks will just ignore it as they do 90 percent of all black violence.

You've got that wrong. It's 99%+, not 95%. It's far worse than anyone thinks. The Obamnunist crowd and their enablers are going to get their race war. It's just not going to turn out the way they think it will.

14 posted on 07/10/2013 9:55:56 AM PDT by Noumenon (What would Michael Collins do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Holder’s “people” organized it? Orly...


15 posted on 07/10/2013 9:56:17 AM PDT by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hussein is doing everything he can to start an Uncivil War in this country.


16 posted on 07/10/2013 9:56:41 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Goodbye America. Glad the majority of my years were spent during the good days.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Justice will not be served unless those who conspired to bring charges against George Zimmerman are charged and tried.


17 posted on 07/10/2013 9:56:46 AM PDT by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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To: Thane_Banquo
I’m sure they have been integral in organizing the coming riots too.

That's what community organizers agitators do.
18 posted on 07/10/2013 9:58:02 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Goodbye America. Glad the majority of my years were spent during the good days.)
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To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
Time for ANOTHER hearing.. Drag Holder before Congress so he can be found in contempt, AGAIN.

HUH? IMPEACH the BASTARD.
19 posted on 07/10/2013 9:58:09 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Nachum

bttt


20 posted on 07/10/2013 10:00:40 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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