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Posted on 07/11/2013 12:06:45 PM PDT by Kaslin
Posted by Judicial Watch, July 10, 2013
Document: DOJ Community Relations Service was deployed to 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.”
Washington, D.C. – Judicial Watch announced today that has obtained documents in response to local, state, and federal records requests revealing that a little-known unit of the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Community Relations Service (CRS), was deployed to Sanford, FL, following the Trayvon Martin shooting to help organize and manage rallies and protests against George Zimmerman.
JW filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requested with the DOJ on April 24, 2012; 125 pages were received on May 30, 2012. JW administratively appealed the request on June 5, 2012, and received 222 pages more on March 6, 2013. According to the documents:
From a Florida Sunshine Law request filed on April 23, 2012, JW received thousands of pages of emails on April 27, 2012, in which was found an email by Miami-Dade County Community Relations Board Program Officer Amy Carswell from April 16, 2012: “Congratulations to our partners, Thomas Battles, Regional Director, and Mildred De Robles, Miami-Dade Coordinator and their co-workers at the U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Service for their outstanding and ongoing efforts to reduce tensions and build bridges of understanding and respect in Sanford, Florida” following a news article in the Orlando Sentinel about the secretive “peacekeepers.”
In reply to that message, Battles said: “Thank you Partner. You did lots of stuff behind the scene to make Miami a success. We will continue to work together.” He signed the email simply Tommy.
Carswell responded: “That’s why we make the big bucks.”
Set up under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the DOJ’s CRS, the employees of which are required by law to “conduct their activities in confidence,” reportedly has greatly expanded its role under President Barack Obama. Though the agency claims to use “impartial mediation practices and conflict resolution procedures,” press reports along with the documents obtained by Judicial Watch suggest that the unit deployed to Sanford, FL, took an active role in working with those demanding the prosecution of Zimmerman.
On April 15, 2012, during the height of the protests, the Orlando Sentinelreported, “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.”
At least it is reassuring that DOJ has been ferreting out the ‘Gentlepeople’ that have been posting all kinds of BS on the Social Enema Channels as to what they are going to do to Z if he is acquitted. (Don’t hold your breath).
Close your eyes and just think what the reaction would be (and how quick they would be discovered) if some of Former Sen Byrd’s (D-WV)’sheet wearing, pointed hat’ friends would have posted that for EVERY White person that got harmed in FL, 10 Blacks would be harmed elsewhere in the country.
I guess I can look for a knock on the door (as long as they don’t just charge in) and catch some flack even here for even thinking I may have been thinking that.
Yeah it does, but no one wants it rattling around in their chest cavity.
;^)
5.56mm
Agencies are allocated money to do certain things — like the EPA to do EPA things.
How did the DOJ justify stirring up civil unrest?
About every thing they have done since January 13, 2008 or around thereabouts has been criminal. Why change now?
I know there will be those who will flame me for slamming Bush on this thread. But it just occured to me yesterday that all of this corrupt crap can be laid at his feet. When he was elected he should have had his AG prosecute the Clintons and on down to every punk who stole a “w” off of a computer keyboard. Instead, he said “Let’s just move forward”. Now every corrupt politician and political appointee can do anything they want and nothing will be done about it. Lie to congress? No problem. Target Tea Party groups? No problem. Spend tax dollars to stir up racial unrest? No problem. Let’s just move forward and see what happens next.
If obama is the AC, W is the great the deceiver.
Remember it is the 0bama administration DOJ. That should tell you all
Since Apr 6, 2013
Nuff said
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