Posted on 07/16/2013 11:11:58 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Illinois Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez is calling for Judiciary Committee hearings on the shooting death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin.
In a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, Gutierrez wrote that the committee must hold hearings on the matter “as soon as possible.”
“When any child is gunned down and no one goes to jail, it is incumbent on lawmakers at the highest level of government to investigate whether justice has been done, whether the underlying law is just, and whether federal legislation could help avoid another tragic death like the death of Trayvon Martin,” Gutierrez wrote.
George Zimmerman was acquitted of all charges on Saturday in the death of Martin, after his attorneys argued self-defense.
According to Gutierrez, a member of the Judiciary Committee, Martin’s shooting death “undermines the rule of law, erodes community trust in law enforcement, and exemplify just how dangerous the combination of rampant fear and easily available guns can be,” he wrote. “Even as crime has gone down across the nation, fear of crime, fear of violence, and fear of fellow Americans seems to be ever increasing.”
Gutierrez went on in his letter to address the distrust he says working-class communities have toward law enforcement, pointing out that it took two months for law enforcement to make an arrest in Martin’s death.
He also criticized Goodlatte and the Judiciary Committee for passing the SAFE Act through committee, which would allow states and localities to enforce federal immigration laws as a means to improve interior immigration enforcement.
“There is a widespread feeling in many poor and working-class communities that the police are not there to serve them. The Judiciary Committee recently passed legislation you co-authored to drive an even greater wedge between local police and the communities they serve by turning all police into immigration enforcement officers and criminalizing millions of immigrants and their families,” Gutierrez wrote.
The Illinois Democrat further pointed to guns and the gun industry as another issue the committee should take on but “scarcely has anything to say about it.”
“I note with great sadness that Mr. Martin was just one of hundreds and hundreds of children we have lost to guns,” Gutierrez wrote. “There is no reason in a modern society to accept the sale, marketing, and widespread proliferation of guns as a means for killing other human beings and our laws should reflect that fact.”
Gutierrez’s goal, he concluded is to examine “the panoply of questions left unanswered as George Zimmerman goes free and the Trayvon Martin family mourns.”
Maybe they want to charge Trayvon Martin posthumously for the hate crime of beating up a guy Martin thought was a gay rapist.
Forget Trayvon and Zimm. They are like Mungo, “Pawns in the game of life.” Repeat after me:
LEFTISTS SEEKING MORE CONTROL.
LEFTISTS SEEKING MORE CONTROL.
LEFTISTS SEEKING MORE CONTROL.
LEFTISTS SEEKING MORE CONTROL.
LEFTISTS SEEKING MORE CONTROL.
LEFTISTS SEEKING MORE CONTROL.
This idiot does not seem to know that Chicago is in his state.
Great idear huh? We’re certainly gettin’ our moneys worth out of these asshats.
If someone must go to jail in this matter, then by all means, feel free to jail Martin’s corpse.
These people just won’t be satified until they can generate Mississippi burning on a national scale. They have set out to divide and destroy this country and they do NOT care about the consequences of their words and actions.
They WANT this. They NEED this.
Luis Gutierrez, another hispanic throwing Zimmerman under the bus.
I wish the Democrats would STOP with their ‘War on Women’ jurors.
the irony of an illinois democrat calling this for attention in the house is just hilarious.,....you might wanna look at chicago and your own state first you muppet.
When even our lawmakers have no understanding of what appropriately occurred in a court of law, we are in deep trouble, people....
Trust my experience as a retired high school teacher, the term "child" is merely a legal point.
I have had 16 year olds already working on their third strike (felony tried as an adult).
I've had female students with three children and they aren't even 18 years old yet.
They know more about sex, drugs and guns than the prosecutors in our community
Yep - I’m guessing this guy hasn’t issued a peep about the “children” being “gunned down” on a literal daily basis in Chicago.
The race industry has it all on the line. They must be destroyed - Tawana Brawley Sharpton, Hymie-town Jackson, Black Panther thugs
There were 5 children killed by gunfire in Chicago during the Zimmerman trial. One was a 5 year old boy.
Is a black life only valuable if it is taken in self-defense by a “White Hispanic?”
Rave on, Luis, it’s a crazy feelin!
When are the hearing on something that is a real crime like the IRS?
How about we call for more Holder hearings, he’s already lied to Congress and needs to be Jailed!
:: When any child is gunned down and no one goes to jail, it is incumbent on lawmakers at the highest level of government to investigate whether justice has been done ::
So, Luis, who is leading the congressional investigation for the 5-year-old shot in a drive by shooting this weekend in Chicago?
See...child gunned down...no one goes to jail...
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