Posted on 07/21/2013 7:21:59 AM PDT by NCjim
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 within 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.
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These CRS people and their bosses, the DOJ primaries that detailed them for this should all be in prison for incitement to riot.
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No surprise the people that post here knew all along those two thugs were behind this..They were wishing for riots so they could bring out the big guns and start grabbing guns and killing Americans..
If any of these state governments were worth anything, they’d be obtaining names from facial recognition software of the protesters and investigating which ones are DOJ employees.
The Government and the Media conspiring to hang an innocent man.
There is a law against mixing religion and Government.
There should be one against mixing Government and the Media.
Is the DOJ — even now — using taxpayer funds to “finance” all the fake protests we’ve seen AFTER the verdict?
Can Sanford sue the DOJ for the increase in cost caused by these demonstrations. I sure do not want a increase in my taxes because of the DOJ.
“duh”
Good work, Judicial watch! They deserve our financial support — they give lots of bang for the buck.
I was watching SeeBullSh@t Sunday Morning magazine show.....they were “good enough” to carry reports on Black Outrage re Trayvon and as a bonus ran a long report on the Black young man who was shot in the back while face down... by a White rapid transit policeman (of course) in the San Francisco (Fruitland was the stop, no kidding).
I suppose they plan a month of Black on White murders and rapes in the near future./s
I can understand how the government might consider organizing a demonstration in order to preclude a more unpredictable demonstration being organized by someone else.
But it is way over the line to bus students to a barricade protest with the intention of having a city police chief removed. These are brownshirts.
It’s starting to become more and more obvious why this “Trayvon” thing popped up all of a sudden out of nowhere and was pimped so hard by the ‘RAT politicians and their toads in the “media”. This isn’t and has never been about Trayvon Martin. Never. It’s about “back door” gun control and taking away the right to self defense from Americans.
Holy Shiite!
I’d rather be worked, clothed, and fed poorly by my white plantation owner openly than USED AND TRICKED BY BROTHER ERIC FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES.
We have a professional overseer administration.
Black people, WAKE UP. This is worse than outright racism.
So, you’re saying that Eric Holder is the real cracker in all this, being the overseer cracking the whip?
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