Posted on 07/22/2013 3:07:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Al Sharpton’s proud of himself.
He’s helped put the country through a week of turmoil over a jury’s verdict; he’s pushed himself to the forefront of national attention.
He’s even gotten the president of the United States to weigh in publicly on the George Zimmerman verdict – sans teleprompter – in an ostensibly impromptu speech to reporters that made national news throughout the weekend
And yet, the Rev. Al remains unassuming.
As a guest on the network where he hosts his own evening talk show, Sharpton appeared Monday with MSNBC’s Craig Melvin to modestly say his own piddling efforts to keep the Zimmerman case simmering weren’t aimed at the president – far from it – only at trying to change the laws of democratically elected legislatures throughout the land to a manner more suited to the Reverend’s liking.
When Melvin asked how it was that President Obama came to be pressured to making a statement on the Zimmerman acquittal, Sharpton responded basically, shucks, warn’t nothing but some democratic activism in action.
“I helped organize a lot of the outrage around this,” Sharpton said. “None of it was focused on pushing the president. It was pushing legislation and pushing the criminal justice system.”
And if that means pushing the Department of Justice, under Attorney General Eric Holder, to put an innocent man through another legal gauntlet, well, the Rev. Al is down with that too.
“We did not need the president to pre-empt the Justice Department,” Sharpton said.
In fact, it might even be counterproductive, he said.
Given the president’s involvement, Sharpton said, some people might think a continued Justice Department investigation of Zimmerman is based on “politics.”
Who in the world would think that? And why?
Check out the Rev. here.
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Rock on, Alfred, rock on.
I read Al owes the IRS $2.6 million in back taxes. Al has also been meeting with the admitted foreign born twice unconstitutionally elected POTUS lately.
WHUTever could they have been talking about?
“Ya know Al...I have this little problem called Benghazi, and as you know the IRS does what ever I say.......”
A reverend only the Left could love.
That’s because Al Sharpton (former Democrat PRESIDENTIAL contender) is a racist bigot crook.
Such a righteous man of God the Revrund is.
Just a professional rectum - one of many - much beloved by the left.
What outrage? Nobody cares, you vile pig.
Al Sharpton, my kind of nigga...
It’s ok to say that..
Ref:
JEANTEL: People… The whole world say it’s a racist word. My… My you… Around 2000, that was not… They change it around, I think. It start spelling it n-i-g-g-a. Nigga!
MORGAN: What does that mean to you, that way of spelling it? What does that word mean to you?
JEANTEL: That mean a male.
MORGAN: A black male?
JEANTEL: No! Any kind of male.
MORGAN: Black or white?
JEANTEL: Any kind. Chinese could say, “Nigga!” “That’s my chino nigga.” They can say that.
Al Sharpton should more carefully consider the causes he lends his support to. One would have thought that “Reverend Al” would have learned something from the fallout of the Tawana Brawley hoax.
The February 2012 shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin might never have happened if school officials in Miami-Dade County had not instituted an unofficial policy of treating crimes as school disciplinary infractions. Revelations that emerged from an internal affairs investigation explain why Martin was not arrested when caught at school with stolen jewelry in October 2011 or with marijuana in February 2012. Instead, the teenager was suspended from school, the last time just days before he was shot dead by George Zimmerman.
Trayvon Martin was not from Sanford, the town north of Orlando where he was shot in 2012 and where a jury acquitted Zimmerman of murder charges Saturday. Martin was from Miami Gardens, more than 200 miles away, and had come to Sanford to stay with his father’s girlfriend Brandy Green at her home in the townhouse community where Zimmerman was in charge of the neighborhood watch. Trayvon was staying with Green after he had been suspended for the second time in six months from Krop High School in Miami-Dade County, where both his father, Tracy Martin, and mother, Sybrina Fulton, lived.
Both of Trayvon’s suspensions during his junior year at Krop High involved crimes that could have led to his prosecution as a juvenile offender. However, Chief Charles Hurley of the Miami-Dade School Police Department (MDSPD) in 2010 had implemented a policy that reduced the number of criminal reports, manipulating statistics to create the appearance of a reduction in crime within the school system. Less than two weeks before Martin’s death, the school system commended Chief Hurley for “decreasing school-related juvenile delinquency by an impressive 60 percent for the last six months of 2011.” What was actually happening was that crimes were not being reported as crimes, but instead treated as disciplinary infractions.
In October 2011, after a video surveillance camera caught Martin writing graffiti on a door, MDSPD Office Darryl Dunn searched Martin’s backpack, looking for the marker he had used. Officer Dunn found 12 pieces of women’s jewelry and a man’s watch, along with a flathead screwdriver the officer described as a “burglary tool.” The jewelry and watch, which Martin claimed he had gotten from a friend he refused to name, matched a description of items stolen during the October 2011 burglary of a house on 204th Terrace, about a half-mile from the school. However, because of Chief Hurley’s policy “to lower the arrest rates,” as one MDSPD sergeant said in an internal investigation, the stolen jewelry was instead listed as “found property” and was never reported to Miami-Dade Police who were investigating the burglary. Similarly, in February 2012 when an MDSPD officer caught Martin with a small plastic bag containing marijuana residue, as well as a marijuana pipe, this was not treated as a crime, and instead Martin was suspended from school.
Either of those incidents could have put Trayvon Martin into the custody of the juvenile justice system. However, because of Chief Hurley’s attempt to reduce the school crime statistics - according to sworn testimony, officers were “basically told to lie and falsify” reports - Martin was never arrested. And if he had been arrested, he might never have been in Sanford the night of his fatal encounter with Zimmerman.
In fact, the reason Zimmerman was patrolling the townhouse community the night of the February 2012 shooting was that there had been a rash of burglaries in the neighborhood, although there was no indication that Trayvon Martin was involved in any of those crimes.
As for Chief Hurley’s policy, it was the controversy over Martin’s death that accidentally exposed it. In March 2012, the Miami Herald reported on Martin’s troubled history of disciplinary incidents at Krop High. Chief Hurley then launched the internal affairs investigation in an attempt to find out who had provided information to the reporter. During the course of that investigation, MDSPD officers and supervisors described Chief Hurley’s policy of not reporting crimes by students. Chief Hurley was subsequently accused of sexually harassing two female subordinates. He resigned in February, about a year after Trayvon Martin’s death.
Woulda, shoulda, coulda. This was a thug in training, and he was doing well in his studies.
Al won’t be happy until he kills —again.
Pointing out that Racist Sharpton owes enough back taxes to get 99% of Americans jail time is racist.
Pray for America to Wake Up
Except for an article on some “scuffles” in Houston, I haven’t seen ANYTHING (or heard anything on Fox) about how the “demonstrations” went. Were there “dozens” of faux-outrage-protestors or “millions”? Or any?
How come Aaron Hernandez killing that amateur football player who is black isn’t considered as ‘racist’? Or only who the media says is racist? Buncha morons in this nation.
And if you live long enough that criminal justice system just may catch up to you.
“Sharpton became an ordained minister in the Pentecostal church at the age of 10.”
“In 1963 Sharpton’s father left his wife to have a relationship with Al Sharpton’s half-sister.”
Brag on, Al. You will stand before the true Judge one day. I doubt He will buy your social justice memes. As scripture states, “God will not be mocked.”
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