Posted on 11/04/2013 6:37:41 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday said the Justice Department has not decided whether to file federal civil rights charges against George Zimmerman in the 2012 killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
Zimmerman, a volunteer neighborhood watchman who shot and killed Martin in an incident that captured national interest, was acquitted of murder charges in July. But the Justice Department could still pursue a federal civil rights case.
Holder said the agencys investigation is under way.
I'm not sure exactly how much longer that will take, but we will get to a point where we are able to make a determination, he told reporters at an unrelated news conference at the agencys headquarters.
Holder, during an April speech to Al Sharptons National Action Network, pledged to take appropriate action if the agency finds evidence of a potential federal civil rights crime in the Zimmerman case.
However, he has since cautioned that the Justice Department faces a very high barrier in pursuing federal criminal charges in such cases.
On Monday, he noted that the courts had already weighed in Zimmermans case.
"The case of George Zimmerman and what happens there I think a substantial part was resolved in the case that was tried," Holder said.
Bush became dispised by the Left and the Right both because he routinely screwed both.
Every presidential election year the Democrats have to do something to rile up the black voters. In 1992 it was the Rodney King incident, in 2000 it was the fake scare of black churches in the south being set on fire, in 2004 it was the blaming of George W. Bush in the James Byrd dragging death because W. didn’t pass a hate crimes bill, and 2012 was all about Trayvon Martin. Next year is going to be a tough year for the Dems so they need something to raise the black people’s blood pressure.
Where did he get the gun and where did he get the money?
If they tried this it would be gloves off, no more poor little Trayvon. Every bit of dirt would be coming out on Trayvon, mamma and daddy and Trayvon’s thug connections.
Not a peep about Lois Lerner’s multiple felonies, of course.
“Holder: Trayvon charges still possible”
Good idea! Dig him up and bury him in a prison cemetery!
Hey Holder remember this. Charges are still possible.
Cripes, Martin owned a better gun than Zimmerman!
If this all weren’t so serious, I would be laughing right now. Holder knows he legally has nothing to stand on. If there was, he’d have pursued charges the minute Zimmerman was found not guilty. It’s about drumming up support for a failing administration in the most feeble and obvious means imaginable.
Goodness, 2016 can NOT get here soon enough!
I wonder how Holder’s office would react to a white community organizer group with military style apparel and berets standing outide the polling places. My guess would be complete hysteria from the MSM 24/7 and mounting up of the brownshirt DHS military force Obama has been assembling, probably driving up in those brown APCs with brownshirt soldiers armed with AR-15’s, M4’s, and M203 tear gas launchers, carrying part of the 1.6 billion rounds that’s missing...just a wild guess
No doubt about it.
My first thought too but have you ever been in Peru? I have. Lima is the capital. After the Spanish had raped and pillage and stolen the gold and generally made life miserable for the Indians, they asked them where to found the capital. The Indians told them to put it where it now is. It is a desert with very little water anywhere around. It never rains and its always cloudy. It is one of the unhealthiest places on the planet. On the rare and I’m talking maybe once every three hundred years that it does rain, it floods. Its flat. It smells like fish. You can’t leave your windshield wipers on your car because they will be stolen. My sister in laws house in a “nice” suburb had a high fence around it. Two or three lean-tos were up against the outside housing more people than lived in the house. I could go on. Or, you can live in the Andes where poverty is extreme and you can’t breathe. Or you can live in the jungle, but anyway, you get the picture.
No wonder his mother left, huh?
Now, THAT would REALLY be double jeopardy.
YOU guys go to Peru if you think it's Utopia.
Leni
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