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Newly Released Documents Detail the Dept of Justice’s Role in Organizing Trayvon Martin Protests
PJ Tatler ^ | July 10, 2013 | Bryan Preston

Posted on 07/10/2013 9:47:53 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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 withing 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.

As the Zimmerman trial winds down, the threat of race riots should he be acquitted have risen.


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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Justice Department, and the Attorney General, the chief law enforcement officer in the land, spent taxpayer dollars to gin up a lynch mob
against a man charged with no crime at the time? This is the most stunning
abuse of the police power of the state I have ever witnessed. And John Mitchell
is the disgraced Attorney General—phewy? This is the United States of America. Your
top cop does not agitate mobs and foment bloodlust against a private citizen. These are black klan tactics and it’s illegal. For another, it is such a breach of the public
trust and exposes the rancid stench of gangsterism that pervades this callow
administration.

Eric Holder is the most corrupt political appointee I have ever seen. He should be run through the streets. Then tossed in prison. For the AG of the United States of America to sic a klan mob of professional race mongers on a man presumed innocent falls under the category “high crimes and misdemeanors.”


261 posted on 07/11/2013 8:14:39 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: .45 Long Colt

They didn’t care if they left one. This shows how bad the system is. They fear no accountability for their actions.


262 posted on 07/11/2013 9:03:06 AM PDT by Necrovore (Lu"gen offenbahren Kontrolle)
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To: Thane_Banquo
I’m sure they have been integral in organizing the coming riots too.

According to the organization the US Department of Justice sent teams of Community Relations Service workers to the Trayvon Martin neighborhood in Florida and got proactive.
"Though CRS purports to spot and quell racial tensions nationwide before they arise, the documents obtained by Judicial Watch show the group actively worked to foment unrest, spending thousands of taxpayer dollars on travel and hotel rooms to train protestors throughout Florida.

263 posted on 07/11/2013 10:10:04 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
If the DOJ is actively organizing protests, then they were surely in communication with Angela Whorey and the attempted 'child abuse' charge.

ANGELA: "Oh, please PLEASE Mr. Holder, you gotta help me avoid RIOTS, PLEEEEEEEEEZ!!!! Find something!!"

HOLDER: "Don't worry Angela.. If Zimmerman is found not guilty, we have Federal Civil Rights charges against him ready to go."

264 posted on 07/11/2013 10:30:45 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As surprised as when the Sun rose in the East.


265 posted on 07/11/2013 10:58:37 AM PDT by RipSawyer (I was born on Earth, what planet is this?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Change we can belive in... Believe it.....


266 posted on 07/11/2013 2:21:50 PM PDT by Typical_Whitey (Remember America "The FIsh Rots From the Head Down")
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To: All

I say it again...Blacks look out for Blacks. There are exceptions, but they are few. That’s the game. They look out for their own, and if whites do it, its racist.

And now I have an open question for anyone that wants to answer it: Anyone watching this case and who is honest and gives any kind of a damn of law vs. emotion knows there is no case here. Nothing, and there never was. But, if as a result of political pressure, there is a conviction...how can white people continue to be integrated with black people? When the name of the game now is that anytime there is a conflict between “white” or in this case “half white”, and black, no matter the evidence, the public “outrage” on behalf of the black community, fueled by race pimps, fueled by the media can and will cause the white person to be convicted regardless of the evidence...how do whites live in that society?


267 posted on 07/11/2013 8:09:18 PM PDT by SoCalTransplant (Wake me when we get to the part where we alter or abolish it.)
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To: Uncle Chip

Ding, Ding, Ding! We have a winner. My point was...if these people are so pissed off...why don’t they start a riot today?! The rhetorical answer is that they’re not getting paid! these “folks” don’t do nothing without getting paid


268 posted on 07/11/2013 8:34:04 PM PDT by gr8eman (Ron Swanson for President!)
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To: SoCalTransplant

The answer to your question is obvious. Repeat after me...”WHITE GUILT”...the most successful mass brainwashing to ever occur in the history of the world. More than Caesar...more than Hitler. It alone will destroy this country. The only question is where the pieces fall!


269 posted on 07/11/2013 8:38:25 PM PDT by gr8eman (Ron Swanson for President!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama’s theme during his last campaign was “Revenge.”

If you have worked hard all your life, saved your money, invested wisely, obeyed the rules and are white, you are now an enemy of the state. Is this apartheid?


270 posted on 07/11/2013 9:15:38 PM PDT by mom.mom
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To: gr8eman

So do you think whites take it until its to the point they can not resist?

I mean, there are two choices as I see it. Either conservative whites figure it out and separate, while still in control of a majority of the military and police, and have the guns to do so or wait around until the Dems successfully dilute those institutions and erode gun rights until there is no way to resist.

I’ll be honest, I dont know which way it will go. But agree that stupid, guilty whites are the biggest problem.


271 posted on 07/11/2013 9:20:27 PM PDT by SoCalTransplant (Wake me when we get to the part where we alter or abolish it.)
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To: mom.mom

Were the “downtrodden” in South Africa armed to the teeth with 500+ million firearms and trillions of rounds of ammunition?


272 posted on 07/11/2013 9:23:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's next run. What'll you do?)
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To: gr8eman
My point was...if these people are so pissed off...why don’t they start a riot today?! The rhetorical answer is that they’re not getting paid! these “folks” don’t do nothing without getting paid

Find a way to sabotage the EBT cards, and you can test that theory.

273 posted on 07/11/2013 9:28:26 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

The bastards don’t even try to conceal it!


274 posted on 07/12/2013 1:25:06 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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