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.
The CRS and riots is a case of job justification.
The threat of riots is designed to put money in CRS pockets to spread around to make them go away.
If riots occur then its because there wasn’t enough money to pay the rioters not to appear.
If riots don’t happen it’s because the CRS tamped it down and the program should be expanded.
As you look in the courtroom behind the Martins, those pastors back there are CRS and are being paid federal dollars to be there.
If he manages to do so Zero and Holder need to be the first casualties
I wonder what would happen if media made an effort to report this to the American people, every day for a week or so? ... Yeah, I know, magic thinking
I shouldn't be, but actually, I am, and furthermore, I am OUTRAGED!
Legally, what can be done?
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Another day...another outrage. I told my wife several weeks ago that if Zimmerman is acquitted I completely expect that Holder’s DoJ will immediately file civil rights violation charges against him.
Zimmerman must be destroyed to become an example to the sheeple. The perpetual violence of the black underclass must be accepted as a part of “the new order.”
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By forcing a trial and appointing a special prosecutor, Rick Scott didn't "defuse" anything. Instead, he is accountable for having given the left time to organize bigger riots on a national scale. His mistake is in assuming that the left cares about the evidence of the case. They don't.
This projection of rationality characteristic of Republicans is their downfall. Decent people taught to "love their neighbor" simply cannot fathom Americans so dedicated to evil as are the Marxist operatives of the Slave Party. This constant political mugging belies the fable that it takes two to make a fight.
Outrageous.
Bill Ayers wants his race war from 1970s...
One way or another...
This is not The United States of America.
Great post.. Thank you!
Now THIS is a Reichtag Fire.
Sadly, no.
Fish rots from the head. In this case, the head is a racist Attorney General.
will CNN, MSNBC, OX, NBC, CBS, ABC, now run with this as their first story, course F-in not.
Sick of the media letting this regime and corruption go and do anything they want while the millions of Americans have no idea what the hell is going on.
Have you seen this?
Rush Limbaugh reading this live on air now...
Rush is on this now.
(from the article):”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. “
Add the US “Just-Us Dept. “ to the list of lawsuits and specify the chief law enforcement officer for being ‘unlawful’, and inciting discord .
What else would you expect from this administration ?
This reminds me of journalism , whereby media doesn’t report the news , they CREATE it for their own purposes.
The “Just-Us” Department , rather than truely investigating the situation have actually been creating ‘in-justice ‘, with receipts !
This trial has been a media frenzy - now we know why - its the administration’s agenda !
And then people wonder why you can’t trust Govt. !!
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