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.
Holder should have been forced out right after he dropped charges against the black racists but now the GOP has done nothing but useless hearings and the media ignores all of Holders corruption,.
Black man can do anything today and get away with it because of white guilty idiots who have no brains to understand a word they like to shout and that is equality.
we are all equal.
Rush is reading this on the air as I type.
Check this out. .
Clearly, the Obama DOJ/MSM was looking for their Norma McCorvey-Jane Roe to go after Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law, but miscalculated the level of scrutiny that would be generated by their political theatre.
It’s getting near time for “the fire next time” - the patriot version.
force this piece of racist S@@@ out , I;m sick of fast and furious, dropping charges to racists, my people, lying, and lying and all we get is useless hearings by Issa.
Force this racist out
No it’s not. Appointing people who are not held accountable for ANYTHING to high offices was a fatal mistake for America. The Civil Rights Act is responsible for this, because it created ‘protected classes’ who can willfully destroy America and be allowed to do so with impunity.
massgopguy ~:” Now THIS is a Reichtag Fire.”
THis PROVES this administration is RACIST !
Now will ‘everyone is a great American’ Hannity have his ‘friends’ on to give them a voice to twist it all?
Which bastard, Holder or Zippy?
I'd be thrilled with a twofer.
Rush is talking about this now!
It's bad enough to abuse power to influence a criminal trial, but to do so by whipping up racial tensions...criminal in itself.
Yet our team will do nothing about it.
Taxpayers beware, the race hustlers are using your money to promote hate.
Does this mean that the trial judge’s strings are being pulled from Washington?
why does this not surprise me?
Justice is Blind. The Department of Justice, not so much.
Hannity is such an establishment tool, why anyone on here watches him and adds to his viewership or listens to him is beyond me.
Great American my ass, he;s an elitist establishment mouth piece, next on about this will be Rove
Never let a crisis go to waste!
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