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DOJ civil-rights probe in Zimmerman-Trayvon case continues (WHAT?!)
The Orlando Sentinel ^ | August 20, 2014 | Rene Stutzman

Posted on 08/20/2014 5:37:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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In Washington 21/2 years ago, the nation's top civil-rights enforcer, Thomas Perez at the U.S. Department of Justice, sat down with Sanford's mayor, city manager and U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown and promised to investigate whether Trayvon Martin was the victim of something more heinous than a homicide.

Was he also the victim of a killer intent on harming him because he was black?

That was March 20, 2012. The Department of Justice still has no answer to that question.

Civil-rights investigators are due back in Central Florida this week to continue their work on the case.

The agency has repeatedly refused to discuss what it has unearthed, whom it is talking to and when the investigation will conclude.

But two people with ties to the case report they've recently been in touch with the department or the FBI, the legmen sometimes used by the DOJ.

One is Frank Taaffe, a former friend of George Zimmerman's. The Neighborhood Watch volunteer killed Trayvon, an unarmed black 17-year-old, in Sanford on Feb. 26, 2012.

Taaffe was interviewed last month by two DOJ civil-rights attorneys and an FBI agent in Maitland, he said, and they've asked for another interview this week.

He has not agreed to talk this time, he said....

(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: dojtrayvon; ericholder; injusticedepartment; justusdepartment; nifongism; obama; partisanwitchhunt; trayvon; zimmerman
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Their internal polls for November must be much worse than they're letting on if they're beating this dead horse in addition to Ferguson, supposed impeachment and all the other shiny objects they're waving at the LIVs.
1 posted on 08/20/2014 5:37:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Gotta make the black community feel wanted again after their anger at the Dems over the illegal immigration issue.


2 posted on 08/20/2014 5:40:44 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A white guy defending himself is now raaaacist, didn’t anyone get the memo?


3 posted on 08/20/2014 5:41:20 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee! First one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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This DOJ under Eric the Red is totally out of control. It is staffed with racists and ethnic bigots who are hell-bent on taking this country down a dark alley of hatred and chaos.


4 posted on 08/20/2014 5:42:15 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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Oh give it a rest!


5 posted on 08/20/2014 5:43:15 PM PDT by mylife
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This is actually funny. The only thing they have to drive their black slaves to the polls is white (or white-Hispanic) boogey-men.


6 posted on 08/20/2014 5:44:18 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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I’ve been predicting for months that Holder will charge Zimmerman with civil rights crimes in October this year, just in time for the elections..

Especially now, since the Brown thing will die down a bit by then, he can then re-ignite it


7 posted on 08/20/2014 5:45:06 PM PDT by digger48
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George Zimmerman’s Black Ancestry is Revealed
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2876811/posts

George Zimmerman: the black, Hispanic, Peruvian, kind-hearted non-white, not-racist poster boy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2876692/posts

George Zimmerman Has ‘Black Roots’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2876518/posts


8 posted on 08/20/2014 5:45:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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The Dems are campaigning on the “law be ray-ciss” meme all day, every day.


9 posted on 08/20/2014 5:45:49 PM PDT by SecondAmendment (Restoring our Republic at 9.8357x10^8 FPS)
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That they are.
I expect that drum beat to get worse.


10 posted on 08/20/2014 5:46:25 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee! First one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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Why is Zimmerman not in his mother’s home country? I would imagine he has citizenship there.


11 posted on 08/20/2014 5:46:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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When these “civil rights investigators” aren’t busy “probing” each other, they’re squeezing every nickel they can out of the U.S. taxpayers. We’ve got way too many idiots working for the U.S. government with too much free time on their hands.


12 posted on 08/20/2014 5:50:53 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America is not a refugee camp! It's my home!)
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If you knew how much they were getting paid, you’d cry.


13 posted on 08/20/2014 5:51:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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I don’t think this will ever happen. A civil trial suit will open up all the details about St. Trayvon’s violent tendencies and gansta-wannabe lifestyle.


14 posted on 08/20/2014 5:53:09 PM PDT by tacticalogic
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Get Whitey Holder is a raciss.


15 posted on 08/20/2014 5:53:42 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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This is exactly what I was saying in the other thread about innocence being more effective at stirring up their base than a conviction would be.


16 posted on 08/20/2014 5:56:34 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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They’re not talking about a civil trial, like when OJ was successfully sued after the criminal jury exonerated him, they’re talking about charging George Zimmerman with federal charges of violating Trayvon Martin’s civil rights and related crimes.


17 posted on 08/20/2014 6:00:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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They’re not talking about a civil trial, like when OJ was successfully sued after the criminal jury exonerated him, they’re talking about charging George Zimmerman with federal charges of violating Trayvon Martin’s civil rights and related crimes.

After it's already been determined that he acted in self-defense? Good luck with that.

18 posted on 08/20/2014 6:05:08 PM PDT by tacticalogic
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I would imagine he has citizenship there.

Why would he have citizenship there? I thought he grew up around Sanford there. Isn't his father a lawyer there in town?

19 posted on 08/20/2014 6:13:19 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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It’s not the outcome of the trial Holder is interested in.

It’s the announcement of the charges being filed and the media replaying all of the lies just in time for the election.


20 posted on 08/20/2014 6:14:22 PM PDT by digger48
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