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Feds send 'peacemaker' team to Sanford to address race relations (Trayvon Martin incident)
WOGX-TV ^ | December 4, 2012 | Valerie Boey

Posted on 12/05/2012 3:04:13 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

With race relation issues in Sanford, there's been a secret peacemaker visiting the city. For the first time, the a Sanford project manager is speaking out about it.

When George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin back in February, it sparked plenty of protests, exposing a problem with race relations in the City of Sanford.

"They're not going to go away, so it's not time to be the ostrich in the sand," says Sanford Senior Project Manager Andrew Thomas.

Among all the commotion, there were peacemakers in the crowd, and at least one continues to keep coming back. Thomas says representatives from the U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations team have been visiting at least once a month to improve race relations, while keeping a low profile.

"They're facilitators and mediators and that is not something that they do in the broad open," Thomas says.

We tried contacting the Department of Justice, but no one would grant us an interview. However, they did provide expense reports, which show that they have spent thousands of dollars in Sanford on food and lodging over the last 9 months.

"In order to get people to talk, there has to be some degree of confidentiality. They have to have some degree of anonymity with people if they're gonna come forward and talk."

Thomas says SE Regional Director Tom Battles meets with neighborhood leaders, pastors as well as other people in the community. "They'll walk the streets, knock on doors and talk to people."(continued)

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


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: ericholder; florida; obama; racism; trayvon; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
Sounds like they chose sides from the get-go, doesn't it?
1 posted on 12/05/2012 3:04:31 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They are not facilitators; they are instigators.


2 posted on 12/05/2012 3:13:32 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Black Racism on Steroids

I see they have yet to arrest the Black Ku Klux Klan....er New Black Panthers....for the death threats on Zimmerman. Can you imagine the White Guilt Liberals and Black Racists if some white people put out a “Wanted: Dead or Alive” poster on a black?

I doubt if they are actually doing the smart thing...and telling folks not to burn down their neighborhoods because Zimmerman is innocent.....


3 posted on 12/05/2012 3:15:04 AM PST by SeminoleCounty (Illegal Aliens do not pay Social Security...Employers do)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ve done some reporting on that particular branch of the DOJ.

http://lincolnparishnewsonline.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/jackson-parish-sheriff-andy-brown-we-need-investigators-not-conciliators/

Jackson Parish Sheriff Andy Brown: We Need Investigators, Not Conciliators


4 posted on 12/05/2012 3:15:18 AM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: SeminoleCounty

During the day we have to hold hands, Jews and Blacks after the Crown Heights riot, and at night they vote for black Hitler.

Screw them all, screw THEM ALL and their kumbaya bull crap when it suits their needs and business.

And if it is cover up their NFL players beating and killing women, making their child rapists at Penn State look amicable and good people to potential Nicole Simpsons over there, in order to line their greedy liberal pockets, it is the fault of guns and the fault of Nicole, because she was white and not nice enough, hence we load a black jury.

Screw these people.


6 posted on 12/05/2012 3:21:30 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Peacemakers or Rabble-Rousers and agents provacateurs?
7 posted on 12/05/2012 3:26:15 AM PST by Haiku Guy (If you have a right / To the service I provide / I must be your slave)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"In order to get people to talk, there has to be some degree of confidentiality. They have to have some degree of anonymity with people if they're gonna come forward and talk."

Bull sh!T excuse for a cover up. They use that in family court as a privacy clause. HorseSh!T, this is buying or extorting silence with biscuits payments for silence. This is a hush and suffocate any voicing out of anything out there, a domestic surveillance, covert through and through.

Like all these black people do not vote Obama anyways for pure race reasons. Kumbaya my arse. NEver holding hands with peasants ever. This is all horse hookie.

8 posted on 12/05/2012 3:27:31 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations team...lead by Holder. No need to read any further.


9 posted on 12/05/2012 3:31:57 AM PST by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

holder’s people will walk in and say “hey, we don’t care about facts! this is about RACISM against OUR people!”


10 posted on 12/05/2012 4:02:23 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Here comes bama claus here comes bama claus left down bama claus lane!)
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To: Gaffer

They’re digging for dirt to use against Zimmerman and passing out money in the process.


11 posted on 12/05/2012 4:06:53 AM PST by Track9 (The MSM needs a laugh track)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Ain't no thang. We gonna hang that white mutha' for what he done did."

(Official DOJ stance)

12 posted on 12/05/2012 4:34:24 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (The trouble with the "masses" is that they never achieve the "m")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
What's wrong a little more community organizing?

Mr. niteowl77

13 posted on 12/05/2012 4:37:28 AM PST by niteowl77 (Getting stuck with other peoples' just desserts good and hard for over 50 years.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Obama/Holder Department of Just Us Peacemaker Team arrives.


14 posted on 12/05/2012 4:58:57 AM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
So let me get this straight:

Sanford had Benjamin Crump, his co-conspirators Parks, Natalie Jackson, Jasmine Reed, Ryan Julison, Matt Guttman stirring up racial tension in the community, and instead of sending somebody to put a muzzle on their mouths which were causing the tension, the DOJ sends a team to deal with the symptoms not the cause.

Okay --

15 posted on 12/05/2012 5:03:24 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Orlando Sentinel titles its article today:

"New Zimmerman evidence details his interest in police, alleged racism in Sanford"

The Global Grind posts the same Orlando Sentinel article but retitles it to this:

"Newly Released Evidence Paints Zimmerman As A Racist (DETAILS)"

And not one word of protest from Jeff Weiner who wrote the article.

16 posted on 12/05/2012 5:11:04 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The only “Peacemaker” they need in Sanford is a Colt revolver.


17 posted on 12/05/2012 5:16:18 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What are the Feds doing in Sanford anyway?

This is a local case basically. The only reason it is in national news is because Jesse and Al went down racebaiting.


18 posted on 12/05/2012 5:19:52 AM PST by Venturer
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The Obama administration may have had direct involvement in shaping the Trayvon Martin shooting narrative, including direct involvement in forcing Sanford, FL sheriff Bill Lee to temporarily step down.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/04/18/Spies-Muscle-Holder-Secretive-DOJ-Group-Helped-Oust-Sanford-Florida-Sheriff


19 posted on 12/05/2012 5:27:08 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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