Posted on 04/11/2012 1:09:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Attorney General Eric Holder called the death of Trayvon Martin a “pain no parent should have to endure,” and said that the Justice Department has a high bar to cross to bring a federal hate crime case against George Zimmerman.
“For a federal hate crime, we have to prove the highest standard in the law it is something that was reckless, that was negligent,” Holder said at a news conference. “We have to show that there was a specific intent to do the crime with the requisite state of mind.”
Asked by ABC News’ Pierre Thomas about his reaction to the murder of Martin as a parent, Holder said, “People have reacted to this on a number of levels. I mean as a parent, I reacted to it [as] this is a pain that no parent should have to endure. The notion of having to bury a child is something that is, I think, in some ways for a parent the ultimate pain, so there was that reaction.”
“We also have, I think, a reaction that is based on issues we have faced in this nation over the years. It brings to the surface many of those issues, so there was that reaction as well,” Holder said....
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
But the Chief of Police in Baltimore says there is no evidence of hate crimes in the widely circulated beating of the white tourist by a mob of black ‘youths’.
Well, it looks like this election cycle is going to be all Trayvon, all the time.
I hate Eric Holder... is that a crime?
And as my late father - and retired policeman - was wont to say in cases like this, “he probably couldn’t find Mae West in a phone booth...”
boohoo
its so hard to prove a thought crime... we should make it easier.... waaahhh
What does that reptile know about the “highest standard in the law”?
Not necessarilty but it is racist.
Might be difficult but I’m sure that this shameful excuse for a government will find a way.
So Eric, what about border patrol agent Brian Terry?
Go to hell, Holder. You dangerous pandering bastard.
lol. By far the best version of that idiom I’ve ever heard...
Ditto
And notice who was right on top of reporting it... ABC
This just in: Zimmerman will be charged with violating the city noise ordinance by discharging a firearm within city limits!
I’m sure Reverend Eric Holder Wright will find a way to get over that bar if he doesn’t get the unfair trial result in Florida that he wants.
They at least serve a useful biotic function.
You don’t understand, it’s DIFFERENT when white parents have to bury their child.
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