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Newly Released Documents Detail the Dept of Justice’s Role in Organizing Trayvon Martin Protests
PJ Tatler ^ | July 10, 2013 | Bryan Preston

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.


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To: Toespi

WHEN DOES THIS NIGHTMARE END?


Never. It will only get worse.


141 posted on 07/10/2013 11:18:35 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

I have a feeling it may carry more weight once the riots begin. Maybe the networks will mention it.


142 posted on 07/10/2013 11:18:43 AM PDT by EnquiringMind
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Figures. I am curious about a guy who seems to sit in the front row of the gallery everyday with the same expression. He is balding with silver grey hair. , Wonder who he is?


143 posted on 07/10/2013 11:21:37 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

OK, we have the upcoming race riots planned pretty well. Let’s see, $5,000 for gasoline and containers for IID (improvised incendiary devices), $1,000 for clubs and baseball bats, $2,000 for 50 cubic yards of large rocks, $1,000 for fabric to make bandanas and face masks, $10,000 for cells phones and radios to keep all or the forces organized, $25,000 for Skittles and Drinks for protesters. We are also sending out updates on which stores to bomb and where the liquor and large screen TVs are. Oh, yeah, pharmacies as well. Anything I’ve missed here?

Uh, no. We aren’t going to talk about the guns and ammo. That is on a different budget handled by our immigration/gun-grab section.


144 posted on 07/10/2013 11:21:44 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Community Organizers at work.


145 posted on 07/10/2013 11:22:26 AM PDT by sweetiepiezer
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To: Born to Conserve

You are 100% correct...lots and lots of bad things have to happen first. Think 1862 type of things.....


146 posted on 07/10/2013 11:24:44 AM PDT by rightwingextremist1776
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To: EnquiringMind

I have a feeling it may carry more weight once the riots begin. Maybe the networks will mention it.


The media is counting on riots. They want riots if for no other reason than entertainment value to jack up ratings.


147 posted on 07/10/2013 11:24:49 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If this is true, we now have the DO”J”
actively helping narcoterrorists, al Qaeda,
and sponsoring RACE WAR.

This will not end well, and it is directly
Holder-the-Corrupt’s fault.


148 posted on 07/10/2013 11:25:22 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: Irenic
This is not The United States of America.

This the Socialist Caliphate of the Western Hemisphere.

Hawaii is going to split off, and Obama will move there and become President of Hawaii.

Alaska will be absorbed by Canada.

North America and South America will join to become the new Caliphate.

Hopefully, Canada will declare war on the new Caliphate, and we can all become 'partisans'.

149 posted on 07/10/2013 11:25:24 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All

Direct link to Judicial Watch:

http://www.judicialwatch.org/bulletins/doj-sends-secret-peacekeepers-where-trayvon-martin-was-killed/


150 posted on 07/10/2013 11:28:20 AM PDT by FBD (My carbon footprint is bigger than yours)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Have we already forgotten ACORN, one of the first community organizers? Now we have the community organizer in chief acting as president.


151 posted on 07/10/2013 11:29:09 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: txhurl

He could be. I am convinced that Rush (or one of his researchers) consults FR for opinions, news flashes, etc.. I’ve heard Rush make comments or share insights on events that I’ve seen ONLY here on FR.


152 posted on 07/10/2013 11:30:07 AM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

mass lynchings are justified

disruption of justice is a crime against the republic


153 posted on 07/10/2013 11:30:50 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Who will shoot Liberty Valence?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I don't wear tinfoil, but every pistol, rifle and shotgun I own is fully loaded, just waiting for the verdict now.

I have no idea how bad or not this is going to go down.

154 posted on 07/10/2013 11:32:26 AM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Trey Gowdy......Nuff said.)
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To: the_Watchman
Directly off the DOJ website:

Created by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, CRS is the only Federal agency dedicated to assist State and local units of government, private and public organizations, and community groups with preventing and resolving racial and ethnic tensions, incidents, and civil disorders, and in restoring racial stability and harmony.

They are fanning the flames and doing anything BUT resolving tensions and restoring stability and harmony.

155 posted on 07/10/2013 11:33:39 AM PDT by EnquiringMind
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To: sweetiepiezer

Let’s be more specific(truthful).

Community RABELROUSERS.


156 posted on 07/10/2013 11:34:41 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Head of the DO"J" (hero of al Qaeda and Mexican narcoterrorists):
"Zimmerman was treated like any other cracker
with a gutter Jew-name.
The cracker was Koran shy, and now he must die."

157 posted on 07/10/2013 11:35:14 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Im not surprised by anything this administration does anymore..what Obama would love more than anything is to see race riots, it fulfills his agenda and also the agenda of the left


158 posted on 07/10/2013 11:39:36 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Yes, you read that correctly. Surprised?

Zipper and his Holder have quit even trying to hide their criminal activity any more. The whole country couldn't possibly get alerted to a non event like Zimmerman self defense any more than the entire Middle East instantly becomes aware of a non existent Youtube video.

159 posted on 07/10/2013 11:39:49 AM 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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To: jocon307

I don’t doubt doj would bring up federal charges.

I still say he’ll be acquitted. And then fedgov will probably file a case.


160 posted on 07/10/2013 11:43:23 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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