Director, Community Relations Service
Community Relations Service
(202) 305-2935
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.
We are now a banana republic.
Not surprised but outrage at this totalitarian dictatorship that we now have is beyond simple outrage.
Why am I not surprised? Think, “NSA wire tapping everyone in and outside of the country”. For this exercise ‘wiretapping’ = all means of conversation, i.e, telephones both wired and wireless, all internet activity.
I wonder how many bullhorns CRS buys and if Sharpton has 1st dibs on the biggest ones.
It’s pre-riot shakedown money extorted from taxpayer aka Blackmail
I have. Thanks so much!
WELL TELL HIM TO READ THE AL-HARBI POS BEING INVITED TO THE WH FOR THE 4TH OF JULY!!!!!!!!!
Exactly right. .this needs wide circulation.
Unreal.
You’ve got that wrong. It’s 99%+, not 95%. It’s far worse than anyone thinks. The Obamnunist crowd and their enablers are going to get their race war. It’s just not going to turn out the way they think it will.
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Holder, Sharpton, Crump and all the other racists have been portraying Zimmerman as a vigilante. Of course they lie.
But if they keep up this level of violence against innocent white people - they may soon get what they deserve and see a level of vigilantism that will make black on black violence seem like a Sunday School Picnic.
The 2013 NAACP convention is not in Miami. It is being held July 13 – 17, 2013 25 miles from Sanford, in Orlando.
I agree and haven’t listen to him in 10 years. I detest wusses - they stand for nothing but just want to be liked - and for him that relates to ‘money’ for him.
Community Relations Service
(202) 305-2935
They should find out how many times recently Eric Holder has called that judge in the Zimmerman case.
How much more will Americans take?
Sanford is really just a suburb of Orlando.
Not just the judge, I'd bet Obama has NSA data on all the jurors!
I wish he was a senator
People who grew up in Banana Republics for former Soviet Bloc states have seen this drill before, and recognize it for what it is.
Sadly the American Public is a bunch of hopelessly naïve sitting ducks.
I would say wow but I expect this crap from our government!
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