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.
I’m in st johns county, north east FL and it’s one of the most whitest republican counties in the state and there is no way any kind of riots will happen here and if it does then early everyone I know has guns.
The last race riots here were in the 80’s and before that MLK incited the small black community to riot after he left and he brought in his race baiters like what happened in the 80’s from Orlando, Jacksonville and Miami and Atlanta
the masses do not know trust me because the media blocks news and info to them.
Everyday I get to talk to others and I mention this and they all say are you sure or how come it’s not on the news then
journo, killed who was investigating and was being followed.
state dept whistle blower intimidated and has the feds at her door and following her.
her law firm is broken in .
state dept caught lying
Holder and his DOJ found to be racist and now this.
Libya was stand down, we have no idea where bozo was still and ten there was the cover up.
fast and furious,
black racists let go
“his people”
the list is endless, so yea, damn right I don’t trust this corrupt Govt right now nor the media and I tell anyone who cites the media as stupid for thinking it is the truth
SEIU was behind Occupy Wall Street, too.
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add NOI to the list.
Imagine that now if you counter demonstrate against them you are demonstrating against the federal government.
Taxpayer funded government directed street activism and rioting.
And people still are too stupid to have an open discussion of racism against whites.
Our tax dollars and Holder’s impartial justice department at work. Wow... I’d like my money back.
Revolt is coming.
Yet Fox News carries the water.
ok
Kick it off in your urban shitholes, and die out here in the country, barbarian maggots.
And it's a really BIG country .. with more ditches than you execrable savages can shake a stick at, and lots and lots of tractors around to drag your worthless carcasses thereto.
Just hope the crows aren't too picky .. be a shame to have to waste good diesel and/or lime.
In a normal world something like this would just might make the 6 o’clock news..
No, sadly. I don’t put anything past this administration. Anything that can deflect focus from the Illegal Alien in the White House is sanctioned. How shameful.
I really detest Larry Klayman. I really, really do. I mean “really” and not “just a little.”
That said, I think he may have finally hit pay dirt on this one.
Conspiracy to foster race riots?
Is this legal?
As if that matters anymore.
Surprised...nope.Grounds for impeachment? You betcha!
You are so correct, unfortunately....but I would still like to know if there are any legal grounds for the DOJ doing this.
charges pending?
bump
No surprise. In fact the SOS will follow which is NO ONE WILL DO NOTHING!
Why is it that if an idiot robs a convenience store that we have 5 officers and detectives on the scene 5 minutes later.. yet these a$$holes in the administration break law after law and NO ONE DOES ANYTHING. WHY???????
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