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To: Gay State Conservative
Can't have federal charges on a state crime. And Zimmerman wasn't a cop.

Explain, in detail, how federal charges can be brought in this case.

/johnny

445 posted on 07/13/2013 7:29:27 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper
Can't have federal charges on a state crime.

Really? Hell,I didn't even stay at a Holiday Inn last night and I know that *that's* not true.

Explain, in detail, how federal charges can be brought in this case.

One word...civil rights!

OK,it's two words.

484 posted on 07/13/2013 7:33:19 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Civil Servants Are No Longer Servants...Or Civil.)
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To: JRandomFreeper
Explain, in detail, how federal charges can be brought in this case.

The feds can decide that this was a racially-motivated case, then charge under the federal civil rights act.

Was done some years ago in TX, where 2 white men dragged a black man with a chain behind their truck ...

521 posted on 07/13/2013 7:36:52 PM PDT by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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