Posted on 11/14/2014 10:32:06 AM PST by jazusamo
Full title: EXCLUSIVE: In Scathing Letter to Obama, Former FBI Assistant Director Slams Holder as "Chief Among Antagonists" in Ferguson
As the Senate prepares to hold confirmation hearings for new Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch and as outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder continues to allocate Department of Justice resources to the situation in Ferguson, former FBI Assistant Director and Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund President Ron Hosko has sent a scathing letter to President Obama detailing the damage done to the relationship between law enforcement and DOJ over the past six years.
"The hyper-politicization of justice issues has made it immeasurably more difficult for police officers to simply do their jobs. The growing divide between the police and the people – perhaps best characterized by protesters in Ferguson, Mo., who angrily chanted, “It’s not black or white. It’s blue!” – only benefits of members of a political class seeking to vilify law enforcement for other societal failures. This puts our communities at greater risk, especially the most vulnerable among us," Hosko wrote in the letter. "Your attorney general, Eric Holder, is chief among the antagonists. During his tenure as the head of the Department of Justice, Mr. Holder claims to have investigated twice as many police and police departments as any of his predecessors. Of course, this includes his ill-timed decision to launch a full investigation into the Ferguson Police Department at the height of racial tensions in that community, throwing gasoline on a fire that was already burning. Many officers were disgusted by such a transparent political maneuver at a time when presidential and attorney general leadership could have calmed a truly chaotic situation."
In Ferguson law enforcement officials are bracing for violence and riots ahead of a Grand Jury decision about whether to prosecute Police Officer Darren Wilson for the killing of Michael Brown. Wilson says he shot Brown in self-defense after Brown went for his gun during a struggle in the police car. According to an official autopsy, Brown was shot at close range and had gun powder residue on his hand, indicating the struggle in the car did in fact happen and that Brown reached for Wilson's gun.
The official county autopsy, which was performed by Dr. Gershom Norfleet, showed Brown was shot in the hand at close range based on the finding of “foreign matter ‘consistent with products that are discharged from the barrel of a firearm,’” in a wound on Brown’s hand, the Post-Dispatch reports. "[This] guy is reaching for the gun, if he has gunpowder particulate material in the wound,” Dr. Judy Melinek, a forensic pathologist in San Francisco, told the Post-Dispatch.
The official autopsy also “did not support witnesses who have claimed Brown was shot while running away from Wilson, or with his hands up,” the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. These witness statements would lead protesters to raise their hands in a stance of surrender while facing police during demonstrations, chanting “Hands up, don’t shoot.”
Brown's being shot in the hand at close range appears to confirm the account Wilson told to investigators—that Wilson and Brown had “struggled for Wilson’s pistol inside a police SUV and that Wilson had fired the gun twice, hitting Brown once in the hand”—a source with knowledge of Wilson’s statements told the Post-Dispatch.
In August, Holder sent Department of Justice officials from the Civil Rights Division and dozens of FBI agents to Ferguson to investigate the case before the official autopsy was conducted and nearly suggested in a statement that Officer Wilson was guilty of a crime before any evidence was produced.
"It won’t be long before the American people turn their attention to other matters. Long after Ferguson is forgotten, police officers across America will still remember the way their senior federal executives turned their back on them with oft-repeated suggestions that race-based policing drives a biased, broken law enforcement agenda," Hosko continued. "As we move forward with the selection and confirmation of a new attorney general, I ask that you personally reengage with the law enforcement community of dedicated and valiant men and women across the country, serving at every level of government. With two years remaining in your presidency, you have an urgent responsibility to correct damage inflicted upon law enforcement and help mend the rift between police and those they protect. The Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund will be happy to support any such discussions."
The Grand Jury report and decision from the Michael Brown case in Ferguson is expected to be released any day now.
It should be noted that before becoming President of LELDF, Hosko served as FBI assistant director under Holder until retiring earlier this year.
Who said Holder was a friend of law enforcement? He is a radical’s radical and sees everything as racist unless the black man wins everything. He has a deep and abiding hatred for white police officers and has never tried to hide it. As Obama has done to the Border Patrol, so has Holder done to law enforcement in general.
He's doing exactly what caliph Hussein 0bama wishes him to do.
In some cases, the police in this country have overstepped the bounds of law enforcement and become oppressors, not just of underclass blacks, but of several out-of-favor groups. There’s the stupid SWAT raids, the guy giving speeding tickets for 56 in a 55 zone, the officer who responds rudely to a polite question from a respectable citizen.
This has undermined their support among several important segments of the population. This is why Holder and the Obama administration are somewhat emboldened.
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The more distance put between the gubmint and the local police depts., I say “good”. It takes the ‘state’ out of ‘police state’. The DHS will continue to trample on local authorities, however.
Actually, it sounds much more like he says ‘F’ing cold’.
The non-prosecution of the Black Pampers for voter intimidation, in the first election, should have told everyone the story. They are nothing more than the black version of the KKK, except that they are considered “politically correct” and untouchable, being black instead of white. That early instance of selective justice showed just how things would be for the entirety of this white-hating administration. But they don’t hate whites quite enough to forgo using all the things whites have discovered or invented or built.
Absolutely, that voter intimidation by the NBP prosecution being dismissed at DOJ was the tip off for Holder’s racist tenure.
I remember some years ago you used to see bumper stickers that read,
“Support Your Local Police. Help Keep Them Independent”.
I never really understood what that meant then, but I sure do now.
Obama trained Holder so that makes him on the premeir antagonists on the planet.
Holder just doing the job of the New Black Panthers for ‘his’ people. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
And just what is that “job?”
That job is to create so much disorder that Obama and his ruinning dogs at Justice will be forced to declare martial law pursuant to the Insurrection Act, so as to suspend the copnstitutional rights of Free Speech and Due Process in order to “protect” minorities ( Hispanics and Black folks) from the alleged predations of the White Man.
With such martial law imposed treasonously on the People, Obama will suspend the 2016 elections and attempt to hold and prosecute dictatorial power.Obama has done his prep work well, having placed liberal fascists at all the crucial nexus points of government that could stop him from exercising dictatorial power, including the military.
Don’t believe it?
Read here:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html
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