Posted on 07/15/2013 11:48:10 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
ORLANDO -- More than 400,000 people have signed online petitions calling for the U.S. Department of Justice to file civil rights charges against George Zimmerman for killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. The department is looking into whether those charges need to be filed. Both NAACP President Ben Jealous and NAACP Chairman Roslyn Brock are speaking out in support of the continued federal investigating Zimmerman for violating Martin’s civil rights.
Meanwhile, News 13 discussed the case with Florida Fifth District Congressman Corrine Brown at the 104th annual NAACP convention Sunday, which is being held this week at the Orange County Convention Center.
Brown, D-Jacksonville, who represents parts of Central Florida, joined NAACP leaders in condemning Zimmerman’s not guilty verdict.
The congresswoman said she has done so in the past and will continue pushing the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate whether Martin’s civil rights were violated.
She said she also supports filing federal charges against Zimmerman if investigators decide they have probable cause.
“If they find that his rights have been violated, yes I do but I know his rights had been violated because he’s not here with us. He’s not with us, and he did not have a weapon. I’m OK in letting the criminal justice system take care of itself but the point of the matter is, it’s not working,” explained Congresswoman Corrine Brown.
Meanwhile, Congresswoman Corrine Brown released the following statement, following Saturday’s verdict:
"I am heartbroken and angered by the verdict in this decision. My prayers go out to the Martin family in their grief, as they are faced to live with a justice system that has failed them, a system that did not exact even minimal punishment on the man who killed their 17 year old son.
"This is a blatant example of our justice system being entirely broken. Along with the NAACP and other civil rights groups, I pledge to fight for the removal of Stand Your Ground laws here in Florida and across the nation, and do everything within my power as a Member of Congress to put an end to racial profiling. Last year, an innocent young man was killed in Sanford, Florida while returning from a 7-11 grocery store, and the perpetrator was not even convicted of a crime...clearly, there is something very wrong with a system of justice that legally sanctions such a heinous act.
"Two cases involving Stand Your Ground laws in my congressional district highlight the hypocrisy and disparities in this law's interpretation. In this case, in Sanford, a white man shot a black teenager, Trayvon Martin, and the justice system ruled it was an act of self-defense under Stand Your Ground. In Jacksonville, Marissa Alexander, a young black mother fired a warning shot because she feared another possible attack by her abusive husband, yet she was not allowed a stand your ground defense during her trial. If ever there were a case where Stand Your Ground should apply, it would have been that of Marissa Alexander."
Martin had a civil right to assault people?
Whodathunk?
Tough hop.
Liberals sure are funny. Just about any trial you can think of, they want the accused to go free. Mumia al-Jamal? Completely innocent! I Swear! Always the presumption of innocence. Always the high bar for conviction. Got a technicality? Great! No jail for you!!
George Zimmerman? Well, that’s different. Why have a trial? Can’t we just hang him?
Racial Gerrymandering - a rich history...of failure and excuses.
this woman is about the biggest embarrasment to the whole state of florida outside of angela corey.
It seems that your best course if you are being beaten by a black man is to try to cover yourself and hope he won’t kill you or leave you a vegetable. If you try to defend yourself the foolish public, media and black racists will make your life hell. The Martins have lost a son, but Mr. Zimmerman has also been tortured. People have to be blind, deaf or clueless to have such strong feelings against Zimmerman. Many blacks seem unable to see or hear anything but prejudice. They could do something worthwhile by telling their children why they should not attack anyone.
Crooked Corrine just another member of the Black Ku Klux Klan.
Maybe she can get her Nigerian friends to send her money...once she deposits their check in her account
The race malcontents have spoken: I guess the jury needs to deliberate again. Keep voting until they get it right.
corrine is a racist fool. The spew from her mouth is garbage and hate. Shouldn’t this moron be charged with a hate crime against humanity. What a complete waste. Are some of you FLA voters idiots or what?
More than 400,000 people have signed online petitions...
The dumbing down of America continues...
My thought exactly. So now it’s an offense against the civil rights of a person bashing your head into the sidewalk, to defend yourself and make them stop the best way you can? These people are sick. I wish someone would bash their heads into a sidewalk and see how concerned they are with the attacker’s “civil rights” when it happens.
I love these fake ass online petitions. Most people signing not even living in this country.
Rep. is an abbreviation for Reprehensible.
It’s probably one of those worthless internet petitions. Leftists are great at signing petitions, marching, holding candlelight vigils, and making other pointless gestures-they’re not so good at raising their keeds to not be thugs, gangstas, and criminals.
Is the new Constitution going to be Black Law, or Blacklaw?
And in her defense, she does have a low-information constituency that she must pander to.
It’s probably one of those worthless internet petitions. Leftists are great at signing petitions, marching, holding candlelight vigils, and making other pointless gestures...
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