I'm Shocked!! DOJ Assisted Anti-Zimmerman Protests With Taxpayer Dollars

[twyacht]

From Eric Holder's DOJ? Naw, no way....

http://patdollard.com/2013/07/report-doj-assisted-anti-zimmerman-protesters/

Report: DOJ Assisted Anti-Zimmerman Protesters

Jul 10, 2013 1 Comment Toro520

Excerpted from the Daily Caller:

A division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was deployed to Sanford, Florida in 2012 to provide assistance for anti-George Zimmerman protests, including a rally headlined by activist Al Sharpton, according to newly released documents.

The Community Relations Service (CRS), a unit of DOJ, reported expenses related to its deployment in Sanford to help manage protests between March and April 2012, according to documents obtained by the watchdog group Judicial Watch.

CRS spent $674.14 between March 25-27 related to having been “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.” CRS spent another $1,142.84 for the same purpose between March 25-28.

CRS spent $892.55 “to provide support for protest deployment in Florida” between March 30-April 1, and $751.60 “to provide technical assistance to the City of Sanford, event organizers, and law enforcement agencies for the march and rally on March 31.”

Sharpton, who promoted the Tawana Brawley hoax in the 1980s and in 1995 led a protest against the “white interloper” owner of a Harlem clothing store that ended in a deadly shooting rampage at the store, was a featured speaker at the March 31 rally, called “The March for Trayvon Martin,” where he advocated for Zimmerman’s prosecution.

CRS expenditures related to the anti-Zimmerman protests continued through mid-April. Between April 11 and April 12, CRS spent $552.35 “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.”

Local government officials noticed the Department of Justice’s efforts in building “bridges of understanding” in Sanford.

“Congratulations to our partners, Thomas Battles, Regional Director, and Mildred De Robles, Miami-Dade Coordinator and their co-workers at the U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Service for their outstanding and ongoing efforts to reduce tensions and build bridges of understanding and respect in Sanford, Florida,” wrote Amy Carswell, Miami-Dade County Community Relations Board Program Officer, in an April 16 email.

“Thank you Partner. You did lots of stuff behind the scene to make Miami a success. We will continue to work together,” DOJ official Thomas Battles wrote in reply to Carswell.

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Keep that in mind, as LEO Dept.'s all over the country have stated a "riot contingency plan".....when Zimmerman is acquitted.

Good call DOJ!!!!!

I think the DOJ acted "stupidly",...oh wait, that's what BHO said about the Boston cops agains a Lib/Black professor....Or "if I had a son, he would look like Trayvon" BHO quote....

Should work out well....

[kmitch200]

Something sounds fishy...
They only spent 4 grand?? I think someone missed a couple or three zeros. This is the .gov we're talking about.

[fightingquaker13]

Okay, I'm going to be devils advocate. Were they helping the protestors, or helping local LEOs defuse a potentially ugly scene? I mean we're talking chump change here, the kind you spend renting a room and buying coffee and doughnuts for folks to meet with the cops and lay down the ground rules of marches and stuff. This doesn't strike me as sinister as nothing bad happened even with all the tension. No violence, no arrests, no riots.

[MikeBjerum]

FQ,

It is ok to play devil's advocate, but why would the Department of Justice do either one?  This is a small local event that is only large because our President cranked up the race issue.  I'm sorry, but if you and I were at a party, I chased you away from my wife, you attacked me, and I shot you, nobody would care, and it would be forgotten before the ink in the Star Tribune dried.  However, we don't look like BHO Jr. either.

[fightingquaker13]

Tell me about it we're deluged with this circus dailey. I am beyond sick of it.

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[DGF]

This is a show trial worthy of the Stalin era. Now they want to charge him with Child Abuse. The Prosecution obviously has the judge in their pocket. If Zimmerman gets off it will be a miracle. We can only hope that the jury has been paying attention and makes their decision based on the facts.

[Solus]

Every thing this administration does stinks.

If they were baking pies and frying bacon, it would still stink.

[twyacht]

This follows the pattern of this admin., from the "dropped" charges against the Black Panthers who stood out front with night sticks at a polling place in Penn. To the college professor referenced in my OP, to NBC news selectively "editing Zimmerman's 911 call" and the rest of the MSM who had him convicted from day 1.

As opposed to the black on black daily gang shootings in Chicago that you never hear about. (Just a local story).....

or the black on white crimes that happen across the country, (non-news worthy).

Just like the Duke Lacrosse Team hoax, this is truly a show trial. With the DOJ's involvement, aka (BHO knew),...there should be a mistrial declared, and Gov. Scott should pardon Zimmerman.

They (the DOJ), paid for a 40 mile police escort to bus in angry college students from Dayton Beach to get the Sanford Sheriff (Lee) fired. Lee stated on Anderson Cooper's CNN show, that the investigation was hijacked, as he did not see enough probable cause to charge Zimmerman...

Child Abuse? Really? Thankfully that was thrown out. Even Harvard Lib Lawyer Alan Dershowitz said the initial indictment was written by a second rate law student.

This is a political/criminal lynching.

Waiting on the riots.