Still early loser. We've got some action out in Oakland and I'm counting on Trill to have a hand in flipping at least 2 patrol cars himself, so be patient.
Truth bombs, tbh.
Actually, if Martin was white, the media might have glorified the Hispanic half of Zimmerman to make it a racial issue. I'm anxious to see the next murder trial that distracts America from the 92398732982398234 more important issues in this country.
SYG laws and racist murders ARE important issues.
Odds of the feds charging Z for civil rights violations like in the Rodney King cops case? Al Sharpton did say he was going to push it hard to Holder on MSNBC, as has the NAACP. I'll say no.
“Protests are nothing but peaceful, don’t believe the hype #Oakland”Another user reports that Oakland unrest reports are not protestors from Trayvon Martin rallies, saying white “college kids” have been the ones rioting in small numbers"
I will give you tonight and that is it.
Fair enough Creepy.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefi...n-on-zimmerman
Holder faces big decision on DOJ charges against Zimmerman
By Meghashyam Mali - 07/14/13 08:13 AM ET
Attorney General Eric Holder faces a crucial decision on whether to press federal civil rights charges against George Zimmerman, after the neighborhood watchman was acquitted Saturday in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin.
The NAACP and other leading civil rights groups are pressing for Holder to open a federal case against Zimmerman, after he was found not guilty on second-degree murder and manslaughter charges by a Florida jury.
The public pressure leaves Holder, the nation’s first African-American attorney general, facing a difficult decision on a controversial case that has grabbed the nation’s attention and sparked renewed debate about racial profiling.
In a statement from NAACP President Ben Jealous, the civil rights group said they were “not done demanding justice for Trayvon Martin.”
“The most fundamental of civil rights—the right to life—was violated the night George Zimmerman stalked and then took the life of Trayvon Martin. We ask that the Department of Justice file civil rights charges against Mr. Zimmerman for this egregious violation,” said the group in a pe ion unveiled Saturday night. “Please address the travesties of the tragic death of Trayvon Martin by acting today.”
On CNN Sunday, civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson also demanded that the Justice Department “intervene” and “take this to another level.”
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Many Democratic lawmakers are also joining those calls, with Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) tweeting a message from Jealous asking for the DOJ to act.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) tweeted he was “deeply saddened” by the verdict, but was “pleased that DOJ is continuing to evaluate evidence.”
The DOJ launched a review of the shooting earlier this year and Holder said that they would take proper action if they had evidence of a civil rights crime.
“If we find evidence of a potential federal criminal civil rights crime, we will take appropriate action, and at every step, the facts and law will guide us forward,” said Holder in a speech in April to Al Sharpton’s National Action Network.
But Holder had cautioned in subsequent remarks that the DOJ faces a “very high barrier” when seeking to bring federal criminal charges in such cases.
The decision to act against Zimmerman after a jury acquitted him could also put Holder again at odds with Republican lawmakers, with whom he has had a contentious relationship.
The House voted him in contempt last year after he failed to turn over do ents subpoenaed in a probe of the ATF’s botched gun-tracking program, Operation Fast and Furious.
Holder has also faced congressional anger over the DOJ’s probe of journalists over national security leaks, including questions about whether he lied when testifying before Congress that he was unaware of efforts to prosecute reporters.
Holder spoke in April about the shooting death of Trayvon Martin personally, saying that “as a parent, I reacted to it.”
“This is a pain that no parent should have to endure. The notion of having to bury a child is something that is, I think in some ways for a parent, the ultimate pain,” Holder said.
“The primary responsibility we have in the Justice Department is to support the state in its ongoing investigation, to do our own thorough and parallel investigation which we are in the process of doing and try to resolve this matter in as fair and complete a way and as quickly as we can.”
so now you can instigate a confrontation..get your ass kicked and then kill the guy kicking your ass..
i felt like i took a time machine back to the 1950's after reading the ruling and reading/watching all the non blacks reactions after the trial, very evil but not surprised. i expected it. but the hardest thing i had to do last night was answering my 11 and 13 year old brothers questions as to why the coward was not guilty. had to tell them that because they're black, they have a target on their backs from the moment they are born.
anyways.....
Scary precedent to set.
only if the guy kicking your ass is black, and esp in red-states, esp the retrograde Confederacy.
Why do people keep saying this? It's amazing that s on both sides use this to fuel their own biases and hatred. If it was that clear cut, with the support of a nation, with the support of an African American President and thousands of World famous actors and athletes, GZ would have been convicted.
The prosecution tried to argue your point and a jury found that not credible. So you need to stop saying stuff that a jury found did not happen despite immense pressure to convict in order to prove some point that does not exist.
If you said that, you are setting those kids up to be losers and you would be an awful parent. Real talk. When you show them all the rich, angry black people upset about Trayvon and you make them watch the African American POTUS discuss the case, be sure to tell them there is no progress and no justice for the black man.i felt like i took a time machine back to the 1950's after reading the ruling and reading/watching all the non blacks reactions after the trial, very evil but not surprised. i expected it. but the hardest thing i had to do last night was answering my 11 and 13 year old brothers questions as to why the coward was not guilty. had to tell them that because they're black, they have a target on their backs from the moment they are born.
anyways.....
"with the support of a nation, with the support of an African American President and thousands of World famous actors and athletes, GZ would have been convicted. "
none of those people had any bearing, or presence, in the court room, or on either side.
There was little hard evidence, so-so defense, ty prosecution, and tons of blatant lies by Z who single handedly created the situation where he expressed his animus towards punk assholes, ing s, young black males up to no good, and murdered one of them.
I don't hate anybody. Zimmerman started it and killed him when things went south. That is a fact
What a smug piece of .
stop it. so there are rich blacks and a half breed president, everything is supposed to be equal? you're being intellectually dishonest and i can't have a serious discussion about race with you.
USA Today quoted Howie Felterbush
Zimmerman is as Hispanic as Obama is black. As much as people want to make this a black and white issue it simply is not.
The only thing that you can say is in today's world when a physical fight erupts from a disagreement you must know that someone could end up dead.
Ok, tell them that if they savagely and heartlessly kill many dogs that they can go to jail but it's no biggie because they will get out and can still be rich beyond their wildest dreams. Because there is no justice for the black man. Tell them that there are no unsolved murders with black suspects killing other blacks because America hunts down every black and convicts them (sans OJ) even if there are no facts to support it.
Tell them this time is no different than pre-Lincoln and that they have limited opportunities and that black culture is still suppressed and not embraced by white America.
i'm not telling them that sarcastic bull lol. but i am going to make sure they read "the new jim crow" by mic e alexander.
You just did with the "target" talk.
Stalked
Hunted down
Confronted
Minding his own business
Skittles
Ice tea
Profiled
Assumed
Assaulted
Instigated
Detained?
Repeat as necessary and you can be a state prosecutor.
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