When the Obama Administration sent in a team to investigate civil rights violations in the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin, some of us expressed doubt over the basis for such a charge as well as the timing of the federal move into the case. Indeed, I was highly skeptical of how the case was charged and prosecuted. Now the Washington Post is reporting that, after two years of investigation, Justice officials do not believe that they have sufficient evidence to bring federal charges.
George Zimmerman was acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter in a state trial in Sanford, Fla., last year. Various community and political leaders demanded that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. bring a federal civil rights case against him. The protests led to considerable pressure for the Obama Administration to act and the investigation by the Civil Rights Section helped quell some of the discontent over the verdict. However, the case remained weak for both a second-degree murder case as well as a civil rights charge. While many read racist motivations behind Zimmerman motives, Zimmerman succeeded in establishing that he was acting in self-defense.
The Administration has also taken the same quick response to the shooting in Ferguson, though that investigation is centering on the police department as a whole.
Source: Washington Post
swarthmoremom,
Fortunately, those views aren’t the norm where I live.
White southern fundy “christian” women………
bettykath,
Coulter certainly is ignorant–as well as being a hatemonger.
You have to remember that I spent too many years in Texas where Squeeky’s views are too often the norm.
@NickS
LOLZ! True! They will do anything to avoid actually reading the book. Uh, she’s stupid. Uh, some people are boycotting her! Uh, she misspelled a word. Uh, I hate blondes! Just anything besides actually reading the facts in the book. It like vampires and the sun light is peeking thru the blinds, and they are all running around in stark terror trying to avoid the sun beams.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Coulter is soooo ignorant. Must be she’s a 24/7 watcher of Fox .
nick, No one’s head is exploding. It is not surprising that Squeeky is a fan of Coulter’s. Would be surprised if she was not.
I guess the “hates black folks” was just a Joe McCarthy accusation. “I have in my hands here, a list of 27 black folk haters.”
Squeeky, LOL! You lit the fuse and heads are exploding. They’re so easy, don’t you feel guilty sometimes. SWM was so desperate she threw out a report from 7 years ago.
More Ann Coulter…for anyone who can stomach her!
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/jewish-groups-condemn-boycott-ann-coulter/ Bigots pushing other bigots’ books.
Squeeky Fromm, Girl Reporter
@Dredd
Hmmm. I think George Zimmerman’s amygdala was getting banged against the concrete sidewalk by the thug. Hence, the shooting.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
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When you are in a good mood.
I am addressing your bad mood.
That has been imposed on you and enslaves you mentally, not physically as our culture has done to innocent people long ago.
And if our cultural amygdala has its way, once again.
Our constitution glorified their mass thuggery, they mass crimes.
We do not have to suffer Stockholm Syndrome because of what others who erred before us did.
Of course, unless we really do down deep inside like that part of our culture.
Amurka right or wrong?
The skin color determines God’s thinking?
Ann Coulter demontsrates how dumb she is on CBC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FKF4Z36hyQ
Ann Coulter thinks we bombed Egypt!!!
When I’m on a plane, in a bar, wherever, and I don’t feel like talking I simply don’t respond. I just nod, smile, and go back to reading, watching TV, etc. People pick up on it and simply stop talking to me and asking questions. Now, some have poor social skills and it may take them a bit. But, they eventually get it. The same thing on other blogs. Eventually, people get it. I don’t know WTF it is about this place. But, there are several people w/ whom I have not engaged for MONTHS, yet they still keep asking me questions.
@Dredd
Hmmm. I think George Zimmerman’s amygdala was getting banged against the concrete sidewalk by the thug. Hence, the shooting.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Squeeky Fromm, Girl Reporter
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May I suggest that you get a copy of Mugged …
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Is it about how the white people preyed for the black race and god answered so they were kidnapped, brought to Amurka for cleansing?
Serving white Amurkans by way of the holy constitution cleansed them.
Their mugging was the best thing that ever happened to them.
To this very day?
LOL! Her head would explode.
Nick Spinelli
JT uses the word “thug” and has been called “RAAAACIST” for doing so. Fly that flag on some other echo chamber blog. It don’t fly here!
Kudos on the non PC poem Squeeky. You are our poet laureate.
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Are you in “dear leader” mode?
@Elaine
May I suggest that you get a copy of Mugged, by Ann Coulter. I am about half way through it, and it truly rocks! You can get a copy for about $3 and less than $10 including shipping and handling. Here are some reviews:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15808231-mugged
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter