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
Well, Dredd, it’s Saturday;
somethings eating sumthin – everywhere today
(especially indoors in SoCal – due to the heat wave).
WordMess ate my comment.
So, I will just post this link (Comparing a Group-Mind Trance to a Cultural Amygdala).
“Group-mind trance is a part of the everyday life of each one of us. We belong to various kinds of groups–families, work groups, churches, and other organizations. Each has its own group mind that entrances us, perhaps more subtly than a lynch mob, but every bit as effectively. And in the group-mind trance, we experience all the features of other trance states.
Group-mind trances give us a basis for understanding the macrotrance of culture.” (Comparing a Group-Mind Trance to a Cultural Amygdala).
Dredd, I retrieved your comment at 10:04.
bettykath;
You need your own blog/website – OR – to go to a hosting sight such as Flickr, Photobucket, etc., (unless your computer is hosting your websites).
This is a security protocol, so that others can’t follow your picture link;
and ping back into (hack) your computer. (a VERY good thing)…
Sites like Twitter, FB etc., tend to tie in their linkback (ping back);
because their firewalls protect them and they want everyone linked to them.
Unfortunately, WordPress has “spam” blockers (which is what FB and/or Twitter etc., forcing their link in – is labeled as).
I can post pictures for you (if you don’t mind them being tied to Petters-Fraud)
just email me the pic…
Thanks for the try.
@bettykath
Well, I am not an expert, but I believe unless you have special privileges at the blog, you can not post a photo or image from your personal computer. Because if this blog works the same as mine, you have to upload a picture to the blog’s media files before you can put it here.
If you have your own blog, you can upload your image to there, and then link it. Or, go someplace like “dropbox” and upload your picture and then link it here. If I am wrong on any of this, I apologize.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
I’m working with a photo, not a link.
@bettykath
Right click on the image location, and then paste it here. If it is the right link, it will end in “jpg” usually. If not, you probably have the wrong link.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
@Elaine
So what??? There ain’t no shortage of young, black thugs. You could probably find 40,000 or so of them up in Chicago alone. No telling how many in Florida if you want to stay in state. Trayvon is dead because he jumped on somebody and started beating them up. I will save my sorrow for people who didn’t bring bad stuff on themselves.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl reporter
how do you post pictures?
And the issue you framed is not funny. But nicks comment was IMHO.
Elaine, with all due respect, defendants in the criminal justice system are not found innocent. They are found not guilty. Big difference. That is the way the system is set up. It errs on the side of letting those go that may have committed the crime if there is reasonable doubt of their guilt to limit the number of wrongful convictions to those that are innocent. Is it perfect? Absolutely not. But is it pretty darn good relatively speaking? You bet.
A young black man is dead because of George Zimmerman. Let’s all joke about it and have a good laugh. Such a funny story! Well, Trayvon was just a little thug. Why should anyone care about what happened to him?
@NickS
LOL! Next, they’ll be making a horror film which is a take-off on Candyman (1992). In this one, if a black person stands in front of a mirror and says, “Zimmerman” five times, he’ll come out of the mirror with his semi-automatic assault handgun , take your Skittles and tea, and then shoot you!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Innocent people have been found guilty in courts of law in this country and put to death and guilty people have been found innocent of their crimes and gone free. So it goes.
So what? You’re point is? Oh I got it… That justifies the DOJ investigation right? Or does that mean GZ is racist? Guilty? ALL OF THE ABOVE!
Let’s try the SOB again right here!! These old schoolers are still fighting the Viet Nam war. I’m ashamed to be a Baby Boomer.
ALECexposed: George Zimmerman’s Criminal History Includes Alleged Violence and Temper (Audio and New Documents)
http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/09/12218/alecexposed-george-zimmermans-criminal-history-includes-alleged-violence-and-temp
Excerpt:
Fewer than 100 Seconds between Zimmerman Hanging Up and 9-1-1 Call
Many Zimmerman defenders have claimed African American high school student Martin intentionally “jumped” Zimmerman, thus provoking his own death, but Zimmerman’s own statement to a police dispatcher less than two minutes before the shooting was that Martin was trying to run away from him.
When he told the police dispatcher that he was following the person later identified as Martin, the dispatcher told Zimmerman “we don’t need you to do that,” but moments later Zimmerman hung up with the dispatcher and got out of his car to go after Martin. The dispatcher had offered to have police meet Zimmerman at the mailboxes at the front of the housing complex, but Zimmerman instead asked police to call him on his cell phone when they arrived and he would give them his location then. Zimmerman did not tell the dispatcher he was armed with a semi-automatic handgun that night.
elaine, your comment wreaks of pot calling the kettle does it not?
@juris and NickS
Thank you both! Bowing, Bowing. I am glad you liked it! Now that I have given them the idea, I expect to see that fantasy reported at Huffpo and Politico as a real story from an impeckable source!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter