Dept Of Justice - Assists Trayvon Protests
Wednesday, July 10, 2013 at 4:50PM Race Hustling Democrats and DOJ spent US Taxpayer Dollars Supporting Trayvon Organized Rallies....
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Community Relations Service, CRS
On June 10, 2013 Judicial Watch announced that the Department of Justice, DOJ, had turned over documents in response to a Freedom of Information Act request showing that the Community Relations Service, CRS, a small division of the DOJ,
Obama's political pretrial comments about Trayvon were unfair prejudice towards the defendant while tainting the jury pool before any trial evidence was presented. was sent to Sanford, Florida after the Trayvon Martin shooting to help manage rallies and protests.
In April 2013, Breitbart News' Lee Stranahan first reported the role of the CRS in Sanford, Florida. The new documents show that from March 25 through April 12, 2012, the CRS spent thousands of dollars helping organize and “work” marches and demonstrations regarding Trayvon Martin. Tasks included:
- Working “marches, demonstrations, and rallies related to the shooting and death of an African-American teen by a "neighborhood watch captain”.
Dept of Justice orchestrated demonstration - taxpayer paid. (Revs. Jesse Jackson & Al Sharpton on left side)
- Providing “support for protest deployment in Florida”.
- Providing “technical assistance to the City of Sanford, event organizers, and law enforcement agencies for the march and rally on March 31”.
- Providing “technical assistance, conciliation, and onsite mediation during demonstrations planned in Sanford.”
In April, the Community Relations Service, CRS as it was reported "set up a meeting between the local NAACP and elected officials that led to the temporary resignation of police chief Bill Lee according to Turner Clayton, Seminole County chapter president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.”
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton commented, “These documents detail the extraordinary intervention by the Justice Department in the pressure campaign leading to the prosecution of George Zimmerman."
