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Newly Released Documents Detail the Department of Justice's Role in Organizing Trayvon Martin Protests
Judicial Watch announced today that it has obtained documents proving that the Department of
Justice played a major behind-the-scenes role in organizing protests against George Zimmerman.
Zimmerman is on trial for second-degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in
February 2012.
Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the DOJ on April 24, 2012.
According to the documents JW received, a little-known DOJ unit called the Community
Relations Service deployed to Sanford, FL, to organize and manage rallies against Zimmerman.
Among JW's findings:
March 25 – 27, 2012, CRS spent $674.14 upon being "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."
March 25 – 28, 2012, CRS spent $1,142.84 "in Sanford, FL to work marches, demonstrations,
and rallies related to the shooting and death of an African-American teen by a neighborhood
watch captain."
March 30 – April 1, 2012, CRS spent $892.55 in Sanford, FL "to provide support for protest
deployment in Florida."
March 30 – April 1, 2012, CRS spent an additional $751.60 in Sanford, FL "to provide
technical assistance to the City of Sanford, event organizers, and law enforcement agencies for
the march and rally on March 31."
April 3 – 12, 2012, CRS spent $1,307.40 in Sanford, FL "to provide technical assistance,
conciliation, and onsite mediation during demonstrations planned in Sanford."
April 11-12, 2012, CRS spent $552.35 in Sanford, FL "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." – expenses for employees to travel, eat, sleep?
JW says the documents it obtained reveal that CRS is not engaging in its stated mission of
conducting "impartial mediation practices and conflict resolution," but instead engaged on the
side of the anti-Zimmerman protesters.
On April 15, 2012, during the height of the protests, the Orlando Sentinel reported, "They [the
CRS] helped 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." The
paper quoted the Rev. Valarie Houston, pastor of Allen Chapel AME Church, a focal point for
protestors, as saying "They were there for us," after a March 20 meeting with CRS agents.
Separately, in response to a Florida Sunshine Law request to the City of Sanford, Judicial
Watch also obtained an audio recording of a "community meeting" held at Second Shiloh
Missionary Baptist Church in Sanford on April 19, 2012. The meeting, which led to the ouster of
Sanford's Police Chief Bill Lee, was scheduled after a group of college students calling
themselves the "Dream Defenders" barricaded the entrance to the police department demanding
Lee be fired. According to the Orlando Sentinel, DOJ employees with the CRS had arranged a
40-mile police escort for the students from Daytona Beach to Sanford.
"These documents detail the extraordinary intervention by the Justice Department in the
pressure campaign leading to the prosecution of George Zimmerman," said Judicial Watch
President Tom Fitton. "My guess is that most Americans would rightly object to taxpayers
paying government employees to help organize racially-charged demonstrations."
Organizing such protests falls well within both President Barack Obama's and Attorney General
Eric Holder's wheelhouses. Obama was a "community organizer" in his career prior to elective
politics, a position that uses protests and street theater, along with threats, to obtain concessions
from businesses and other political opponents. Holder has accused America of being a "nation of
cowards" for not discussing racial issues enough. He also described black Americans as "my
people" during a congressional hearing.
As the Zimmerman trial winds down, the threat of race riots should he be acquitted has risen.
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un - frickin - believable.
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Newly Released Documents Detail the Department of Justice's Role in Organizing Trayvon Martin Protests
Judicial Watch announced today that it has obtained documents proving that the Department of
Justice played a major behind-the-scenes role in organizing protests against George Zimmerman.
Zimmerman is on trial for second-degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in
February 2012.
Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the DOJ on April 24, 2012.
According to the documents JW received, a little-known DOJ unit called the Community
Relations Service deployed to Sanford, FL, to organize and manage rallies against Zimmerman.
Among JW's findings:
March 25 – 27, 2012, CRS spent $674.14 upon being "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."
March 25 – 28, 2012, CRS spent $1,142.84 "in Sanford, FL to work marches, demonstrations,
and rallies related to the shooting and death of an African-American teen by a neighborhood
watch captain."
March 30 – April 1, 2012, CRS spent $892.55 in Sanford, FL "to provide support for protest
deployment in Florida."
March 30 – April 1, 2012, CRS spent an additional $751.60 in Sanford, FL "to provide
technical assistance to the City of Sanford, event organizers, and law enforcement agencies for
the march and rally on March 31."
April 3 – 12, 2012, CRS spent $1,307.40 in Sanford, FL "to provide technical assistance,
conciliation, and onsite mediation during demonstrations planned in Sanford."
April 11-12, 2012, CRS spent $552.35 in Sanford, FL "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." – expenses for employees to travel, eat, sleep?
JW says the documents it obtained reveal that CRS is not engaging in its stated mission of
conducting "impartial mediation practices and conflict resolution," but instead engaged on the
side of the anti-Zimmerman protesters.
On April 15, 2012, during the height of the protests, the Orlando Sentinel reported, "They [the
CRS] helped 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." The
paper quoted the Rev. Valarie Houston, pastor of Allen Chapel AME Church, a focal point for
protestors, as saying "They were there for us," after a March 20 meeting with CRS agents.
Separately, in response to a Florida Sunshine Law request to the City of Sanford, Judicial
Watch also obtained an audio recording of a "community meeting" held at Second Shiloh
Missionary Baptist Church in Sanford on April 19, 2012. The meeting, which led to the ouster of
Sanford's Police Chief Bill Lee, was scheduled after a group of college students calling
themselves the "Dream Defenders" barricaded the entrance to the police department demanding
Lee be fired. According to the Orlando Sentinel, DOJ employees with the CRS had arranged a
40-mile police escort for the students from Daytona Beach to Sanford.
"These documents detail the extraordinary intervention by the Justice Department in the
pressure campaign leading to the prosecution of George Zimmerman," said Judicial Watch
President Tom Fitton. "My guess is that most Americans would rightly object to taxpayers
paying government employees to help organize racially-charged demonstrations."
Organizing such protests falls well within both President Barack Obama's and Attorney General
Eric Holder's wheelhouses. Obama was a "community organizer" in his career prior to elective
politics, a position that uses protests and street theater, along with threats, to obtain concessions
from businesses and other political opponents. Holder has accused America of being a "nation of
cowards" for not discussing racial issues enough. He also described black Americans as "my
people" during a congressional hearing.
As the Zimmerman trial winds down, the threat of race riots should he be acquitted has risen.
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un - frickin - believable.
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