“Experienced federal prosecutors will determine whether the
evidence reveals a prosecutable violation of any of the limited federal
criminal civil rights statutes within our jurisdiction, and whether federal
prosecution is appropriate in accordance with the department’s policy governing
successive federal prosecution following a state trial,” a department spokesman
said. In the hours following the reading of the verdict, NAACP President
Ben Jealous started a petition calling on the department to open a civil rights
case against Zimmerman, who shot unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin as he
walked through the Sanford, Fla., gated community where he was staying. “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,” Jealous
wrote in the petition addressed to Attorney General Eric Holder. “It feels so
often that our young people have to fear the bad guys and the good guys, the
robbers and the cops, and the self-appointed community watch volunteers,”
Jealous said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid declared Sunday: “This isn’t over with.” “I think the Justice Department’s
going to take a look at this,” Reid said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “And I
think that’s good. That’s our system. It’s gotten better, not worse.”
C.L.I.C.K. for Justice and Equality is an agent of change alerting our social community of injustices and inequalities among the underserved, disadvantaged, and disenfranchised individual or group. A disadvantaged or disenfranchised person or group is anyone who is socially, culturally, and politically deprived of or oppressed from life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Change takes place through our legislative body of Senators and State Representatives, not from the Judicial bench.
July 14, 2013
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