Obama Justice Department Defends Dropping Case Against New Black Panther Thugs
Our attorney general is shocked by all the “radicalization” out there:
“I mean, that’s one of the things that’s particularly troubling: This whole notion of radicalization of Americans,” Holder told ABC News during an interview in his SUV as his motorcade brought him from home to work. “Leaving this country and going to different parts of the world and then coming back, all, again, in aim of doing harm to the American people, is a great concern.”
Maybe if the home grown terrorists arrested in North Carolina were just New Black Panther members intimidating voters, the Justice Department could just dismiss their case!
At issue was what, if any, punishment to seek against the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (NBPP) and three of its members accused in a Jan. 7 civil complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia.
Two NBPP members, wearing black berets, black combat boots, black dress shirts and black jackets with military-style markings, were charged in a civil complaint with intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place, including brandishing a 2-foot-long nightstick and issuing racial threats and racial insults. Authorities said a third NBPP member “managed, directed and endorsed the behavior.
The department’s career lawyers in the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division who pursued the complaint for five months had recommended that Justice seek sanctions against the party and three of its members after the government had already won a default judgment in federal court against the men.
Front-line lawyers were in the final stages of completing that work when they were unexpectedly told by their superiors in late April to seek a delay after a meeting between political appointees and career supervisors, according to federal records and interviews.
The delay was ordered by then-acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King after she discussed with Mr. Perrelli concerns about the case during one of their regular review meetings, according to the interviews.
The NBP thugs never even showed up to their trials, but no worry – Obama aparatchiks were there to defend them. Here was their reasoning for dismissing a clear cut case of voter intimidation filmed and viewed on YouTube a zillion times:
• While the NBPP made statements and posted notice that more than 300 of its members would be deployed at polling places throughout the United States during the Nov. 4 elections, the statement and posting did not say any of them would display a weapon or otherwise break the law.
• While the complaint charged that the NBPP and Mr. Zulu Shabazz endorsed the activities at the polling places, the evidence was “equivocal since both later disavowed what happened in Philadelphia and suspended that city’s chapter after the incident.
• The charges against Mr. Jackson were dropped because police who responded to the polling place ordered Mr. Samir Shabazz to leave but allowed Mr. Jackson to stay. He also noted that the department approved “appropriately tailored injunctive relief against Mr. Samir Shabazz for his use of the nightstick.
They want credit for the lone restraining order they wrote up for Mr. Samir Shabazz, while his racist gang of weapon wielding drop-outs get away without so much as a rude look. What a load of bullshit. But the Obamatrons still want us to think they give a damn about protecting voters:
Justice Department spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler told The Washington Times that the department has an “ongoing obligation to be sure the claims it makes are supported by the facts and the law. She said that after a “thorough review of the complaint, top career attorneys in the Civil Rights Division determined the “facts and the law did not support pursuing the claims against three of the defendants.
“As a result, the department dismissed those claims, she said. “We are committed to vigorous enforcement of the laws protecting anyone exercising his or her right to vote.
EXTRA: Michelle Malkin unloads…
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