Post by Fredo on Jul 15, 2013 15:04:51 GMT -5
'We're still trying to figure out what happened, what the charges are,' said Minister Drew X, acting commander of the group. 'He had an open warrant, and just now he got arrested? Why are the leaders who were prominent getting arrested?'
The timing is curious. So is FBI involvement in a misdemeanor probation violation arrest. Stephen Emmett, the FBI's spokesman in Atlanta, is seeking additional information about the arrest for comment.
But the more radical black leaders who have been speaking out about the Martin shooting and the Zimmerman trial say it fits a pattern of intimidation – the legal means to pull the worst malcontents off the streets for violations of probation or parole or bond to limit the perceived risk of post-verdict violence.
'It is no secret that the New Black Panther Party and its national leadership are targeted, jailed, and slated for removal,' said Chawn Kweli, the group's spokesman. 'We have been painted as the virtual cancer of America.'
When President Barack Obama commented that 'if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon,' last March, many conservatives immediately concluded that the administration wanted to inject its politics into the case for partisan gain. That view metastasized during the trial, with the idea that the Obama administration might be fomenting race riots ahead of the verdict gaining currency in the right-wing blogosphere.
Monday, two days after the verdict, it's become plain that the fears of Rodney King-style race riots in the wake of a not-guilty verdict were badly misplaced.
The timing is curious. So is FBI involvement in a misdemeanor probation violation arrest. Stephen Emmett, the FBI's spokesman in Atlanta, is seeking additional information about the arrest for comment.
But the more radical black leaders who have been speaking out about the Martin shooting and the Zimmerman trial say it fits a pattern of intimidation – the legal means to pull the worst malcontents off the streets for violations of probation or parole or bond to limit the perceived risk of post-verdict violence.
'It is no secret that the New Black Panther Party and its national leadership are targeted, jailed, and slated for removal,' said Chawn Kweli, the group's spokesman. 'We have been painted as the virtual cancer of America.'
When President Barack Obama commented that 'if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon,' last March, many conservatives immediately concluded that the administration wanted to inject its politics into the case for partisan gain. That view metastasized during the trial, with the idea that the Obama administration might be fomenting race riots ahead of the verdict gaining currency in the right-wing blogosphere.
Monday, two days after the verdict, it's become plain that the fears of Rodney King-style race riots in the wake of a not-guilty verdict were badly misplaced.
www.prisonplanet.com/obama-administration-law-enforcement-quietly-contained-potential-riot-instigators-ahead-of-zimmerman-verdict.html
I'm certainly no fan of these doofs but this one more sure step toward outright political arrests in the US.