Rev. Al was quick to mouth off and intends to head down to Florida
That rabblerousing charlatan, Al Sharpton, took quick advantage of the Zimmerman acquittal to reclaim the spotlight. Look for the phony reverend to fan the flames of racial hatred all over the country.
Sharpton called Zimmerman's acquittal a dangerous atrocity and a "slap in the face to the American people." Sharpton said: "We intend to ask the Department of Justice to move forward as they did in the Rodney King case and we will closely monitor the civil case against Mr. Zimmerman. I will convene an emergency call with preachers tonight to discuss next steps and I intend to head to Florida in the next few days."
Jesse Jackson, while urging demonstrators to remain peaceful, called the verdict "Old South justice."
Here are some other reactions:
Ben Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP asked, "How is it that young Trayvon Martin could be killed by George Zimmerman, and George Zimmerman gets no time when [professional football player] Michael Vick got two-and-a-half years for killing dogs?”
Breitbart Sports reports that New York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz sent a threatening tweet in which he said, “Zimmerman doesn't last a year before the hood catches up to him."
Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pennsylvania, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, said: "If you take race out of this, what you have is a young person who died who wanted to buy some candy, was innocent, was not involved in any criminal activity, and a person who officials had asked not to follow him took a gun and killed him, and now that person will get his gun back."
Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump said: “…..I don’t know if George Zimmerman is a racist or not, but he profiled Trayvon Martin for something, whether the way he looked or this ethnicity. We will never know, but I know that he got out of his car. He made the decision to pursue Trayvon Martin…..you cannot have people kill unarmed teenagers walking home legally, whether they’re black, white, brown, or red, and say, ‘It’s okay. We’re not going to arrest you.’”
NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg said: "Sadly, all the facts in this tragic case will probably never be known. But one fact has long been crystal clear: 'shoot first' laws like those in Florida can inspire dangerous vigilantism and protect those who act recklessly with guns. Such laws - drafted by gun lobby extremists in Washington - encourage deadly confrontations by enabling people to shoot first and argue 'justifiable homicide' later,"
Here are some opposite reactions:
Rocker Ted Nugent said, “The entire prosecutorial team should be ashamed of themselves and disbarred for kowtowing to the hateful anti-justice racist pressures.”
Former Republican National Chairman Michael Steele said, “If George Zimmerman were black, he never would have been charged with a crime.”
Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said: “[Special prosecutor Angela Corey] had in her possession photographs that would definitely show a judge that this was not an appropriate case for second-degree murder. She deliberately withheld and suppressed those photographs, refused to show them to the judge, got the judge to rule erroneously this was a second-degree murder case.”
And the media kept stirring up the pot with a flood of pictures showing an angelic-looking happy Trayvon Martin in his childhood from toddler to teen, even one with him riding a horse.
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