A Justice Department prosecutor defied his superiors by testifying at a U.S. Civil Rights Commission hearing Friday, where he leveled an explosive allegation: top officials in the department gutted a voter intimidation case against a fringe African American militant group because the suspects were black and their alleged victims were white.
The prosecutor, Christopher Coates, also said the downgrading of the case against the New Black Panther Party was evidence of a Justice Department culture which discouraged “race neutral” enforcement of civil rights laws, frowned on prosecuting minority perpetrators and folded under pressure from black and Latino rights groups. After President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder took office, the culture intensified, Coates told the panel, ultimately leading to his departure as chief of the voting rights section early this year.
“They have not pursued the goal of equal protection of the law for all people,” he said.
Justice department officials, however, have vigorously defended their management of the Panthers’ case, in which two members of the small group allegedly attempted to intimidate voters at a Philadelphia polling place during the 2008 general election. Justice spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler in a statement Friday derided the Civil Rights Commission for its “so-called investigation” that is “thin on facts and evidence and thick on rhetoric.”
“The Department makes enforcement decisions based on the merits, not the race, gender or ethnicity of any party involved,” Schmaler said. “We are committed to comprehensive and vigorous enforcement of the federal laws that prohibit voter intimidation.”
But activists on the right have complained that Holder and the White House did not vigorously pursue the case because the victims were white – a claim that has now become a widespread talking point among Obama’s conservative critics. The right cried foul last year when Justice officials dropped the case against the NBPP and two defendants for lack of evidence and sought a watered-down injunction against the bearer of a nightstick who allegedly carried it to threaten whites.
Read More: By Josh Gerstein, Politico
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This is just the beginning. During the last days of man according to the Bible comes the Anti-Messiah(Marxist is an anti-messiah by definition) over Israel, a "name" given Joseph's children, not Judah(Gen. 48:16) and it is "Israel" who appoints the "anti-messiah" at the end of man's age. Looks as if Obama is "the" Anti-Messiah(Marxist over Israel) of Revelation, he'll also be the "forbidden foreigner"(Deut. 17:15) put over Israel by it's own women. Remember Eve? What comes next? Watch!
There is no such thing as "reverse racism". This is racism, pure and simple. It makes absolutely no difference what color the skin is of the offender, or the offended. Obama's entire demeanor is that of a racist. That has been evident since day one. Not evident? It certainly was to every Black American.
We all know how under handed this government works after all they come from Chicago.Did anyone expect
Holder to go after his own kind and the hispanic woman who issued the orders to go after whites only in voter fraud was giving her porch monkeys protection.People you have to remember Obuma is a marxist muslim and nothing will change that.If Obuma was honest he would fire Holder.
Big Trouble For The Obama Administration & The Department Of Justice!
The United States Civil Rights Commission will be diligent in pursuing any allegations of Voter intimidation or violations & lack of Race Neutral Enforcement of Civil Rights Laws.
This blatent violation of the publics trust pertaining to The New Black Panther Party by Attorney General
Eric Holder & President Obama if implicated & in fact wrong doing is proven could in fact & most likely
will lead to Impeachment proceedings against Presidential Obama.
President Obama and Eric Holder, would the same treatment be given to the KKK as the New Black Panther Party received, for timidating voters at a voting place?
I read somewhere where the civil Service people in Washington were happy with their jobs. As long as you have Eric Holder holding a brick over there heads they will do as said to. I know and alot of others know that if they want to work then do as said. So the DOJ does as told.