oped: Barack Obama and Eric Holder DOJ are responsible for any and all damage,injuries or deaths associated with rioting in response to the Zimmerman Verdict...there are Federal Laws against inciting riots...
18 USC 2101 : US Code-Section 2101 Riots
5 USC 7313-Riots and Civil Disorders/Title 5
by:
Aaron Klein
Under a lawsuit settlement reached earlier this month, the American
Civil Liberties Union now must be consulted before Oakland, Calif.,
police can alter their crowd control policies.
The agreement now may be called into question following
WND’s exclusive report
yesterday that revealed the ACLU is a full partner of the main group
that has been agitating the protest movement surrounding the Trayvon
Martin case.
Commentators have been perplexed at how Martin protest crowds last
Sunday were reportedly able to control Oakland streets for more than
three hours, terrorizing drivers and attacking reporters without police
interference.
KGO-TV in San Francisco reported
that on Sunday, following the George Zimmerman verdict, “for more than
three hours, protesters had complete control of 14th and Broadway near
Oakland City Hall, preventing any cars from getting through.”
The report said that at about 8:30 p.m., police opened the
intersection to traffic, but the situation “quickly deteriorated when
demonstrators surrounded frightened drivers who found themselves
trapped. The crowd forced them to turn around.”
“Oakland police officers that had been near the corner retreated,
leaving the helpless drivers without police protection. It’s unclear who
gave that command.”
KGO documented reporters were attacked by protesters, including a journalist from a partner media group.
“A reporter with our media partner the Bay Area News Group tweeted
that she and her photographer were attacked by the crowd. She also
tweeted that demonstrators attacked a TV cameraman,” reported KGO.
The police reluctance to stop the violent crowds came 11 days after
the city of Oakland agreed to pay approximately $1 million to end a
lawsuit filed on behalf of 150 Occupy demonstrators alleging police
misconduct during a 2010 mass arrest.
The class-action lawsuit was filed by the radical National Lawyers Guild in coordination with the ACLU.
The
Los Angeles Times reported
that as part of the settlement, the Oakland Police Department agreed to
negotiate future changes to its crowd control policy with the ACLU and
National Lawyers Guild.
The settlement also places U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson in
charge of ensuring implementation of the agreement for the next seven
years.
The ACLU’s involvement in brokering Oakland police crown control policies may now be considered controversial after
WND’s report yesterday
detailing the legal advocacy group is partnered with Dream Defenders,
the main group leading the Trayvon Martin protests in Florida.
Dream Defenders has been agitating Martin protests since the onset
and has been credited with successfully advocating for Zimmerman’s
arrest.
The group was behind the protests that blockaded the Sanford Police
Department, demanding the police chief be fired for failing to bring
charges against Zimmerman, who was acquitted of second-degree murder
Saturday.
The small Community Relations Service at Eric Holder’s Justice Department
facilitated a meeting between Dream Defenders and city officials that resulted in a Justice review of the police department.
Sanford police chief Bill Lee ultimately was fired. Lee has claimed he was dismissed for not arresting Zimmerman.
Dream Defenders further led protests and marches demanding Zimmerman’s arrest. Just prior to Zimmerman’s arrest in April 2012,
the Justice Department reportedly phoned Dream Defenders to inform the group that Zimmerman was to be arrested within 48 hours.
The group is now organizing protests in the wake of Zimmerman’s
acquittal. On Tuesday, Dream Defenders demonstrated outside the Seminole
County Capitol building and other locations.
Dream Defenders bills itself as a nonviolent sustainable network of
youth and student leaders fighting for social change. The group says it
trains youth and students in civil disobedience, direct action and civic
engagement.
The group is made up of students and recent graduates from several
Florida universities and is openly backed by SEIU, the ACLU and the
Soros-supported Southern Poverty Law Center.
The groups have held joint initiatives on many occasions. In January, for example,
Dream Defenders, the ACLU and the Southern Poverty Law Center held a community town hall in Tallahassee “to discuss the issue of keeping our children in the school system and out of the juvenile justice system.”
Dream Defenders’ ties to these are other radical groups go much deeper.
WND found that Gabriel Pendas, Dream Defenders’ organizer, is also
employed as “Lead Organizer” by the SEIU. Pendas has been organizing Dream Defenders’ marches for Martin.
Pendas, who openly identifies as a socialist, previously served as
president of the heavily Soros-backed United States Student Association.
The student association is a member of the small Free Exchange on
Campus, a group created to oppose the efforts of conservatives who speak
at American college campuses. The group seems to mostly focus on
opposing the campus education initiatives of former radical David
Horowitz.
The
far-left Rootscamp.com wrote that without Pendas “there would be no Dream Defenders.”
Continued the website: “With his leadership, within months, a
sprawling organization uniting black and brown youth across the state
was formed. We have now built the structure necessary to develop youth
leadership while also directly challenging racial injustice, the
prison-industrial complex, and the criminalization of minority
communities.”
Meanwhile,
Dream Defenders’ political director is Ciara Taylor,
who also serves as campaign coordinator for the ACLU. She previously
was community outreach liaison at the Southern Poverty Law Center.
A
Dream Defender founder is Phillip B. Agnew, who also serves as the group’s executive director. Agnew is also listed as a paid SEIU organizer.
Nelini Stamp is a Dream Defenders director. In 2011, Stamp served as
an organizer for the ACORN front group Working Families Party.
Stamp was interviewed as one of the earliest Occupy Wall Street organizers.
“We are actually trying to change the capitalist system we have today, because it’s not working for any of us,” Stamp said.
Stamp participated in the “Take Back the Dream” movement with Van Jones, the infamous former “green” jobs adviser to President Obama.
In a
November 2012 piece she wrote for Prospect.org, Stamp hailed the organizing efforts of something called the Midwest Academy.
“The Midwest Academy and the Highlander Research and Education Center
train organizers, but we have nothing like them in most states and
localities. By 2016 and 2020, several more states will have become
majority-minority, and we need to be able to shape that change,” she
wrote.
Midwest is an activist organization described as teaching the tactics
of direct action, confrontation and intimidation as advocated by
notorious radical community organizer Saul Alinsky.
WND was first to expose
that Obama himself funded the Midwest Academy when he served on the
board of the Chicago Woods Fund from 1999 to December 2002 alongside
unrepentant Weatherman terrorist Bill Ayers.
With additional research by Joshua Klein and Brenda J. Elliott