Orion_70 Posted May 29, 2009 Report Share Posted May 29, 2009 http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2009/05/29/charges-black-panthers-dropped-obama/ Charges Against 'New Black Panthers' Dropped by Obama Justice Dept. Three men were accused of trying to threaten voters and block poll and campaign workers by the threat of force -- one even brandishing what prosecutors call a deadly weapon. FOXNews.com Friday, May 29, 2009 [/url] Charges brought against three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense under the Bush administration have been dropped by the Obama Justice Department, FOX News has learned. The charges stemmed from an incident at a Philadelphia polling place on Election Day 2008 when three members of the party were accused of trying to threaten voters and block poll and campaign workers by the threat of force -- one even brandishing what prosecutors call a deadly weapon. The three black panthers, Minister King Samir Shabazz, Malik Zulu Shabazz and Jerry Jackson were charged in a civil complaint in the final days of the Bush administration with violating the voter rights act by using coercion, threats and intimidation. Shabazz allegedly held a nightstick or baton that prosecutors said he pointed at people and menacingly tapped it. Prosecutors also say he "supports racially motivated violence against non-blacks and Jews." VIDEO: Click to watch the incident on YouTube The complaint says the men hurled racial slurs at both blacks and whites. A poll watcher who provided an affidavit to prosecutors in the case noted that Bartle Bull, who worked as a civil rights lawyer in the south in the 1960's and is a former campaign manager for Robert Kennedy, said it was the most blatant form of voter intimidation he had ever seen. In his affidavit, obtained by FOX News, Bull wrote "I watched the two uniformed men confront voters and attempt to intimidate voters. They were positioned in a location that forced every voter to pass in close proximity to them. The weapon was openly displayed and brandished in plain sight of voters." He also said they tried to "interfere with the work of other poll observers ... whom the uniformed men apparently believed did not share their preferences politically," noting that one of the panthers turned toward the white poll observers and said "you are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker." A spokesman for the Department of Justice told FOX News, "The Justice Department was successful in obtaining an injunction that prohibits the defendant who brandished a weapon outside a Philadelphia polling place from doing so again. Claims were dismissed against the other defendants based on a careful assessment of the facts and the law. The department is committed to the vigorous prosecution of those who intimidate, threaten or coerce anyone exercising his or her sacred right to vote." FOX News' Eric Shawn contributed to this report. You need to watch that video. How charges could be dropped against these people is very very disturbing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted May 29, 2009 Report Share Posted May 29, 2009 Have not watched the clip, but pretty sure I heard something on this back in November and probably saw those same thugs on the news. No way those charges should have been dropped, had it been the other way around Jesse and Al would be all over the media until long after the men were prosecuted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m gardner Posted May 29, 2009 Report Share Posted May 29, 2009 Are the "new" Black Panthers on the "terrorist list" compiled by the Homeland Security Dept.? I don't remember them being mentioned, just vets and other troublemakers. I do remember the "old" Black Panthers. We would go to the "big city" once every month or two to shop. We passed through Troy, New York and at the top of Hoosick Street they had a big pit they kept burning that they were going to burn white folks in when the revolution came. This was in the late 1960's. I hope the new ones are nicer, but it seems that that was more than we could hope for. Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebeilgard Posted May 30, 2009 Report Share Posted May 30, 2009 those boys are as much fun as the kkk, or just as bad. hate of any color is just hate for hateing's sake. i think god made us all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireStrut Posted May 30, 2009 Report Share Posted May 30, 2009 I watched the You Tube video and the black dude said he was with security. Could he be with the new army that obama was talking about where he has complete control over. Just like Hitler and he's brown shirts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m gardner Posted May 30, 2009 Report Share Posted May 30, 2009 those boys are as much fun as the kkk, or just as bad. hate of any color is just hate for hateing's sake. i think god made us all. Yep, I love to talk to the quasi christian hate folks and point out that Jesus was a Jew and Moses was an Ethiopian. Too much fun to resist. Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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