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Jack45 -> RE: Racial Bias At The Justice Department (7/6/2010 12:47:30 PM)
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ADAMS: Inside the Black Panther case Anger, ignorance and lies - Washington Times
On Election Day, three leaders of the New Black Panther Party, King Samir Shabazz, Malik Zulu Shabazz and Jerry Jackson, were videotaped in paramilitary uniformed wielding nightsticks outside of a polling station in Philadelphia intimidating poll observers and voters. Poll watcher Bartle Bull signed an affidavit stating “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… “Their clear purpose and intent was to intimidate voters with whom they did not agree. Their views were, in part, made apparent by the uniform of the organization the two men wore and the racially charged statements they made. For example, I heard the shorter man make a statement directed toward white poll observers that ‘you are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker.’”
Bull has impeccable anti-racist credentials. He worked as a civil rights lawyer in the 1960s where he filed lawsuits against municipalities in Mississippi that he said were disenfranchising African Americans. Bull concluded, that the actions by the New Black Panthers qualified “as the most blatant form of voter intimidation I have encountered in my life in political campaigns in many states, even going back to the work I did in Mississippi in the 1960s.” The US Commission on Civil Rights filed a complaint against the New Black Panthers. They refused to show up in court or even respond to the charges. Just as sanctions were about to brought, the Justice Department dismissed the USCCR’s complaint because "the facts and the law did not support pursuing" it. Of course, Justice did not really give any elaboration as to what particular facts were missing and why the law wasn’t violated.
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