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发帖数: 3205 | 1 NAACP asking Obama administration to pursue civil case against Zimmerman
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/07/14/naacp-asking-obama-administration-to-pursue-zimmerman-civil-case/#ixzz2Z2nHMoXW
The NAACP is asking the Justice Department to open a civil rights case
against George Zimmerman, the Florida neighborhood watch captain acquitted
Saturday night by a jury in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous started the drive by posting a
petition Sunday morning on the website MoveOn.org that is addressed to
Attorney General Eric Holder.
"The most fundamental of civil rights -- the right to life -- was violated
the night George Zimmerman stalked and then took the life of Trayvon Martin,
" Jealous wrote in the petition.
The Justice Department has already been reviewing the handling of the
criminal case in which Zimmerman, a Hispanic, fatally shot Martin, a black
teen, in February 2012, raising concerns about such issues as racial
profiling and equal justice.
Jealous told CNN’s “State of the Union on Sunday morning, “There is
reason to be concerned that race was a factor in why (Zimmerman) targeted
young Trayvon.”
He also said he has not spoken directly with Holder but has spoken to his
senior people.
“We are glad that what they began months back continues, which is a serious
reviewing of everything that came out in this case, everything that was
known before this case,” Jealous said. “If this moves into a civil phase,
they will review all that comes out in that and then they will make a choice
about whether or not they will pursue criminal civil rights charges.”
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