SD, this is the weakest of defenses...
Since the episode has been captured on vid for all to see, and since a civil rights attorney, Mr. Bull, witnessed the event, and has the experience of the voter registration wars in the South in another era, surely his conclusion carries more weight than the political appointee who said 'not enough evidence' AFTER the case was won...
When you are in a clearer thinking period, I'm sure reponderation will change your position.
Why wasn't the video presented in court if it's real evidence? You have Adams unsubstantiated allegation which amounts to hearsay.
I make my decisions based on facts. I don't have enough information yet.
Too many 'analysts' not enough evidence. There is precedent for this kind of DOJ decision in previous administrations.
Perez highlighted a case that completely undermines the notion that the DOJ's decisions in the Black Panthers case were unprecedented or racially motivated. Perez testified that in 2006, the Justice Department "declined to bring any action for alleged voter intimidation" "when three well-known anti-immigrant advocates affiliated with the Minutemen, one of whom was carrying a gun, allegedly intimidated Latino voters at a polling place by approaching several persons, filming them, and advocating and printing voting materials in Spanish." [U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 5/14/10
I don't recall any disgruntled leftist employees of the DOJ calling the Bush adminstration racist, do you?
You seem not conversant with the case.
The two were convicted, and the judge merely awaited the suggestion for punishment by the DoJ...then the NAACP intervened, put pressure on the administration to quash the case, and ...walah! it was dropped, and attorney Adams states that the lawyers in the department were told that this type of case, i.e. black parpetrator, white victim in elections, would no longer be brought.
Based on his position, AG Holder had to have been involved in said decision.
QED. racist.
I'm suggesting that you abjure the doctrinaire approach, and consider the words of our great 16th President:
"Stand with anybody that stands RIGHT. Stand with him while he is right and PART with him when he goes wrong."
Abraham Lincoln, Speech at Peoria, Illinois (October 16, 1854),