White people are everywhere! Arghhh.......
Laugh it up, but I recall that folks got VERY up in arms about the idea of the Black Panthers at polling places in 2008. This is the same thing. Would you still be laughing if the Black Panthers and BLM were openly and actively stating they were planning to show up in the rural areas to "monitor the vote" or possibly intimidate voters?
Nothing in this article is laughable. You have folks claiming they're sneaking into schools to set up cameras. You have folks actively talking about showing up to intimidate voters. This is 1800's level crap and we'd moved past this. At least that's what we'd thought.
I wonder if the AG would prosecute a white nationalist if they showed up with a night stick and intimidated black voters. NOTHING happened to the Black Panthers that did that to intimidate white voters in 2008.
Two guys show up at one polling place & left when asked. Criminal charges were brought but dropped under the Bush Administration.
That is half of the story, Here is the rest of the story.
"The Department of Justice became aware of the incident on Election Day and started an inquiry. Under the Bush Administration, a criminal investigation into the incident was started, but later dropped. In January 2009, less than two weeks before the Bush Administration left office, the
Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice filed a civil suit under the
Voting Rights Act against four defendants, namely, Minister King Samir Shabazz, Jerry Jackson, NBPP chairman
Malik Zulu Shabazz, and the NBPP itself. The lawsuit accused them of using uniforms, racial insults and a weapon to intimidate voters and those who were there to assist them. The case remained open when the Obama administration took office a few weeks later.
In April 2009 Bartle Bull, a former civil rights lawyer who was serving as a poll watcher at the polling station where the incident occurred, submitted an
affidavit at the Department of Justice's request supporting the lawsuit, stating that he considered it to have been the most severe instance of voter intimidation he had ever encountered. When none of the defendants who were charged appeared in court to answer the charges, the career attorneys pursuing the lawsuit assumed that they would win it by
default. However the move to pursue a default judgment was overruled by two of their line superiors, Loretta King, who was acting Assistant Attorney General, and Steve Rosenbaum, Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General."
The fix was in, and with Holder as AG, they knew they didn't even have to show up for court to win.