you can thank Bush DOJ for that but then they also set a precedent for it in 2006:
# The Bush administration’s Justice Department — not the Obama administration — made the decision not to pursue criminal charges against members of the New Black Panther Party for alleged voter intimidation at a polling center in Philadelphia in 2008;
# The Obama administration successfully obtained default judgment against Samir Shabazz, a member of the New Black Panther Party carrying a nightstick outside the Philadelphia polling center on Election Day 2008;
# The Bush administration DOJ chose not to pursue similar charges against members of the Minutemen, one of whom allegedly carried a weapon while harassing Hispanic voters in Arizona in 2006;
# No voters have come forward to claim that they were intimidated from voting on account of the New Black Panthers standing outside the polling center in 2008;
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/adam_serwer_archive?month=07&year=2010&base_name=when_was_the_new_black_panther
http://mediamatters.org/research/201007070020
Those are good articles and facts, but there's still a lot that doesn't add up about this whole thing.
Watch these clips:
In the last one, listen to the reporter asking questions ON SITE.
With the remaining Panther, we see irrational defensiveness as well as plenty of inconsistencies and denial of simple things we saw firsthand in the student’s video.
Panther: Why are you here with a camera? I don’t want you recording me.
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Panther: Nobody here has a nightstick, and so I don’t know watch’you talkin’ about.
Reporter: Well, there was a person with a nightstick. We have video of it:
Panther: I don’t care about what was. I’m talkin’ about what is.
Reporter: Okay, well that person was escorted out of here by the police, correct?
Panther: I don’t know watch’you talkin’ about.
Reporter: We have video that shows the person with a nightstick standing next to you on this very curb.
Panther: You have me telling you you have no authorization to be here at this polling station. That’s what you got.
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Originally claiming to be security - later confirmed to be a poll-watcher, he sure seemed flustered and defensive for somebody who’s innocent of any wrongdoing.
