Below
is an email from Benjamin Todd Jealous, President of the NAACP, who started a
petition on the MoveOn website.
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Dear MoveOn member,
Tonight, a jury acquitted George Zimmerman.
But we are not done demanding justice for Trayvon Martin.
We're calling on the U.S. Justice Department to open a
civil rights case against George Zimmerman and have launched a petition to
Attorney General Eric Holder. The petition says:
The Department of Justice has closely
monitored the State of Florida's prosecution of the case against George
Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin murder since it began. Today, with the
acquittal of George Zimmerman, it is time for the Department of Justice to
act.
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. We ask that the Department of Justice
file civil rights charges against Mr. Zimmerman for this egregious
violation.
Please address the travesties of the
tragic death of Trayvon Martin by acting today. Thank you.
Thanks!
–Benjamin Todd Jealous
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