Zimmerman family challenges Holder on New Black Panthers, says no arrests ‘based solely on your race’ | The Daily Caller

Zimmerman family challenges Holder on New Black Panthers, says no arrests ‘based solely on your race’ | The Daily Caller

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 08: Attorney General Eric Holder participates in a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing March 8, 2012 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday, obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller, a family member of George Zimmerman asked the nation’s top law enforcement officer why he has chosen to not arrest members of the New Black Panther Party for their rhetoric — some of which may fit the federal government’s definition of a hate crime — throughout the Trayvon Martin case.
The family member believes the reason Holder hasn’t made those arrests is because he, like the members of the New Black Panther Party, is black.
“I am writing you to ask you why, when the law of the land is crystal clear, is your office not arresting the New Black Panthers for hate crimes?” the family member wrote to Holder.

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