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Defend America on Tuesday, August 04, 2009 4:37:49 PM
Panel blasts Panther case dismissal
Jerry Seper (Contact)
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is demanding that the Justice
Department explain why it recently dismissed a civil complaint against
members of the New Black Panther Party who disrupted a Philadelphia
polling place during last year's election, saying the department has
offered only "weak justifications."
Commission Chairman Gerald A. Reynolds, a former deputy associate
attorney general under President George W. Bush, said he fears the
legal precedent set by the department in its May decision to drop the
case might encourage "other hate groups" to act similarly at polling
locations in the future.
Mr. Reynolds also charged that other groups might not have been treated so leniently.
"If you swap out the New Black Panther Party in this case for neo-Nazi
groups or the Ku Klux Klan, you likely would have had a different
outcome," he told The Washington Times in a telephone interview Monday.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/04/panel-demands-panther-answers/print/