Political appointees in the Justice Department of the failed Obama administration have overruled career lawyers in the department and dropped civil charges against members of the New Black Panther party surrounding alleged voter intimidation at a polling place in Philadelphia last November.

As reported here on Election Day, men dressed in Black Panther Party garb, at least one wielding a night stick, were accused of blocking access to the polling place and making threatening statements to the white voters who tried to enter.

[The individuals] were blocking white voters from entering a polling place in Philadelphia while complaining that they were “tired of White Supremacy” and stating “a black man is going to win this election no matter what.”

Charges were filed against the men under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Justice Department was “on the verge of securing sanctions against the men.” But then the Obama appointees stepped in on their behalf.

The court had already entered a default judgment against the men on April 20.

A Justice Department spokesman on Thursday confirmed that the agency had dropped the case, dismissing two of the men from the lawsuit with no penalty and winning an order against the third man that simply prohibits him from bringing a weapon to a polling place in future elections.

The department was “successful in obtaining an injunction that prohibits the defendant who brandished a weapon outside a Philadelphia polling place from doing so again,” spokesman Alejandro Miyar said. “Claims were dismissed against the other defendants based on a careful assessment of the facts and the law.”

Just another day in the “Chavezing” of America, I guess.  What’s the harm? They were just community organizing like Dear Leader.

The civil suit filed Jan. 7 identified the three men as members of the Panthers and said they wore military-style uniforms, black berets, combat boots, battle-dress pants, black jackets with military-style insignias and were armed with “a dangerous weapon”and used racial slurs and insults to scare would-be voters and those there to assist them at the Philadelphia polling location on Nov. 4.

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To support its evidence, the government had secured an affidavit from Bartle Bull, a longtime civil rights activist and former aide to Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 presidential campaign. Mr. Bull said in a sworn statement dated April 7 that he was serving in November as a credentialed poll watcher in Philadelphia when he saw the three uniformed Panthers confront and intimidate voters with a nightstick.

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The three men named in the complaint – New Black Panther Chairman Malik Zulu Shabazz, Minister King Samir Shabazz and Jerry Jackson – refused to appear in court to answer the accusations over a near-five month period, court records said.

How did that one guy get tagged with an odd name like “Jerry Jackson?”

The New Black Panther Party reportedly has 27 chapters operating across the United States, Britain, the Caribbean and Africa. Its Web page said it has become “a great witness to the validity of the works of the original Black Panther Party,” which was founded in 1966 in Oakland, Calif.

Two video reports, the first showing the voter intimidation that the Obama administration doesn’t care about and the second a FOX News report from the scene on Election Day, are below.

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