Documents detail Justice Dept. role in Trayvon Martin rallies

Attorney General Eric Holder (left) and Al Sharpton are very good friends.

Judicial Watch obtained documents showing the Justice Dept. (DOJ) helped to organize rallies in Florida against George Zimmerman in March and April last year.

The documents reveal that a unit of the U.S. Department of Justice, the Community Relations Service (CRS), was deployed to Sanford, Florida following the Trayvon Martin shooting to help organize and manage rallies and protests against George Zimmerman.

The records say that from March 25 to April 12, 2012, the CRS spent a total of $5,320.88 in Sanford to provide "technical support" and assistance for protest marches and rallies.This total does not include, of course, the salaries and normal expense accounts of the CRS employees involved.

Judicial Watch also received thousands of pages of emails from the state of Florida, which included one from Miami-Dade County Community Relations Board Program Officer Amy Carswell congratulating the DOJ CRS for their "outstanding and ongoing efforts" in Sanford, FL.

You can read all about it here.

Miami-Dade County Community Relations Board Program Officer Amy Carswell - See more at: http://www.judicialwatch.org./press-room/press-releases/documents-obtain...

Miami-Dade County Community Relations Board Program Officer Amy Carswell - See more at: http://www.judicialwatch.org./press-room/press-releases/documents-obtain...