Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) lists “New Black Panthers” as “Black Separatist” Hate Group
— Washington Times: “Justice transfers Panthers pursuer out of D.C. office”
— Washington Times reports: “The veteran Justice Department voting rights section chief who recommended going forward on a civil complaint against members of the New Black Panther Party after they disrupted a Pennsylvania polling place in last year’s elections has been removed from his post and transferred to the U.S. attorney’s office in South Carolina”
— “Justice Department officials confirmed Monday that Christopher Coates, who signed off on the complaint’s filing in federal court in Philadelphia in January accusing the party and three of its members of civil rights violations, would begin his new assignment next month.”
— “The complaint, which accused party members of intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place while wearing black berets, black combat boots, black dress shirts and black jackets with military-style markings, and wielding a nightstick, was later dismissed by Obama administration political appointees at the Justice Department.”
— “The incident gained national attention when it was captured on videotape and distributed on YouTube.”
— “Kevin McDonald, spokesman for U.S. Attorney W. Walter Wilkins in Columbia, S.C., confirmed Monday that Mr. Coates had been ‘detailed’ to that office and that officials there were “looking forward to his arrival.” He said the veteran civil rights attorney had been assigned to the office’s criminal division.”
New Black Panthers Hate Group Reportedly Harrass Voters at a Philadelphia, PA Voting Poll
SPLC on the New Black Panthers Group:
— “The new group rose to prominence in the late 1990s under the leadership of Khalid Abdul Muhammad, who previously was the leading spokesman for the black separatist Nation of Islam, but whose incendiary rhetoric turned out too extreme even for that organization. In a September 2000 speech, he railed against ‘the hooked-nose, bagel-eatin’, lox-eatin’, perpetrating-a-fraud, just-crawled-out-of-the-caves-and-hills-of-Europe, so-called, wannabe, imposter Jew,’ and also said, ‘There’s only two kinds of white folks, there’s only two kinds, bad white folks and worse white folks.’ ”
— “Khalid Muhammad died in 2001 and leadership passed to Malik Zulu Shabazz, who once praised his predecessor for being a man ‘who gives the white man nightmares… who makes the Jews pee in their pants at night.’ Zulu Shabazz was one of three party members named in the original Justice Department complaint in December.”
Other R.E.A.L. Postings referencing the Black Panthers
Justice Department Takes a Second Look at New Black Panthers Voter-Intimidation Case
Justice Department Opens Inquiry Into New Black Panther Case
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Panel blasts Panther case dismissal
Decision to Drop Suit Against Black Panthers in Poll Intimidation Approved by Associate AG
Black Panthers had wielded weapons, blocked polls
— PDF: House on Judiciary – Lamar Smith Letter — May 28, 2009
— PDF: DOJ Complaint Against Black Panthers
— YouTube Video of Black Panther activities at election polls
— “‘Security’ patrols stationed at polling places in Philly”