12-14-2014, 06:34 PM
12 December 2014 the Department of Justice sent some Community Relations Service members to Panola County MS.
The officials are members of the DOJ’s Community Relations Service, also known as “The Peacemakers,” a special unit established under the 1964 Civil Rights Act and empowered to act to mitigate local tensions between ethnic groups.
From the CRS website:
It is the only Federal entity dedicated to assisting state and local government units, private and public organizations, and community groups with preventing and resolving racial and ethnic tensions, incidents, and civil disorders. The CRS works to restore stability and accord.
UPDATE: 2:00pm 12/9/14 (EST) "Coincidentally" DOJ Attorney General Eric Holder is in Mississippi today for a My Brother’s Keeper speech. Notably he cancelled a following timed engagement for "pressing matters".
In addition, according to people on the ground in Panola County, the DOJ-CRS entered the case this morning. For those of you unfamiliar, the DOJ-CRS is the federal "Department of Justice – Community Relations Service".
The CRS involvement means essentially that local officials and MBI (Mississippi Bureau of Investigation) will have specific guidelines to follow with any/all media contacts. The media will be given a specific, sensitive, heavily controlled messaging narrative.
Why would DOJ need to send the CRS to Panola County because a young woman was burned to death? Do they already know who killed Jessica Chambers? Are they anticipating civil unrest? Are they there to protect suspected gang members? Or are they there to protect the narrative, to make sure that the most PC version of events are what the media reports?
I do not believe this was a bias crime, that Jessica was killed solely because she was white. However, I do believe that the local Black Squad gang was responsible or at least knows who killed her and why.
The officials are members of the DOJ’s Community Relations Service, also known as “The Peacemakers,” a special unit established under the 1964 Civil Rights Act and empowered to act to mitigate local tensions between ethnic groups.
From the CRS website:
It is the only Federal entity dedicated to assisting state and local government units, private and public organizations, and community groups with preventing and resolving racial and ethnic tensions, incidents, and civil disorders. The CRS works to restore stability and accord.
UPDATE: 2:00pm 12/9/14 (EST) "Coincidentally" DOJ Attorney General Eric Holder is in Mississippi today for a My Brother’s Keeper speech. Notably he cancelled a following timed engagement for "pressing matters".
In addition, according to people on the ground in Panola County, the DOJ-CRS entered the case this morning. For those of you unfamiliar, the DOJ-CRS is the federal "Department of Justice – Community Relations Service".
The CRS involvement means essentially that local officials and MBI (Mississippi Bureau of Investigation) will have specific guidelines to follow with any/all media contacts. The media will be given a specific, sensitive, heavily controlled messaging narrative.
Why would DOJ need to send the CRS to Panola County because a young woman was burned to death? Do they already know who killed Jessica Chambers? Are they anticipating civil unrest? Are they there to protect suspected gang members? Or are they there to protect the narrative, to make sure that the most PC version of events are what the media reports?
I do not believe this was a bias crime, that Jessica was killed solely because she was white. However, I do believe that the local Black Squad gang was responsible or at least knows who killed her and why.