Mikhail Muhammad, of the Nation of Islam's New Black Panther Party division, offering a $10,000 bounty on George Zimmerman's head
NBPP leader Malik Zulu Shabazz and "Barack Obama" sharing a stage in 2007, during the latter's presidential campaign. I know of no other public figure for whom there are so few photographs available on the Web.By Nicholas Stix
You can only offer a bounty for someone’s capture, if a warrant has already been issued for his arrest. Absent a warrant, the law calls “capturing” someone kidnapping, a federal felony for which one can be sentenced to life in prison, and which is death penalty eligible, should the kidnappee should die during the commission of the crime.
Some reports on the Web said that the Panthers initially made a poster saying that the offer was for George Zimmerman, “dead or alive,” but I have not been able to confirm that. The Panthers now claim that the bounty is for Zimmerman “alive,” but the offering of the bounty still constitutes, at minimum, attempted kidnapping.
The New Black Panther Party (NBPP) is led by Malik Zulu Shabazz, who is a member of the Nation of Islam (NOI). Because the NOI will not tolerate competing organizations within itself, I have concluded that the NBPP has merged with the NOI. Because Shabazz is so powerful, I consider him the heir apparent to NOI head, Min. Louis Farrakhan. After all, Farrakhan’s path to power was through leading the NOI’s Fruit of Islam, which functions as the murder cult’s palace guard, security detail, and assassin division.
In recent years, Shabazz has taken up residence in Detroit, where he seeks to seize power, under the guise of fighting crime. In Detroit, he calls himself “Min. Malik Shabazz.” In dealings with the national media, he is referring to himself as “Dr. Malik Zulu Shabazz.” I know of no record of Shabazz earning a doctorate, or of his being ordained a minister. My hunch is that the MSM are switching titles, in order to keep people from asking, “minister of what,” which would lead some to discover that he is a member of the Nation of Islam.
Shabazz likes to work through or with fronts. This may due to his own notoriety, to protect himself legally, hide the NOI connection, or to make himself look like a grand leader, who has officers in the field. I’m not sure, because Shabazz enjoys so much protection via followers in the media who cover for him, that there has been little solid investigative reporting done on him, in recent years.
Thus, in Detroit, he has Raphael B. Johnson fronting for him, and in Florida, Mikhail Muhammad.
[The NOI/NBPP] accused newly-appointed special prosecutor Angela Corley of being an enemy of the black community.
"She has a track record of sending innocent young black men and women to prison," he said.
Translation: Corley has a track record of sending guilty-as-hell young black men and women to prison, but according to the NOI, all blacks are innocent, because “the white man’s laws” do not apply to them.
Shabazz is an ally of the John Doe calling himself “Barack Obama,” whom he visited in the White House, soon after the latter's inauguration.
Trayvon Martin: New Black Panthers offer $10,000 bounty for capture of shooter George Zimmerman
By Arelis R. Hernandez
6:28 p.m. EST, March 24, 2012
Orlando Sentinel
SANFORD — Members of the New Black Panther Party are offering a $10,000 reward for the "capture" of George Zimmerman, the Neighborhood Watch volunteer who shot Trayvon Martin.
New Black Panther leader Mikhail Muhammad announced the reward during a protest in Sanford Saturday. And when asked whether he was inciting violence, Muhammad replied defiantly: "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."
The bounty announcement came moments after members of the group called for the mobilization of 10,000 black men to capture Zimmerman, who shot Trayvon in a gated Sanford community on Feb. 26.
Muhammad said members of his group would search for Zimmerman themselves in Maitland — where the 28-year old worked before the shooting, employees there told the Orlando Sentinel. He declined to say when the group would begin their search.
The firm where the Sentinel reported Zimmerman had been working said Saturday that he has not been to the company's Maitland office since the shooting.
Muhammad said the group's national chairman, Dr. Malik Zulu Shabaz ofWashington [sic], D.C.is receiving donations from black entertainers and athletes. They hope to collect $1 million by next week, Muhammad said. [I am not aware of Shabazz having earned any doctorate. In Detroit, he refers to himself as “minister,” but the MSM are switching titles, in order to keep people form asking, “minister of what,” which would lead some to discover that he is a member of the Nation of Ilsam.]
The party said they would not release the names of donors nor would they provide documentation to support the existence of donations.
The New Black Panthers announced the reward at a protest in Sanford Saturday, the activist group's third protest in the past two weeks over the fatal shooting of the Miami Gardens teen.
The group called for Zimmerman's arrest and threatened to find and detain him if police were not willing to do so. But group members didn't call for the mobilization of thousands until Saturday.
Muhammed led the group in chanting "Justice for Trayvon!" and "Black Power!"
"If the government won't do the job, we'll do it," Muhammad said, leading his group of eight party members in chants like "freedom or death" and "justice for Trayvon" while making the iconic gesture of raising their fists into the air.
City officials issued a statement, they said was approved by Sanford Police Captain Robert O'Connor, condemning the group's appeal and asking citizens to leave all arrests to them.
"The City is requesting calm heads and no vigilante justice," the statement said.
"Attempts by civilians to take any person into custody may result in criminal charges or unnecessary violence."
The party members said they are tired of the inaction of government officials — from Sanford city officials up to the Governor, accusing them of lying and delaying justice.
They accused newly-appointed special prosecutor Angela Corley of being an enemy of the black community.
"She has a track record of sending innocent young black men and women to prison," he said.
Sanford police arrived toward the end of the demonstration Saturday asking onlookers and media to avoid walking into the street in front of The Retreat at Twin Lakes where Trayvon was killed.
As the officer walked back to his cruiser, Muhammad berated and pointed angrily at him saying "If you'd had shown this much concern, Trayvon may still be alive today."
The fiery rhetoric and often profanity-laden diatribes made some visitors to the impromptu memorial uncomfortable.
Pastor Moses Brown of Tampa said he was disappointed with the Panthers' approach.
"We believe in a message of justice, not hate," said Brown, who was in town to pray at the memorial and attend the Monday event at Sanford's Civic Center. "We believe justice will come through the court system."
Brown, who is also the Chief executive officer of Feed Our Children, said he has been meeting with other Christian ministers to discuss the case.
While the Panthers chanted behind him, Brown said "I see parallel versions of how we are coping with this as a community. Some in anger and us, in prayer. But we are in America where we have our rights to expression."
Sanford resident James Tucker said the party's message is about vengeance not justice and will rouse a "lynch mob" that could spiral out of control into a race riot.
"I'm as much for black power as anybody but this is going to alienate the white friends we need to get things done," Tucker said, as he stood across the street from the demonstration.
Former Orange-Osceola County prosecutor Esther Whitehead said the Panthers' bounty opens them up to civil and possibly criminal liability.
"I can't see how anyone can go out and take action as a private citizen without some government action like the issuance of a warrant," she said. "It doesn't make sense. It doesn't sound reasonable."
The Southern Poverty Law Center says the New Black Panther Party, a black-separatist group founded in 1989, is "virulently racist and anti-Semitic," and its leaders have encouraged violence against whites, Jews and law officers.
Trayvon was killed Feb. 26 in the gated Retreat at Twin Lakes community while walking back to his father's fiancee's town house. Zimmerman spotted the unarmed teen and called the Sanford Police Department's nonemergency line to report a suspicious person.
Zimmerman shot Travon before officers could respond. Zimmerman told police he acted in self-defense. He has not been arrested and is not charged with a crime.
This is a breaking-news story. Check back for updates.
Susan Jacobson and Matthew Richardson of the Sentinel staff contributed to this report. arehernandez@tribune.com or @ahernandez_os
[On the Nation of Islam:
“Detroit: Was Delric Miller IV Murdered Over a Seat at a Baby Shower?; Are Genocidal Black Supremacist Malik Zulu Shabazz and the Nation of Islam Murder Cult Angling to Take Over City?”
“Lest We Forget: Remembering the Zebra Victims”;
“The Zebra Murders: The First Victims?”;
“The Nation of Islam's Sacramento Murders”; and
“The Oklahoma City Nation of Islam Murders.”
Previously, on the Trayvon Martin Hoax, at WEJB/NSU:
“Sanford, Florida: Black ‘Little Boy,’Trayvon Martin 17, Beat White ‘Vigilante’ George Zimmerman Bloody; Zimmerman Shot Martin Dead; Now Black WFTV ‘Reporter,’ Daralene Jones, Black Supremacists, and White Aunt Jemima Earwitness Demand That Zimmerman be Arrested”;
“Trayvon Martin: ABC ‘News’ Gets on Bandwagon, Acting as Martin’s Family Mouthpiece; Family Lawyer Refuses to Release All Information about Teen’s Last Phone Call to Girlfriend, but Insists That It Requires That George Zimmerman be Arrested ‘Right Now’”;
“Arrest First, Investigate Later: Press Conference by Lawyer Benjamin Crump, of Trayvon Martin’s Family, Seeks Through Violation of Due Process… to Railroad George Zimmerman”;
“News Coverage of the Trayvon Martin Case Keeps Getting Worse: New York Daily News Passes Off ABC News Hearsay as ‘Interview,’ While Changing the Hearsay!”;
“USA Today: ‘In wake of black teen Trayvon Martin's death, USA is soul-searching’; McPaper Invokes Jena 6, Quotes Al Sharpton, Self-Described ‘ThugNiggaIntellectual’ Mark Neal, and Jena Attacker Theo Shaw as Moral Authorities”;
“Why the Secret ‘Interview’ with Trayvon Martin’s Secret Girlfriend is Bogus, and His Alleged Last Cell Phone Call is Insignificant”;
“Another Trayvon Martin Supporter: Florida Atlantic U. Hate Crime Attacker Jonatha Carr Had Just been Interviewed about the Jena Six/Nuremberg-Style Rally She’s been Organizing; CBS12 News Tries to Rationalize Her Crimes”;
“Trayvon Martin’s Parents Attend New York City Riot Held on Their Behalf”;
“Associated Press and Penn Live: Arrest George Zimmerman for Killing Trayvon Martin, the Law be Damned! Let Zimmerman Prove His Innocence in Court!”
“National Review ‘Conservative’ Rich Lowry Goes to Bat for Al Sharpton in Trayvon Martin Case, Ignoring or Misrepresenting Facts of the Case”;
“Trayvon Martin Case: Real Eyewitness Supports Zimmerman’s Story, as Opposed to Lynch Mob’s Fake Eyewitnesses”;
“Barack Obama: Because Trayvon Martin was Black, and Vaguely Resembled Me, ‘All of Us Have to Do Some Soul-Searching’”;
“The Trayvon Martin Hoax: Business Insider Joins Mob Seeking to Lynch George Zimmerman”;
“The Trayvon Martin Hoax: Geraldo Rivera Finally Does the Right Thing!”;
“Black Supremacist Spike Lee (‘Tawana Told the Truth!’) is Trying to Get George Zimmerman Murdered, by Tweeting His Address: The Trayvon Martin Hoax”;
“Hoax Starts to Unravel: Trayvon Martin Started Fight, and was Going to Kill George Zimmerman”;
“George Zimmerman’s Lawyer and Friend Defend Him Against Trayvon Martin Hoax, While ABC News Soldiers on, Repeating Refuted Claims”;
“First Report on Trayvon Martin’s Death One Month Ago Already Included Eyewitness Description of Martin Beating George Zimmerman, and Zimmerman Yelling ‘Help Me!’”;
“George Zimmerman: Trayvon Martin was Trying to Murder Me (Orlando Sentinel)”;
“Jesse Jackson Called for Riots on Behalf of Trayvon Martin, and North Miami Beach Senior HS Students Came Through, Ransacking a Walgreen’s”; and
“Another ‘Honor Student’: Trayvon Martin was a Thug, Vandal, Burglar, Pothead and/or Drug Dealer, and Had been Suspended from School at Least 3 Times.”]
I read a while back that Trayvon's father never called the cops or went out looking for him when he didnt return after leaving for snacks at 7 PM.
ReplyDeleteI thought that strange until I found out about the burglary tools and the dozen pieces of woman's jewelry found in his backpack at school.
I guess hid dad was used to him putting in "all nighters" from when they lived in Miami.