Update to this story.
Via Washington Examiner:
The head of the country’s largest civil rights group said Sunday that the organization has had ongoing discussions with staff of Attorney General Eric Holder on whether the justice department should go after George Zimmerman in a federal civil rights case.
In a statement, NAACP president Ben Jealous said the group was “outraged and heartbroken” after a jury of six women found Zimmerman not-guilty of second degree murder Saturday night in the fatal shooting of unarmed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin. Jealous told CNN’s Candy Crowley on State of the Union that the organization is calling for further investigation into the case.
The FBI interviewed dozens of Zimmerman’s acquaintances last year and found no evidence of racial motives.
“We’ve talked to senior people on [Holder’s] team and we’re glad that what they began months back continues, which is a serious reviewing of everything that came out in this case,” Jealous said.