Obama Destroyed His Post-Racial Theme
Update 4: From ABC:
"Crowley's neighbors had a different story that tends to support the sergeant's actions. One man who says he saw the incdient (sic) said the police report that said Gates was belligerent was not completely off the mark.
Today Ogletree (Gates' Haavard academic lawyer) told "GMA" that Gates "made that clear that he'd be happy to talk" with Crowley to discuss the incident".
So, the liberal lawyer goes on TV and basically lies while another eyewitness supports the on scene report. Special, real special. Meanwhile, Gates is pleased at Obama's remarks. Gee, ya think?
Last night in his news conference, in one huge executive-level gaffe in terms of judgment, Barack Obama destroyed any notion of a post-racial era presidency by stating that the Cambridge police acted "stupidly," (Politico link) despite admitting to not knowing the facts and not being there. Anyone who has read the police report (<– link to source) would know the facts are very much in dispute, dropped charges, or not. Click on image above to enlarge pertinent section of report.
"I don’t know – not having been there and not seeing all the facts – what role race played in that, but I think it’s fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two that he Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home," Obama said in response to a question from the Chicago Sun-Times's Lynn Sweet. Gates, Obama allowed, "is a friend, so I may be a little biased here. I don't know all the facts." However Gates, he continued, "jimmied his way to get into [his own] house."
Updated link: The officer is refusing to apologize, standing by his report.
NATICK, Mass. — A white police sergeant accused of racism after he arrested renowned black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home insisted Wednesday he won't apologize for his treatment of the Harvard professor, but President Barack Obama said police had acted "stupidly."
Unfortunately, this comes as questions are still being raised over a potentially troubling decision by Obama's Justice Department to not pursue voter intimidation charges against the New Black Panther Party in Philadelphia, PA. See Michelle Malkin's post from yesterday for the latest, including documents, on that issue.
As the occupant of the WH, Obama has a responsibility to speak for all Americans. He appears to be showing a pattern of not doing that, but seeing everything through a lens of racial politics, first. It is as unfortunate as it is dumb.
Not having all the facts, he should have withheld judgment, perhaps pronouncing the incident as unfortunate. He didn't term Professor Gates' alleged reaction to questioning, after apparently breaking into his own home, as ill-considered, let alone stupid, or otherwise dumb. And the Cambridge police are not the neighbor who summoned them to the scene. We have no way of knowing if they acted "stupidly," or not. However, that was a conclusion Barack Obama was prepared to jump to based solely upon Race, while admitting not knowing the facts.
He also displayed a willingness to abandon American police officers in the line of duty without a full hearing of the facts. It's impossible to recall any former president doing such a thing, at least before some objective fact finding was done. This may not be a wound he recovers from, and certainly not easily, in terms of his political career.
Meanwhile, any notion of a post-racial era in America due to Obama is likely doomed. That, perhaps, is the biggest shame of all.
Update 2: Apparently the officer was accused of racism 16 years ago for not doing enough to save an NBA players life. He denied it at the time. (Link to Jules)
It’s a date Crowley still can recite by rote – and he still recalls the pain he suffered when people back then questioned whether he had done enough to save the black athlete.
“Some people were saying ‘There’s the guy who killed Reggie Lewis’ afterward. I was broken-hearted. I cried for many nights,” he said.
Crowley, 42, said he’s not a racist, despite how some have cast his actions in the Gates case. “Those who know me know I’m not,” he said.
Now we know what Obama learned at the Trinity Church.
I knew you couldn’t sit there for 20 years and not absorb some of that bile.
I’m stunned to learn Obama’s a racist.
Good grief! I hope IWF is being sarcastic. Obama attended and supported a virulently anti-white racist and anti-semitic mosque/church for over 20 years listening to the most obscene hate speech since Hitler/Himmler. His behavior since the election merely confirms his own hatred for whites and Jews.
Your assuming he ever went to curch, or took it seriously, Bob. I’m not saying he doesn’t see things racially, obviously he does. But I’m unconvinced any of his so-called chruch going is legit. He joined what helped his political career the most in his black voters eyes. That alone is enough to suggest what a loser he is.
I agree that he attended that “church” for political ambitions, but amongst the dregs of society, those who race bait and hate. It’s why the media should be ashamed of itself for deliberately misleading the public. Chicago with it strong black power center has a high crime rate so obviously those black power brokers are not all that interested in the black community. This renowned black scholar Gates is renowned in his own mind and in those liberals who love to pat themselves on the back. He could have simply shown his ID and explained the situation instead of causing chaos and name calling. The mask once again has fallen off another liberal who claims to want peace and harmony but really is a bully. He screams about a black man in America? If it is so bad here for a black man, then please leave and give your spot to someone who actually acknowledges reality and wants to be here.
“He also displayed a willingness to abandon American police officers in the line of duty without a full hearing of the facts. It’s impossible to recall any former president doing such a thing, at least before some objective fact finding was done.”
Bill Ayers must be proud.
So, you’re saying that all black people are dumb.
If Obama was white, you wouldn’t be saying that.
You try to gloss over it, Dan, but the question remains. If Gates was guilty of anything, why did they drop the charges?
Obama was absolutely right. This was stupid on the part of the Cambridge police. The smart thing to do would have been to apologize, leave discreetly, and hope that was the end of it. Instead, they let the situation get out of control and now have a firestorm on their hands because of it.
By even conservative standards, that has to be considered the wrong move.
I can’t believe an alleged potus said what obama said. 2012 can’t come fast enough folks!
Let’ssee, Mary – friend of Obama, black friend of Obama, or not – prominent liberal academic making noise, rallying the race troops, as it were, – gee, I wonder why?
Mary Contrary is right.
The cops have walked right into the “racist trap” that Obama helps set up by his premature bullying of a white cop (a black cop would never have come under such criticisms).
No matter what the cops did, they’re racist.
If they don’t show up quickly – and the house was actually being robbed – then of course they’re racists for not responding quickly only because the homeowner was black. If they show up and the house isn’t being robbed and ask for ID – of course they’re racists for assuming every black man bashing in the front door of a house is a burglar.
This cop’s career is done with because he’s not paying attention to how to be white in the Brave New World.
This story is such a nothing. Gates was rude to the cop who was just doing his job trying to ascertain why this guy was bashing in the front door of a house in Cambridge. Gates became abusive, so they arrested him.
That happens to punk kids of every color every day in this country and it’s why you call a cop “sir” whether you’re black or white or purple.
Gates has a narrative that all cops questioning any black person are automatically racists until proven otherwise. It’s what the teach at Harvard, so is it really any surprise when you witness what passes for a decent education in Massachusetts?
Obama is a freaking racist IDIOT. Impeach this sack of crap.
The DAs drop charges all the time. It’s not worth the hassle to go to court on a ‘disturbing the peace’ type of arrest.
Mary:
Charges are “dropped” all the time – doesn’t mean that there wasn’t a violation of the law by the defendant. Ever heard of someone getting out of a speeding ticket because they “knew” the judge or PO? Doesn’t that mean that they’re not guilty? Nope – just means that the authorities choose not to pursue it. Also, look at the vast majority of criminal cases that are pled out – doesn’t mean that the perps were innocent? Nope, just that the DA used their discretion to allow the perp to cop to a lesser charge. The charge for Gates was disorderly conduct, something akin to yelling in public – so the DA chose to kill the charges in an attempt to keep Sharpton and Co. from coming to town and causing a riot. Just b/c they dropped the charges is not enough evidence to conclude that the officers were out of bounds in arresting Gates. Obama should have kept his mouth shut or after “I wasn’t there” stated that he couldn’t offer an opinion as such. A big mistake on his part for not doing that.
More on the story
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20090722cop_who_arrested_henry_gates_im_not_apologizing/srvc=home&position=0
Shocked! Shocked, I am, to learn that Obambi would see ANYTHING through thr lens of racialism. Next people will be saying he’d nominate a racialist affirmative-action grievance-monger to the Supreme Court.
The fact that the officer, in this day and age, considering who he arrested, still refuses to apologize, to me is proof that the good professor was acting like a spoiled child. The fact that the charges were dropped is obviously because the police want this to go away asap so they can get back to work, responding to potential break ins and what not.
I blame George W. Bush.
Gates is a race hustler like Sharpton, Jackson and their numberless ilk. I am as familiar with the facts as President Obama so I can confidently state that Skip acted stupidly. Above it is declared that once Gates identified himself the cop should have apologized and head on. Of course that is exactly what he claims he did it is only the word of Gates, a man who profits mightily from inflating every parking ticket into a race riot, that is contrary. It was the promise of post-raciality that wooed many a youngster into the voting booth when they would otherwise be on the Xbox and Obama dissappoints most profoundly on that score. Check up with the default-left twenty-somethings and see how THAT change is working out…
The good professor was acting like Marie Antoinette in her shepherdess gown frolicking with her bathed and scented lambs. Marie and her friends played shepherdess and shpherd did this to relate to the common folk. But anyone who has spent time on the hallowed grounds of Harvard, being the leading black scholar there is something far different (dare I say elitist?) than being a young black man born a to an unwed crack-addicted teenage mother in Detroit. For a starter, the Detroit public school sysyem won’t teach the young man to read.
Henry Louis Gates, like President and First Lady Obama or Kofi Annan, have had nothing but all the elite doors thrown wide open to them in this country. Sure Obama’s mother was on food stamps but not because she couldn’t work but because she was in school getting her doctorate. That is completely different and I’m shocked all the nuanced minds on the Left cannot grasp this.
Obama stepped in it big time with this as many people voted for him hoping a black man in the White House would finally put to bed our racial problems.
Obama was absolutely right. This was stupid on the part of the Cambridge police
What, exactly was “stupid”? Responding to a 9-11 call?
Given you, just like this embarrassment we have in the Oval Office, were not there, how could you possibly know this?
Cambridge police Sgt. James Crowley…
Joe the Plumber
Jim the Cop
Enemies of Obama..
You try to gloss over it, Mary, but the question remains. If Gates was the point of the blogpost, why did Dan make it about Obama?
Because the blogpost isn’t about Gates, it’s about… (wait for it) … OBAMA! Ta Dah.
As TH said… “Bloody public schools.”
In defense of the prez, it seems obvious to me that the arrest was unjustified. No matter how rudely Gates behaved, he was on his own property and should have been left to stew on his front step.
That said, I am skeptical that the cop was acting out of racial animus. FWIW, I’m a black guy who used to get hassled by cops quite a bit as a young man. Even then, I don’t think they were racially motivated. It was just a rough neighborhood and I looked sorta like a suspect. In the same way, this cop was told somebody was breaking into a house and showed up ready for trouble. He can hardly be blamed for that, or even for behaving brusquely. In my view, though, he clearly crossed the line when he snapped on the cuffs. But does that make him a racist? So far, I’ve seen no proof of it–just the words of an aggrieved professor.
Obama solidifies his position as non-post racial President
I cant really add much more to what Dan Riehl wrote last night in response to the Presidents assertion in his press conference that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in the arrest of black Harvard scholar and…
“That said, I am skeptical that the cop was acting out of racial animus.”
He wasn’t. The cop was acting out of “asshole animus.” Happens with punks all the time.
Gates is Harvard asshole (they’re a dime a dozen in Cambridge).
Harvard assholes get themselves booked every day for disrespecting the police.
You can’t be a race “victim” if you don’t every now and then have a confrontation with “the man.”
Mouth off to cops, expect to get arrested. I wouldn’t be happy about being arrested for yelling at cops in my own front yard either, but that’s the way of the world. If cops let themselves be verbally abused every time they responded to a 911 call, things would get out of hand. The cops did the right thing by arresting him and the right thing by dropping the charges afterward.
It’s ASTONISHING that Barack would say what he did last night. Not that he thinks it, but that he would be stupid enough to say it in a prime-time press conference. Of course he’s a racist, but thus far he’s been a fairly clever racist. That was just pure stupidity.
Who knew we elected Quincy!
“If there’s a blue pill and a red pill, and the blue pill is half the price of the red pill and works just as well, why not pay half-price for the thing that’s going to make you well?”
—President Obama to Jake Tapper of ABC News
But remember, Bush is the dumb one!
I weep for America.
If charges are “dropped all the time,” if it’s not “worth the hassle,” then why make the arrest in the first place? Why even have the law?
Still a stupid move on the part of the police. Proven by the fact that they have a gigantic deal going over what could have gone away with a simple apology at the point of the incident.
Why all the froth re BO and his rascist background.Did you need any more than his membership in the black caucus?
Gate was repremanded by Harvard for spending most of his time keepimg the rascist pot boiling and not teaching his subject.His answer was to take his entourage to prinston where the climate was more conducive to his “hate the white man”.BIg question,How in the hell did the brain dead idiots at Harvard take him back”
Gates has an overinflated sense of his own importance. Like Obama, a legend in his own mind. Jesme, I’m like you, but I don’t expect the president to take sides, not even for friendship sake. I expect that he will wait to have legal events run their course, get both sides of the story, before he comes down against the cops. Gates has set himself up to be burglarized now. He’s pretty much told the cops that if something bad is going on at his house, don’t bother cuz they’ll be abused as racists. So when a brotha breaks into his house—and you just know it will be a brotha—Gates will have got what he deserved. He ought to have thanked the police officers for responding, explained the situation politely, presented ID, and smiled. Police are people too. Politeness doesn’t cost a dime and it comes with no pain.
“a simple apology”
Oh, I didn’t realize Gates wanted to apologize, as he should for what was likely his pathetic behavior. What is that, liberal thinking? APologize even if not wrong to make it go away because you’re white, and a cop?
Yeah, that’ll work. Geesh, what a dumb suggestion, Mary – sorry but it is.
If charges are “dropped all the time,” if it’s not “worth the hassle,” then why make the arrest in the first place? Why even have the law?
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Um, you do understand police don’t prosecute crimes, right?
Get over it Obama….I’m so sick of your stupid race card. Check the stats on those in jails and see why people automatically think the way they do! This guy probably copped an attitude, which it sounds like he did. You may be equal but you’re NOT superior and that’s how you all act now! They had just cause to stop him and ask for ID. If it had been a real burgler, and they didn’t do their job, than you’d have something to say about that too. Make up your minds. You can’t have it both ways.
Amazing the amount of vitriol sloshing around here, from people who don’t know the facts any more than Mr. Obama did, but who all know that race played no part in some guy getting arrested on his front porch. After all, this happens regularly to white guys where they live. But everybody just laughs it off: no harm, no foul.
Last time I looked, it wasn’t against the law to be impolite to the police. Regardless of what you may think, this is still America.
And you do understand police have this thing they call “discretion,” right? It’s what keeps them from arresting jaywalkers all day long.
Obama Says Police Acted Stupidly, Despite Admitting He Doesnt Know all the Facts
Obama: Despite not knowing the facts, despite not being there, I condemn the stupid (and obviously racist) police of Cambridge for arresting my friend, who happens to be a black man.
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“This guy probably copped an attitude, which it sounds like he did. You may be equal but you’re NOT superior and that’s how you all act now!”
NOW, I think we’re getting to the nub of the problem…
The Boston Herald has scrubbed the police report from their website, but Jules Crittenden reprints it here:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2009/07/23/boston-globe-scrubs-henry-louis-gates-arrest-report-website
Reading the report, it sounds like Gates is a race-mongering, self-important assh*le who was extremely abusive to the police officer investigating the break in report and DESERVED to be arrested and hauled off.
Sorry Mary, there’s a difference between being “impolite” to a cop and being verbally abusive. I give Sgt Crowley huge props for maintaining his cool in the face of such awful treatment.
Hello Rev Wright is that you? What do you think was being learned in the 20 years sitting there listening to Rev Wright’s sermons?
Gee, a guy who teaches race hate for a living turned a minor misunderstanding into a racial incident, and a politician who built his career by playing off of race hate and race guilt is going along with it.
“After all, this happens regularly to white guys where they live. But everybody just laughs it off: no harm, no foul.”
If I were breaking into my own home, I’d be relieved if the police showed up to check things out. I wouldn’t scream at them, I wouldn’t refuse to talk to them. I’d explain what happened, laugh at my own stupidity at getting myself locked out, and get on with my life.
Oh, and I’d thank the neighbors who called 911 for keeping their eyes open and being willing to call for help. That doesn’t happen everywhere, ya know.
Go to hell, Obama. Your attacks on private citizens disgraces the office you hold. You are miserable failure.
Gates was asked for ID. He refused to show it. How was the police officer supposed to know that he was not a burglar?
Liberals are so ignorant.
Man, you guys are coming off like a pack of hyenas racing to fresh road kill.
Some cops are arrogant power tripping mf’ers, and some cops are incredibly skilled at using courtesy and respect as tools to diffuse situations. It seems the police officer in question here is neither of these. I think race played a role here, but it’s more about 2 guys swinging their dicks around.
But how convenient and predictable that DR believes the cop’s version over Gates’.
Obama should have stayed out of it.
But at the end of the day, even if this had never happened, y’all seriously wanna make a case that black men aren’t treated differently by law enforcement? If you wanna make some racist case that they deserve to be, then at least you’re being being honest. But to ignore the reality of this issue is just beyond stupid. I won’t bother giving examples, there’s too many.
I lived in Boston for years, and race is a much more complicated issue there than it is south of the mason dixon line.
“Oh, I didn’t realize Gates wanted to apologize, as he should for what was likely his pathetic behavior. What is that, liberal thinking? Apologize even if not wrong to make it go away because you’re white, and a cop?”
Dan, do you even have any idea you’re talking about? I understand you’re excited, but this is incoherent blather. Ease up a little, and at least accept the possibility that the cop was out of line….do you just know he wasn’t?
Obama torpedoed his own press conference with his remarks about the Gates incident. After all, what are we talking about today? Didn’t he also say something about his healthcare plan? What an idiot.
The cop should not have arrested Gates even though he was within his ‘discretion’ to do so since there are now at least 3 independent witnesses that have admitted Gates was yelling and causing a scene. That makes the great Professor not only an asshole, but a liar who is now bent on destroying the life and career of a police officer who came to his house becuase of a 911 call of a break in in progress. Nice guy.
The President should NEVER have called the Cambridge Police stupid, even if they were, becuase it is unseemly to have the president calling the police stupid when he admits he’s biased and doesn’t have the facts, it makes him look like a cop hating racist. Of course, he is a cop hating racist, but its not good to let this slip and let ALL law enforcement know that you don’t have any faith in them or their judgement.
But, since DOJ is now investigating the PA country club for cancelling the membership to the black school group…this is what we should expect from now on in ‘post racial’ America, or to put it antoher way ‘whites are always wrong America’
The cop may have been – all I said in the post was wait for some fact finding. My comment was responding to Mary who wanted an apology. From who? WHy not ask her, instead of me?
And Mike G is 100% correct. The really really dumb move by Obama was giving people something to talk about today – and it ain’t health care, or his weak sales pitch. He screwed himself coming and going. The guy is pathetic on his feet. In the big picture, he makes Bush look great. Obama can’t keep from shooting himself in the foot the minute he goes off the teleprompter. Where is this genius of a communicator we’ve heard so much about? He isn’t in the WH, that’s for sure.
“But at the end of the day, even if this had never happened, y’all seriously wanna make a case that black men aren’t treated differently by law enforcement?”
Gates was treated no differently than other racists who scream at police officers during investigations.
Mike2Cents,
I’d say the black guy that was running away from cops at 2am outside my window the other morning was treated differently by cops than I (white) am treated. Then again, I’m not a criminal and he was. I wouldn’t have gotten arrested for breaking into my own house either, but then again, I wouldn’t have flown off the handle being a huge asshole and yelling at the cops for doing their job. Here you have a black man who makes gobs of money for telling young white kids how racist they are, publicly belittling and berating a public servant (who’s salary surely barely pays the bills) for simply doing his job.
Should cops always simply take people at their word when responding to break-in calls? How long would it take burglars to simply throw on some PJs, break into an unoccupied home, and then act like the cops are crazy, stupid, and racist for asking for their ID?
By the way, you’re right, race isn’t very complicated south of the mason dixon line. I have never done anything to any black person, yet the vast majority of them here hate me on sight. Forgive me for not caring when cops arrest them (or anyone else) for acting like enraged idiots over misunderstandings.
Its the same pattern as when an affirmative action admit can’t handle the course load of a tier one college. He blames the system, he blames whitey. Wait for it, Obama will continue down that path.
“The guy is pathetic on his feet. In the big picture, he makes Bush look great. Obama can’t keep from shooting himself in the foot the minute he goes off the teleprompter. Where is this genius of a communicator we’ve heard so much about? He isn’t in the WH, that’s for sure.”
Could it be that because at the heart of it, he really is weak and kind of pathetic on health care, that he decided to have us all bla bla bla about this, just for the sake of changing the subject?
Obama on health care makes Bush look like a genius by comparison. He doesn’t know what’s in his own bill, he has not a clue on how to pay for it, he’s for a number of things that he said he was against, and he wants it done by August 1st for some reason. The reason to be sure isn’t principal, he just wants it done because he wants to WIN. If he truly cared he’d be able to articulate his position to his OWN PARTY, and he hasn’t!!!
So, call the po po stupid, and at least it changes the subject for a little while.
why don’t you just go back to kenya, you’re not my president, you might be kenya’s leader, not mine!!!!!!!
I suggest everyone read Officer Crowley’s report. In it he names several other officers who were witnesses to the incident, as well as the woman who called in the B&E. All of them will have had to fill out written reports that the DA would have seen. If Crowley’s report varied in any notable way from those others the DA of the People’s Republic of Cambridge would have publicly apologized to Gates and to Harvard and made Crowley fall on his sword. If Gates pursues this “legally” those reports will be part of the public court record.
As to why Gates is back at Harvard–Larry Summers, who had asked Gates to do some real academic work in exchange for the prestige of a Harvard University office and is lucre, was forced out.
As to Barak Obama, I held my nose and voted for the mean old guy.
I have to think since the Gates quetion was asked by a reporter from Chicago that he knows well, that he wanted to asnwer it.
So, from there I can either assume that he purposefully chose to call police stupid, or that when he is not scripted in advance he makes these kinds of gaffs.
All he would have to have done is say he thought ‘better judgement’ could have been used, almost any word other than STUPID to use about a police officer who arrived at the call of a crime in progress would have been better.
Either answer isn’t very comforting.
JD:
Here’s a tip: If you’re called to a home responding to a report of a break-in, and the guy who answers the door is, like 60 years old, he’s probably not the guy you’re looking for. That’s probably in the Detective Handbook. On the first page.
Of course, the Racist Handbook says that all blacks are criminals, no matter the age, gender or circumstance. So in that case, arrest away.
Speaking as a lawyer, here’s a helpful tip:
If you scream and cuss at a cop, and keep it up, you’ll be wearing bracelets. Black, white, brown or green: same result.
There is not one of Gates’ defenders who can come up with a plausible argument, merely the naked *assumption*- with no facts to go on- that the officer was a ‘racist.’
Datum: that this happens to be the same cop who administered mouth-to-mouth to (black) Celtics star Reggie Lewis in an effort to save his life.
Datum: that Gates, on the other hand, is a professional race-baiter.
jesme – you don’t know wtf you’re talking about. The police responded to a break in call, Gates is not the owner of the home, according to the police report and eyewitness accounts Gates was antagonistic the whole time. Simple non-racebaiting headline is ‘Local police arrest Harvard asshole’.
If Obama was white and would have made that comment about the police, white America would have applauded him. Unfortuntelay for him he is black in the eyes of America and therefore rascist when he says something that involves a white man. How convenient for white America to forget that Obama was raised by his white mother and had a strong connection to his white grandmother. America wake up, Obama just opened your eyes you ignorant folk. You want Gates not to see the incident as rascist and then you turn around and call Obama rascist?? I spit on you.
JD -
I think you should fill out a witness statement for the Cambridge police – as there’s obviously much you know about the incident in question.
Maybe someday you can share with students the horrible experience of being a white man in America…just knowing that people hate you on site.
Know that this struggle will make you a better man. (Or is that a bitter man?)
A copy of the police report can be seen at this link
http://theerant.yuku.com/topic/22384/t/Harvard-Professor-Arrested.html?page=3
I don’t see how a reasonable person can see the incident as racist.
A 911 call about a b&e IN PROGRESS was reported to police that included descriptions of two black males attempting to break open the front door.
When the officer arrived, there was one black male inside the house.
He asked the black male inside the house to step outside, which is standard procedure.
Gates refused, he not only refused to come outside but launched into a racial tirade.
Gates also refused to show his ID initially.
The cop was on his way, already leaving the house after confirming that Gates was not a burglar, when Gates followed him outside and continued his racist harangue.
At that point, it is within the officer’s discretion to arrest him for disorderly conduct since he refused to shut up or calm down.
I believe the officer’s report more than Gates becuase it is backed up by a second officer’s report as well as two witnesses who have spoken to Boston media and they confirm that Gates was aggitated and yelling.
The racist in this exchange is Henry Louis Gates, no surprise there.
But at the end of the day, even if this had never happened, y’all seriously wanna make a case that black men aren’t treated differently by law enforcement? If you wanna make some racist case that they deserve to be, then at least you’re being being honest. But to ignore the reality of this issue is just beyond stupid. I won’t bother giving examples, there’s too many.
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Of course nobody said this, and this isn’t the topic. What to take a guess as to why you, as an Obama voter, want to change the subject?
Here’s a tip: If you’re called to a home responding to a report of a break-in, and the guy who answers the door is, like 60 years old, he’s probably not the guy you’re looking for. That’s probably in the Detective Handbook. On the first page.
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Thank you for proving your ignorance and the the modern left can no longer be parodied.
Crime statistics are not racist, no matter how much liberals want them to be.
According to teammates and the coach himself, Barack Obama falsely accuses his high school basketball of racism and bigotry in his memoir and in interviews.
Obama’s memoir has more than one obviously made up “racial incidence” stories. Some others may be true, who knows when you are dealing with a man like Obama, well known on a daily basis to make up “facts” and otherwise generate untrue BS to serve his interests.
If you’ve read about Obama’s high school period, Obama has a huge chip on his shoulder because of his failed ambition to become an professional basketball player — Obama spent every day all day working to “make the NBA”, but he just wasn’t that good. Instead of blaming himself, Obama blamed racism. Obama seems to have interpreted the world on a deeply racial basis ever since.
The truth is out there.
Here’s an interesting website – a very high percentage of the murders in New York City are committed by minorities against their own. He also has the New York Times murder map up and if you know the neighborhoods you will see that the murders are mostly committed in minority areas. Good to know if you are a stranger to New York.
http://tacomaconfidential.typepad.com/the_murder_book_2008/
You guyS can try to put obama as a racist. But the truth of the matter is. This has been going on for Hundreds of years. And it never stopped. You CAN POINT THE finger all you want. At whose to blame. All you making the stupid remarks about go back here. You make yourself look like a jackazz. Bush messed this country up. Not a dam one of you said a bad thing about that. IF you sit here and talk about obama and what he say. Bush said a whole lot of things that werent right. And has a lot of blood on his hands.
You can talk chat. Until your teeth fall out. He’s putting back this peice of so call america that Bush. Messed up.
Politic and Racist people go hand to hand. Gossips makes news for people like you guys. Who are writing stupid comments. Yes. He may have comment wrong in the white america eyes. He didnt whole back about what felt in that situation. Now must of the white folks are upset. Poor people. They hate the fact that there is a black president in the white. House. You really want to talk about something. How about obama changing and making the white house totally black that would drive all the white people mad. But we know that that’s not going to happen. I’m sick of writing to you idiots. Get a LIFE
Everyone in New York already knows this, it is the unspoken truth that lives in all the big blue cities of the Northeast and elsewhere.
“Obama was absolutely right. This was stupid on the part of the Cambridge police. The smart thing to do would have been to apologize, leave discreetly, and hope that was the end of it. Instead, they let the situation get out of control and now have a firestorm on their hands because of it.”
If you believe the report, Gates refused to provide identification to prove he lived in the house and started shouting about racism, which apparently spilled out of the house and drew a crowd.
So is the new standard of policing that if a possible intruder refuses to provide an ID he should be apologized to? Its pretty clear that Gates INSTANTLY assumed and started yelling about racism, refusing to even hear the explanation from the police as to why they were there. This is exactly the kind of race baiting we are supposed to be over.
I know one thing… there’s a swanky, upscale house in Cambridge, MA, that can be easily broken into and now it is unlikely the local cops will respond in a timely fashion, if at all.
I don’t get what the cop was supposed to apologize for? Someone called 911 and reported a break-in? What is he supposed to do when he gets there and finds someone who fits the description inside the house?
That is what makes all this “he came into the house w/out permission” so ridiculous. He was investigating a break-in, the door was broken, WTF?
Who knows what happened. This is Gate’s statement via his attorney:
Professor Gates immediately called the Harvard Real Estate office to report the damage to his door and requested that it be repaired immediately. As he was talking to the Harvard Real Estate office on his portable phone in his house, he observed a uniformed officer on his front porch. When Professor Gates opened the door, the officer immediately asked him to step outside. Professor Gates remained inside his home and asked the officer why he was there. The officer indicated that he was responding to a 911 call about a breaking and entering in progress at this address. Professor Gates informed the officer that he lived there and was a faculty member at Harvard University. The officer then asked Professor Gates whether he could prove that he lived there and taught at Harvard. Professor Gates said that he could, and turned to walk into his kitchen, where he had left his wallet. The officer followed him. Professor Gates handed both his Harvard University identification and his valid Massachusetts driver’s license to the officer. Both include Professor Gates’ photograph, and the license includes his address.
Professor Gates then asked the police officer if he would give him his name and his badge number. He made this request several times. The officer did not produce any identification nor did he respond to Professor Gates’ request for this information. After an additional request by Professor Gates for the officer’s name and badge number, the officer then turned and left the kitchen of Professor Gates’ home without ever acknowledging who he was or if there were charges against Professor Gates. As Professor Gates followed the officer to his own front door, he was astonished to see several police officers gathered on his front porch. Professor Gates asked the officer’s colleagues for his name and badge number. As Professor Gates stepped onto his front porch, the officer who had been inside and who had examined his identification, said to him, “Thank you for accommodating my earlier request,” and then placed Professor Gates under arrest. He was handcuffed on his own front porch.
Ace:
You got me… I’m completely ignorant.
BTW, so is the FBI.
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/addpubs.htm
http://www.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=/ucr/adducr/age_race_specific.pdf
But don’t let facts get in the way of… whatever it is you do here.
The Ace -
Um…yes, it is the topic…unless you think folks here are just speaking about this incident in a bubble. Have a read through the comments.
But maybe on another level you’re right – and what it’s really about (again and perhaps forver) is ‘who hates Obama the most’…it seems the ‘birthers’ are starting to weigh in.
I wonder why Gates wanted the policeman’s ID.
One of Gate’s neighbors is on record having heard Gates say “You believe the white woman and not the black man”
Come on, that statement is not credible. Gates is a racist and a liar.
Really? You weren’t there, don’t personally know the people, so you have no way to know who’s telling the truth.
I want to thank obama for ensuring that no minority will ever be elected to the presidency again … or should I say the hizzy … I predicted this but he did do it sooner than I thought
Oh my can we get over this “RACIST THING”. if it had not been the owner breaking in then the police would have been accused of not helping because it was a black man house
OR
is this someway to take the heat off him for this stupid costly so called “Health Care Reform” . I have heard nothing (I am a Democrat for over 60 years) that says we the working tax payer will not pay for the health care of lazy wefare recipients and ILLEGAL’ and those who will not buy insurance even if they have the money
I call the medicine hot line and was told that even tho I have to work at age 82 to pay for health and prescription insurance ,they will not help me unless I am homeless, unemployed or in this country ILLEGALLY
I know that there is the cop’s report, which he, not his lawyer wrote, and which was put together shortly after the scene.
I know there is a second police report, written by a hispanic officer, which corroborates the first report.
I know that two of Gates’ neighbors who witnessed the altercation support the fact that Gates was yelling and yelling about the cop being racist.
I know that there was at least one black officer on the scene and several other police officers who can either support or not that Gates was yelling and making a scene.
I believe that Gates version where out of nowhere the officer thanks him and then cuffs him is patently ridiculous and never happened.
So, as far as I can tell, there is already substantial evidence that supports the police officer’s version of the story and only Gates word that supports his version.
I also believe that if he could supply any witnesses that supported his version, he would have done so in one of his numerous media interviews over the last few days.
Obama went to Wright’s place for the politics and the race baiting, not to find his version of god.
Black Liberation Theology is Marxism using Race as Identity politics, with God added to it to make it palatable to the target group.
Obama’s stances on Health cre were summed up by Bobby Jindal. He say’s he like a lot of what he hears Obama say on healthcare and medicine. . . but nothing Obama says he is for seems to be in the bill he is pushing
Good to see a president that is not afraid to speak his mind, we need more of it and less of the hairy chested law enforcement stupidity that is starting to become rampant throughout all the states. The guy was breaking in to his own house, he was not doing anything wrong, that police officer needs a good kick in the nuts for acting the way he did, he should be removed from his position as an example of what will happen if this type of brutality continues.
A white guy…
I have had enough with black folks crying racist every change they get. Obama is President. If racism existed, how the hell did he get elected? And how the hell did Gates get to become a prominent professor at Harvard? Yep, racism was there alright. But it was the kind of racism that benefited them (affirmative action et al) so they did not make a peep. Obama was doing not too well in school yet he got into Harvard. He had no experience, either in law–his studied field–or in politic or business yet he got elected. He ought to curl his tongue seven times before uttering the word racist. And although the media has pumped him and his wife up with praise of “smartest, most intellectual, brilliant”, he has shown that he isn’t too bright without a speech writer and a pair of telepromters so he ought to quit the word “stupid” as well.
As for Gates, he broke into a home, albeit his own. Where was his intellectual, bright, Harvard trained mind? Did it not occur to him that if the door of his own home was bolted, which wasn’t the way he left it when leaving for his trip, there might be problem–landlord locking it for unpaid rent perhaps or there’s an intruder in the house, etc? No, nothing occurred to him. He simply broke in. Well, I am certain the concerned citizen would call the police if he were white, and the police would still treat the white him similarly. Yes, there’s always a prejudice, stereo-typing, profiling. It happens in countries where there is only one race. If one looks or acts like a thug, one is perceived as such. Look, it even happens in his ancestor’s home land Africa. So Gates ought to shut the hell up.
Gates wasn’t arrested for breaking into his own house. He was arrested for disorderly conduct for following the officer outside the house and continuing to scream at him after having been warned to calm down.
That kind of arrest is always within the officer’s discretion. We can debate whether he should or should not have arrested Gates, but he was pretty clearly within his right to do so.
Common sense should dictate that when a police officer arrives on the scene where a crime has been reported in progress, you are polite and helpful, no matter what your age, sex or race.
About time we got a prez that gives out his own opinion, all the rest have been stooges. Need a bloody lot more of it.
“Really? You weren’t there, don’t personally know the people, so you have no way to know who’s telling the truth.”
That’s odd. Obama wasn’t there and doesn’t know the facts, as even he admitted, but he stated directly that the police were wrong and that Gates was right.
Planning to blast him as well, Nishner?
Presidents do not usually get involved in any way with local misdemeanor arrests or any other local non issue. What’s next, is he going to give us his opinion on the spring collections? Harry Potter?
The president isn’t supposed to blather on about his own opinion, he’s supposed to be diplomatic and lead the country and focus on national and international issues.
Um…yes, it is the topic…unless you think folks here are just speaking about this incident in a bubble. Have a read through the comments.
Um, no, it is not the topic of the post.
Don’t worry, I understand you didn’t learn reading comprehension in your African studies courses.
Yeah, assuming Obama knows no more than what people on this board know, he probably shouldn’t have said anything either. Cause, unless some people on this board have psychic abilities, the only people that actually know what happened are Gates and the officer that were in the house together.
He was asked a question – it’s a national story.
But don’t let facts get in the way of… whatever it is you do here.
Huh?
Um, so which “fact” did you post indicating that anyone of a this clown Gates’ age doesn’t commit crimes?
Oh, none.
Nevermind.
Police are generally not very bright. Once Mr. Gates produced ID, they should have left quietly and ignored whatever venom was being directed at them by a man who obviously posed no physical threat to them. Instead, they arrested him. The arrest had nothing to do with the law, the charges have already been dropped. The cop decided to arrest him because he thought it would teach him a lesson. He should respect the police. The problem is, black men in this country have a history of being targeted, harrassed and otherwise treated like criminals when they come in contact with law enforcement. Ask any middle aged black man you know if either they or someone close to them has had a similar experience to that of Mr. Gates. The answer will surprise you. The cop is a public employee who’s job is not to “teach lessons” but rather to serve and protect the public. Gates’s rant may have offended the cop but offending a cop is not a crime. Being arrested in the middle of the day on your own front porch is a humilating and degrading experience. That was why he was arrested, to humiliate and degrade him. To all of you who think the cop was in the right here, you should be petitioning the DA to reinstate the charges against him and proceed to trial. Let’s see the cop and his union defend the charges they arrested him for. The charges were dropped because they could not be defended. Calling a cop a racist is not a criminal offense. Eventually, the city of Cambridge and the police officer will pay Mr. Gates a considerable sum of money. They cannot defend their actions legally. There was no basis for the arrest. That money will be paid from the tax revenues. This cop just cost the citizens of Cambridge a few million dollars all because he wanted to “teach a lesson”. The lesson he should learn is stupidity is cause for termination. They should fire this terminally thick-headed but thin-skinned moron before he causes more damage.
Haavard’s Tawana Brawley
Not exactly, but close. Mr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., that is. The big shot who decides to argue with a cop and try to pull rank on him. Then, when he’s arrested for disorderly conduct, he cries racism. Figures.What else…
The charges were dropped because they could not be defended.
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Hilarious.
You leftists are an embarrassment to the Republic…
Once Mr. Gates produced ID, they should have left quietly and ignored whatever venom was being directed at them by a man who obviously posed no physical threat to them
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Please, keep going. Seriously, watching you incoherent boobs prattle on is quite illuminating.
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“The cop decided to arrest him because he thought it would teach him a lesson”
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You, just like the clown President you voted for, have no idea whether or not this is true. You’re simply projecting your rage on to the police.
Just like most leftists, the views you assign to those which you disagree with politically are really your own.
John Henry Eden writes:
“Gates was treated no differently than other racists who scream at police officers during investigations. ”
Bull. But cops can’t arrest someone for being a racist or for screaming at them. There is no law that protects a cop from boorish or uncivil behavior on the part of the people they serve. Cops that spend their time arresting people for the offense of pissing them off shouldn’t be cops for very long. It just costs the department money. If you were any dumber, you could be a cop yourself.
The police union is alleging that charges were dropped due to Gates being a personal friend of the mayor and the governor and the presidentm as it is highly unusual to have charges dropped before arraignment. So, I’d say chances of Gates getting any money from the city are slim to none.
The police officer himself will never pay a dime regardless because he has almost unqualified immunity for anything he does while on the job, police cannot even be sued for lying on the witness stand.
It is true that “nobody knows” what really happened but that is the case in almost every arrest and trial there is..that is why the standard is ‘reasonable doubt’ and not ‘I was there and saw it all and know 100% for certain what happened”
Indeed, there were several witnesses to at least what took place on the porch, and at least two of them back up the officer’s report…
anan writes:
“The police union is alleging that charges were dropped due to Gates being a personal friend of the mayor and the governor and the presidentm as it is highly unusual to have charges dropped before arraignment. So, I’d say chances of Gates getting any money from the city are slim to none.”
So the police union and all you morons should fight to have the charges reinstated. I’d love to see this go to trial. Let’s see how they defend arresting a guy who proved he was in his own home and who never threatened or otherwise posed a risk to officers or the public. Come on all you legal geniuses, show me a legal basis for arresting someone when no threats or public safety issue is present.
the ace writes:
“Hilarious.
You leftists are an embarrassment to the Republic…”
And you sir aren’t smart enough to make a coherent argument. If you have something to say, please say it. If you haven’t noticed, we so called “leftists” outnumber you wingnuts nearly everywhere in the country save the south. Maybe you should move back to the south and start a seccession movement. It worked out so well for your kin last time.
You morons want a police state then keep it coming…you WILL regret your dumb ass attitude in the end.
Let’s see how they defend arresting a guy who proved he was in his own home and who never threatened or otherwise posed a risk to officers or the public.
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THEY DIDN’T ARREST HIM FOR BEING IN HIS OWN HOME.
What about that can’t you grasp?
You are arguing against strawmen for a reason.
Here is why he was arrested:
As I descended the stairs to the sidewalk, Gates continued to yell at me, accusing me of racial bias and continued to tell me that I had not heard the last of him. Due to the tumultuous manner Gates had exhibited in his residence as well as his continued tumultuous behavior outside the residence, in view of the public, I warned Gates that he was becoming disorderly. Gates ignored my warning and continued to yell, which drew the attention of both the police officers and citizens, who appeared surprised and alarmed by Gates’s outburst. For a second time I warned Gates to calm down while I withdrew my department issued handcuffs from their carrying case. Gates again ignored my warning and continued to yell at me. It was at this time that I informed Gates that he was under arrest.
Come on all you legal geniuses, show me a legal basis for arresting someone when no threats or public safety issue is present.
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Hysterical.
Please, keep opining. Watching your stupidity in action is fantastic.
If you haven’t noticed, we so called “leftists” outnumber you wingnuts nearly everywhere in the country save the south
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Um, yeah, not so much. Of course conservatives self ID at 2 times the rate as “liberals” but then again, you clowns always feel the need to be reassurred becasue of your intellectual insecurities.
“Let’s see how they defend arresting a guy who proved he was in his own home and who never threatened or otherwise posed a risk to officers or the public.”
Actually, nynick, you show your bigotry and hatred of police officers in that remark, given that you absolutely state that Gates NEVER threatened or otherwise posed a risk.
You weren’t there. You don’t know what went on. You are simply responding in a racist, bigoted, and prejudiced manner.
But this is typical for Gates and the rest of the Obama Party, given their attitudes.
“Kinney, a black woman, testified that the mayor criticized her for working with White, who is white.
“‘You should be ashamed of yourself,’” she quoted Kilpatrick as saying. “‘Why are you a part of this?’”
White testified Kilpatrick said, “‘You shouldn’t even be riding in a car with a guy named White.’”"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25851901/
Remember, that’s Kwame Kilpatrick, endorsed and supported by both Barack Obama and the Congressional Black Caucus, chaired by his mother.
Aren’t you proud of what you support, nynick? Does it give you and your racist friend Gates a sense of power to shame black women for daring to do their jobs and investigate crimes by blacks? Is that racist?
anon writes:
“Indeed, there were several witnesses to at least what took place on the porch, and at least two of them back up the officer’s report…”
Again, the cops cannot arrest someone for calling them racist. They can claim they were threatened or that the there was a public safety issue. I wonder what those eye witnesses might say if they were asked under oath if Mr. Gates threatened the officers or otherwise made them fear for their safety. That’s the law. Please, please, please start a campaign to have these charges reinstated.
That would guarantee Mr. Gates a million dollars + in damages. It would also mean the end of your cop friends career.
By the way, simpletons like Mary contrary and nynick will be the first to whine when police start ignoring crime related calls in black neighborhoods because of incidents like this.
Then again, they’re too dumb to understand…
Officer Crowley should be OK, the Cambridge political establishment hates Harvard (it’s pretty easy…
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Again, the cops cannot arrest someone for calling them racist.
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Nobody is claiming this.
So why do you think it is you’re arguing against strawmen?
Oh, you’re a liar.
Nevermind.
“You weren’t there. You don’t know what went on. You are simply responding in a racist, bigoted, and prejudiced manner.”
Which pretty much describe’s NDT’s excrement of a post.
North dallas thirty:
“Aren’t you proud of what you support, nynick? Does it give you and your racist friend Gates a sense of power to shame black women for daring to do their jobs and investigate crimes by blacks? Is that racist?”
I know this may be hard to grasp but just because I think it was wrong to arrest Mr. Gates does not mean I think it’s wrong to arrest every black person under any circumstances. For instance, you’re a Republican so you must support sexually exploiting male congressional pages right? I mean, Foley was a Republican so too were the leadership in the house that covered up for him?
Gates was arrested for disorderly conduct.
The witness statements support the idea that he was disorderly–screaming at the cop outside of his house in view of the public–which provides evidence for the arrest.
There is a difference between whether the officer was CORRECT in arresting Gates and whether the officer acted within the LAW. I think he was incorrect in arresting Gates, though in all probability Gates would still have gone on GMA and screamed racial profiling even if the cop just walked away. However, I think based on the information that is known that the cop was within his discretion to arrest Gates, especially considering he says he warned him to calm down and he did not.
Ace:
“THEY DIDN’T ARREST HIM FOR BEING IN HIS OWN HOME.
What about that can’t you grasp?
You are arguing against strawmen for a reason.
Here is why he was arrested:”
The officer charged him with disorderly conduct right? Here’s the statute genius. You read it. Now do you understand why the charges were dropped? You can argue the professor was upset but it’s hard to make a case he did anything threatening, violent or created a physically offensive condition or hazard.
A disorderly person is defined as one who:
with purpose to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or
recklessly creates a risk thereof
engages in fighting or threatening, violent or tumultuous behavior, or
creates a hazard or physically offensive condition by any act which serves no legitimate purpose.
http://www.masscriminaldefense.com/disorderly.htm
WOW, riehlworld really is racist central today.
What happened did LGF, Powerline and RedState all have server crashes which drove you all here to spout off your persecuted white man syndrome pablum and bobble your Ditto heads in perfect unison?
It’s frikkin’ 2009 people, the 50′s are over and we whites are now the latest minority in the US.
Deny this fact at your own peril.
Keep up the hatred, keep up all that the birther-teabagging nonsense and especially that priceless, holier than thou, victim mentality that conservatives wear proudly upon their sleeves and use to justify their self serving, myopic racism.
Join the new multiracial America you terribly frightened white people, you will sleep better at night.
What happened to all the property-rights loving conservatives? Seems they suddenly support outlawing free speech in a man’s own home. Raise your voice to a cop? Straight to jail.
Ace:
“Um, yeah, not so much. Of course conservatives self ID at 2 times the rate as “liberals” but then again, you clowns always feel the need to be reassurred becasue of your intellectual insecurities.”
Let’s review.
We recently had an election. Your side lost. Not just the executive but pretty much across the board. You lost in midwest, you lost in the heartland, you lost in places like Virginia and West Virginia, you lost in Indiana for gods sake. Face it, your side is populated by uneducated morons who are literally repulsive to most of the country. Name a Republican with any national following
who could get elected dog catcher right now? Jindal? Newt? Palin? Embarassing. Please, go home and read a book.
The statue is plenty broad enough to include the professor’s behavior, and now we know why the officer wrote down his behavior was “tumultuous”.
The only threshold the cop has to meet is that the behavior was causing ‘alarm’ or ‘annoyance’ or was ‘tumultuous’.
I’m kind of glad liberals call everyone who doesn’t automatically side with blacks as racists, because it will eventually become so overused and used for such petty bs as this, that it will become meaningless.
If Gates had simply accused the cop of abusing his discretion and kept race OUT of it, I would totally support him. But he has to make it about race when all the evidence suggests that it wasn’t about race but about Gates own BEHAVIOR.
We recently had an election. Your side lost. Not just the executive but pretty much across the board. You lost in midwest, you lost in the heartland, you lost in places like Virginia and West Virginia
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Oh man, I love this.
You said this on November 7, 2004, right clown? You were crowing about the Republican dominance, correct?
I love watching you drooling imbeciles in action.
The statistics posted show exactly what I said earlier. That 60 year olds are much less likely to commit violent crime than those younger.
But I guess you didn’t learn reading comprehension in any of your classes. Pity. Maybe if you’d taken African studies courses you wouldn’t be so ignorant.
engages in fighting or threatening, violent or tumultuous behavior
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Um, he rushed onto the porch screaming obscenities and said to the police officer “you don’t know who you’re messing with”
On top of making derogatory comments about the officer’s mother.
You are a complete & utter jackass.
The officer charged him with disorderly conduct right? Here’s the statute genius.
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Hmmmm, who’s judegement do we defer to, a police sargent or a brain dead leftist Internet commenter?
Gee, that’s a real head scratcher…
*Yelling* is subjective. *Speaking softly* is subjective. He may have thought the officer was slightly deaf so he spoke a little louder…nothing to get arrested over though. WHE WHOLE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICE NEEDS TO BRHOUGHT DOWN A PEN OR TWO, THEY HAVE BECOME WAY TOO POWERFULL AFTER 9/11.
I am LMAO. I just read in the Boston Herald that this guy was hand picked by the former black police commissioner to teach a class on racial profiling, which he has done for the last 5 years with antoher black police officer.
Hilarious. And sad.
Here’s the chilling thing. Suppose you’re a cop or a security guard or a bag-checker at an airport. In the course of doing your job, you get on the wrong side of someone who knows the president. Then that president knocks you down in a prime time press conference on national television. Doesn’t matter what the facts are, doesn’t matter who you are: all that matters is that someone connected to power is using that power to bully you.
Now, if this scenario was playing out in a town where the bigwig was a mayor or a local judge, I don’t think anyone would make the mistake of automatically siding with the one in power. But hey, this is Obama we’re talking about here–surely whatever he does is right, right?
The next time someone starts talking about the little guy and speaking truth to power, ask them what they thought of this Gates/Obama incident. Then see if they can process the contradiction.
(For what it’s worth, from reading the police report, if it’s even halfway accurate, then Gates richly deserved to be arrested. It’s like in baseball: argue with the ump all you want, but once he turns his back and walks away, you’re gone if you follow him.)
True that Gates wasn’t arrested for breaking into his own house, and I did not say he was. The police was called because someone perceived his breaking into his house and the caller’s rationale was correct, for who would break into his own home.
Ok… facts and logic don’t seem to work with you ace, so its time to talk to you in a way you really do understand.
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Why do you call yourself Ace, when you really are a Jack?
JackASS, that is. BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!
“For instance, you’re a Republican so you must support sexually exploiting male congressional pages right? I mean, Foley was a Republican so too were the leadership in the house that covered up for him?”
So let’s see; you believe all Republicans support sexually exploiting male congressional pages because of the actions of one, but you refuse to believe that Obama Party members are racist because of the actions of one who happened to be supported and endorsed by the Obama Party President, the Obama Party Black Caucus, and the Obama voters of Detroit.
“Which pretty much describe’s NDT’s excrement of a post.”
Right-o, Nishner. You’re whining about what I say while you’re covering up for your Obama’s flat-out LIE that he never claimed the Cambridge police were stupid.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/20090723white_house_qualifies_obama_remark_about_arrest/srvc=home&position=also
My curiosity in this matter is to what degree the Obama Party members like yourself who have brainwashed themselves into believing that black people are always white and that white people are racists will separate themselves from reality.
Black people are always RIGHT, that is. Shows what I get for typing too fast.
Are there any independent sources of witnesses observing Gates acting belligerent?
ace:
“Hmmmm, who’s judegement do we defer to, a police sargent or a brain dead leftist Internet commenter?
Gee, that’s a real head scratcher…”
Gee, the real head scratcher is why the DA quickly dropped the charges. May I submit the charges were dropped because they knew they could never defend them in court and under oath? I know you will come up all kinds of twisted logic and conspiracy theories. If I were you, I would be calling the DA right now, demanding they reinstate the charges. This will only ensure the DA responsible for Cambridge will know what a complete moron you are.
And what should amaze everyone is a news story that was buried a few weeks ago that shows what racists the Obama Party really are.
“Parents of the Jena Six say they heard Barker was hurling racial epithets, but Barker’s parents insist he did nothing to provoke the beating……
At the hearing, attorneys representing the five men read a statement expressing sympathy to the Barkers and acknowledging that Justin Barker did not use a racial slur.”
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/26/louisiana.jena.6/
After the Obama Party set out to destroy this family and this person by spreading the lie that he had.
north dallas thirty:
“So let’s see; you believe all Republicans support sexually exploiting male congressional pages because of the actions of one, but you refuse to believe that Obama Party members are racist because of the actions of one who happened to be supported and endorsed by the Obama Party President, the Obama Party Black Caucus, and the Obama voters of Detroit.”
Foley’s issues with the male pages were well known to Denny Hastert, the Republican Speaker of the house and all of the house leadership. It was hardly the “actions of one”.
ace:
“you don’t know who you’re messing with” is now a considered a threat? Should we arrest everyone who’s ever said this to a co-worker or clerk at the local deli? Or is it only a threat when you say it to a cop who refused to give you his name a badge number? That’s a unique legal theory. Maybe the next time a Republican wins the white house you should put your name in the ring for the next vacancy on the Supreme Court. I’m sure your theory would make for an interesting confirmation hearing. I can see the headlines now. “Idiot nominated for Supreme Court doesn’t know the law.”
Abismal. We ALL have the right to argue with police. As does Dr. Gates. Freedom of Speach in this country should not be subjects to the whim’s of an individual member of Law Enforcement.
We do not have the right to HIT, or in any way HARM a member of Law Enforcement, but Dr. Gates did not do that, and that the policeman reacted in such a way was, in FACT, stupid, and deserving of an appology.
What does trying to save Reggie Lewis have to do with yet another instance of a punk with a badge disrespecting the very people he’s supposed to serve? Why do cops who happen to act like assholes get a free pass in this country? I thought you guys were the rugged right of America where every home is a castle and every castle has a well-stocked armory in the keep?
Asshole cop responds to call, asks man who he is, man provides ID cop continues to act like ass and man responds in kind. Yeah, Obama really stepped in it this time, I mean, what would a black man in America know about mistreatment by asshole cops.
Palin/Bachmann 2012!
Everyone, including the president, should get their heads out of the sand, get over themselves, keep their nose and comments out of the business of others and do what they can to make the world a better place. Racial profiling? I am white living in a predominately brown-black hood for almost 30 yrs. I have been followed and/or stopped by police 6-7 times (and followed by men of color far more times than that). The last time was July 4th. The police wondered what I was doing there (walking my dog – duh)etc. We had a little chat. I front-out told them “I know, I don’t look like I belong here”. Profiling is everywhere. Quit whining about it, stop being narcissic and cultivate a real love for humanity and help those in need!
I suppose you would have preferred that he call them idiotic, because personal that’s the term I would have used. I think people who have never been singled out because of there skin color or sex should stay out of this issue. The police acted incorrectly, when Gates proved he was the legal resident the police should have apologized for the mistake and removed himself from the man property. I think people are missing the really big picture, when the woman called and stated two black men, the officers arrived in full force. As stated in an article I read earlier it is not against the law to become agitated or yell at a police officer. You are not allowed to threaten anyone with violence let alone a cop but I didn’t hear that he was doing that.
just because you know the president does not mean you get special treatment. Gates should be the one apologizing to the police officer. The cop was just doing his job. The president also needs to get his facts straight and stop lying to the country. If he is going to say that the police officer acted “stupidly” he should know the whole story and not just what he heard.
The media are the clowns that set up that notion of a post-racial society in the first place not the president. Quit crying and try again in 2012.
There’s absolutely no question that Obama made a serious mistake by essentially passing judgement while openly admitting he didn’t have all the facts. Of course people do that all time (hmmm… seems especially common on the internet, where you can run and hide when exposed), but an elected official, someone in the public eye, and by all means the President should know better, and should err on the side of caution until and unless they do have all the facts. In other words, our public servants, who do work for us whether they act like it or not, should be held to a higher standard. At the same time, citing the police report as the “facts of the case” is disingenuous. In my capacity as a private investigator, it has become clear to me that many police reports are complete works of fiction, all the more so when race is involved, when use of excessive force ins involved, or “not respecting the badge” is involved. I’m willing to bet the it’s the last one, rather than race, that got Gates arrested. Sorry, making the smart choice to “shut up and take it” is often difficult when one is confronted with such an absurd situation. So, let’s see, Obama definitely made a mistake, both Gates and the Officer probably made mistakes, racism and racial discrimination (different from profiling) still exists in America and among the “peace-officers”. Now everyone can shut up, go home, and put their rationality hats back in storage.
If US America was so racist, why do we then have a black President? Why do some not want to see that it is not a black or white issue? It is about doing a job right without respect of persons! ESPECIALLY OUR PRESIDENT! C’MON!!!
Here’s the relevant federal statute:
Federal case law here: Duran v. City of Douglas
The nickle summary. “Contempt of cop” arrests are legally infirm:
The freedom of individuals to oppose or challenge police action verbally without thereby risking arrest is one important characteristic by which we distinguish ourselves from a police state. … Thus, while police, no less than anyone else, may resent having obscene words and gestures directed at them, they may not exercise the awesome power at their disposal to punish individuals for conduct that is not merely lawful, but protected by the First Amendment.
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No less well established is the principle that government officials in general, and police officers in particular, may not exercise their authority for personal motives, particularly in response to real or perceived slights to their dignity
oh, and by the way, a President who weighed in on a criminal case he had no involvement in was Nixon, when he aid of Charles Manson during trial, “here’s a man whose guilty of several murders”. It matters not that Manson WAS guilty, and of heinous crimes at that, what matters is that Nixon shot his mouth off without knowing the facts of the case, not having actually been in the courtroom. Although the jurors did find out about this, they were polled on whether that would influence their opinions, and many said it was rather stupid for Nixon to have said such a thing
Obviously, you’re biased from the beginning with the “Haavard” slight. What? Go to a community college, or barely made it past 11th grade? And the liberal assumption doesn’t help either. So from the beginning, you’re one-sided. And it doesn’t take a GED to figure out which one.
The facts are the police were erroneously called to a home by a “concerned” white female who saw two black men with backpacks trying to enter a home in her neighborhood. Who would have guessed she had black neighbors? Obviously, she didn’t? Apparently, Gates works and she doesn’t, which would explain why she was home at the time, when he was returning from a trip to China in the middle of the day. Did the commotion draw her from her soaps or her vibrator?
The bottom line is despite the false alarm, the person at the home when the officers arrived proved they lived there. Nosey neighbor. False alarm.
The question is why wasn’t that good enough?
But I guarantee you, had the nosey neighbor met Dr. Gates under different circumstances, say a neighborhood invitation with the President in attendance. She would have been all shits and grins to be hanging with colored folks.
Maybe she should bake some cookies and mind her own business next time.
The statistics posted show exactly what I said earlier. That 60 year olds are much less likely to commit violent crime than those younger.
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Except for the fact you didn’t say that.
On top of the fact 2 men were seen barging into the front door…
the president offered the correct response and the rest of america should start to act right for a change. something ‘stupid’ ensued from an situation that should have not gotten this far. gates was in his home, the officer need only enquire at that point, if everything was ok, rather than appraoch a non robbery situation as if was what he encountered. it is almost a sure thing that the officer did not approach a crime in progress nor a person instantly belligerent. it is almost a sure thing that mr gates was acting like any other white homeowner in feeling invaded. white america need to stop the ‘STUPIDITY’ now. and if they still don’t get it, they should ask the 65 young black and hispanic kids to repeat what they heard when white folks in philadelphia told them to get out of the pool.
Hahahaha, I love this! Just shows how ignorant whites are to the daily plight of African Americans with regard to Law Enforcement! Average White Americans could give less than 2 damns about African Americans. So let the waters stay part. I for one stopped caring about how the “The Other” Americans felt about my situation in America long ago! It is utterly useless to even have the discussion! This is not about Racial Profiling. It’s about the average African American feeling like he’s in the presence of Osama Bin Laden whenever he has to deal with law enforcement. The police terrorize us! Unless you’re PWT, you probably cannot even relate so keep writing your uninformed, baseless arguments. WE AINT LISTENING! We know what we experience! lololol. In fact, and what’s more interesting is that White American have not a nickel in this particular fight! Why are they upset or even commenting? What are you trying to gain? Why are they even angry? They are upset because some uber smart African Americans with power are flexing it and pushing around one of their (whites) own! Dig in white folk! I love this! Boo hoo, boo hoo! How does that feel when your president sides with the other? Welcome to the Black American experience! lololol What a Joke! The Bin Ladens of the world are really laughing at this one! Democracy My Arse! Bunch of idiots!
Clearly, this is a racist incident, a blatant example of a racist black pseudo-intellectual, a black mayor, a black governor, and a, now, apparently, racist, black U.S. president ganging up on a white policeman who was merely doing his job. Why were the disorderly conduct charges dropped??? Why were the perpetrator’s hands cuffed at the front instead of behind his back??? Why does the perpetrator get interviewed by a toothy, leggy CNN chick while all we really hear about the white cop is that he denied being a racist? Why does our president say the police were stupid for arresting the perpetrator? This is the state of race relations in America: Racist blacks oppress any white citizens who do not conform to their assigned role as liberal running dogs who applaud, bow, and cheer anything and everything any black does or says.
how dare you call our president a raceist just because had a problem with the police the officer was wrong and had now reason to arrest him in his home how can you turn this around if you dont think the police was wrong then you’re the raceist
ace:
“Oh man, I love this.
You said this on November 7, 2004, right clown? You were crowing about the Republican dominance, correct?
I love watching you drooling imbeciles in action.”
Well, no. I said that today. Of course a sentient being might try and figure out how their sides fortunes changed so quickly. One might consider for example the utter incompetence of Republican leadership as one potential cause of this slide in popularity. One might conclude that blind faith in the incompetent leaders who ran the federal government probably contributed to the situation you now find yourself in. You’re probably shocked to learn that calling people names and offering nothing in terms of coherent thought don’t work quite as well as it used to back in ’04. But then that would require a level of intelligence somewhere beyond that of a fruit fly and you obviously don’t meet that standard.
if you dont like our president then go back to europe where you came from
none of this is about the president. it is about white america refusing to move past their bigoted selfs and becoming better people. here is president putting himself on the line to make this a better country for all, and the ugliness of white america refusing to give up their hateful ways.
john henery eden you are in hell
So much for the vaunted conservative support of Free Speech and Property Rights.
in the short time the president has been in office he has done a better job than bush all of you are just mad we have a black president i bet everyone of you that posted a negetive comemnt are all white racist
marc bell:
“what matters is that Nixon shot his mouth off without knowing the facts of the case, not having actually been in the courtroom. Although the jurors did find out about this, they were polled on whether that would influence their opinions, and many said it was rather stupid for Nixon to have said such a thing”
The big difference is that Manson was on trial and the charges against Mr. Gates have been dropped.
There are no legal procedings as of now so there’s no jury to influence. That will probably change but it’s very likely the cop and the city of Cambridge who will be the defendants.
OBAMA JUST HAD TO PICK THE SCAB OFF THE SORE. HE PROVES HE IS NOT COMPETENT TO BE IN THE OFFICE HE IS IN ON A DAILY BASIS. HAS IT BEEN FOUR YEARS OF THIS RACIST YET? I JUST LOST THE LAST OF WHAT LITTLE RESPECT I HAD FOR HIM.
rod mizer youre plain stupid he’s not even from kenya you go back to europe
Why is it that everything has to be black and white? Based on the reports I’ve read the police officer followed proper SOP. He responded to a possible breakin, the man refused to provide Identification when confronted. So what is a cop to think? The correct thing for Mr. Gates was to prove who he was. But no, he had to start with the racial garbage that we hear of constantly and become loud. Instead of being greatful that someone called the police due to a possible breakin, he does what I call ” a big NO, NO” when police ask for your I.D. So Mr. Obama if anyone is stupid is Mr. Gates and you for making the comment just because Gates is your friend. This is typed by an Puertorican former police officer.
ok, full disclosures: I’m white, support Obama to a degree, and am probably far to the left of anyone posting here. But, c’mon, can we please have some civility and intelligence here? Calling the woman who called the police racist because she “couldn’t imagine” that she had black neighbors? You have no FREAKING idea! You weren’t there, and neither was I. The only people who truly know what happened were Crowley and Gates, and of course their impressions are different. Crowley for being a cop, someone whose job it is to tell people to shut up and get back in line (no, the police don’t prevent crime, they clean up afterwords), and Gates for being a Black man in America. You’re right, Teachwell, I can’t truly feel your experience, but I’m not blind either. The police ARE terrorists in urban black communities. Oh, by the way, before anyone stupidly bashes me for being a cop-hater (bash away, but not for stupid reasons), of COURSE there are cops who aren’t “bad’. Of COURSE there are cops who went into the job for the “right” reasons (most get jaded and quit). Of COURSE they are cops who love their wives and kids and are fine upstanding members of the community. None of that has ANYTHING to do with a)the role of the police in society, b)the fact that we have given people weapons and nearly unlimited power on the street, or c)the sickening degree to which this power has been abused. Again, they (supposedly) work for us. They should be held to higher standards
I would like to see what would happen if the average person refused to show an officer an I.D. and then become belligerent. Too bad Obama chose the low road. I voted for him in 2008 but will not again.Obama is a racist, not the police officer doing his job.
After reading these posts i think I better go out and buy a gun (A legal one) to protect myself & family from angry white women and their children! White folk are frothing and really scary today! lololol. Soooo Mad! Why? Such angry people!
Obama must not use such cruel word without knowing the facts. Even if that police officer made a mistake, Obama should not insult the officer in front of the nation.
“you don’t know who you’re messing with” is now a considered a threat? Should we arrest everyone who’s ever said this to a co-worker or clerk at the local deli? Or is it only a threat when you say it to a cop who refused to give you his name a badge number?
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You have not the slightest bit of evidence that the cop refused to give his name and badge # (when of course the # is on the actual badge which is on the officer’s chest).
Further, your imbecillic “analogy” about the deli falls flat as the phrase in question was shouted at a police officer instructing Gates to knock it off.
Again, you’re so dumb it isn’t even funny anymore.
in the short time the president has been in office he has done a better job than bush
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Seriously, thank you for the funniest post of the day.
“Foley’s issues with the male pages were well known to Denny Hastert, the Republican Speaker of the house and all of the house leadership. It was hardly the “actions of one”.”
My personal favorite:
“Democrats receive their share of scrutiny in the report. In August 2005, a former page of Rep. Rodney Alexander (R-La.) sent Alexander aide Danielle Savoy e-mails he had received from Foley asking him for a picture and asking what he wanted for his birthday. Savoy passed them on to a friend, who showed them to her boyfriend, Justin Field, who worked for the House Democratic Caucus.
Democratic Caucus communications director Matt Miller saw the e-mails as inappropriate, but rather than taking them to authorities, he shopped them to the press, first to the Miami Herald and the St. Petersburg Times that November, then to the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call. He also gave the e-mails to the communications director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, a point apparently validating Republican charges that senior Democrats were behind the revelation of Foley’s conduct.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/08/AR2006120800908_2.html
you are not required to show the police any i.d., or in fact give any information whatsoever. It’s called the 5th amendment. You’re right, you’re asking for a beat-down for such behavior, but are we really ok with that???
marc bell,
I for one don’t believe the officer is a racist. I do believe he is a self-important boob who decided to arrest someone for offending him. That is not something we should tolerate and I for one believe it happens everyday in communities across the nation. Police are too prone to close ranks and protect their own when they are challenged. They do not police themselves very well.
Funny how people get caught up on skin colour.
Something to think about: Negroes (12% of population) and Caucasians (60% of population) are on the decline against Hispanics (roughly 25% of the population)… and in about 40 years, it will be the Hispanic population that will be dominating the discourse of “race” in this nation.
Race however, is a fallacy. It is not the tone of a man’s skin that determines his propensity toward anti-social or criminal behaviour.
It is his culture, and nurture – or lack of it – that destroys him.
And I will assert that modern culture of “the ghetto” that most Negroes embrace is what has been destroying them: fatherless men who irresponsibly father bastard children of their own, women who for lack of a strong male leadership in their families turn to socialism and mass welfare programs, and an overall cultural laziness that has beset them since the days when the mendacious and power-grabbing FDR rolled out his first socialist programs (setting the mold for other near-socialists like LBJ and Obama to follow).
The Black man, if redeemed by Christ, and taught to value the hard work of his own hands – and inculcated with the superior and Godly values that Jesus teaches in His Holy Words can do great and mighty things.
President Obama’s remark was not racist or discriminatory. He merely stated his opinion that the officer had acted “stupidly” in arresting the man after finding out that it was his own home. I can see the validity of that opinion, be either of them black or white; race has nothing to do with it. The officer made a “rush to judgement” decision because the man was black, but there is little doubt that he would not do the same thing to a white man whose appearance did not come up to his standards. If the professor had been dressed in Brooks Brothers and Stacy Adams, the officer would not have acted as he did. Yes, this was a stupid decision on behalf of the officer and the President is right on the money by calling it such.
ADDENDUM:
Lest my words be taken out of contex… the same can be said of white or latino or any other race whose culture denies Christ and His words, and turns to the immoral morass of “secular humanism” and its diseased twin “socialism” to train them up.
Thus saith the Lord:
“—– Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. —–” (Proverbs 22:6, KJV)
I would like to know from the supporters of the Police officer – What was the crime? How can you be disorderly in your own home- complying with the officers request. You cannot be charged with disagreeing with a police officer? Again what was the crime?
If there was a crime committed the charges would not have been dropped. The police officer claims that Gates committed a crime that was the sole basis for the arrest.
The officer was not being truthful – that is why President Obama said the officer “acted stupidly”. If Gates had resisted arrest or not complied with the officers commands THAT would have been a crime.
Giving your disagreeable opinion to a police officer in your house where a suspected crime didn’t occur is NOT a crime
You may not like the outcome – but the verdict was just – No crime committed- charges dropped. Can you imagine a District attorney even taking this case to court – HA! HA! HA! -
Even if the DA took it to court — the judge would throw it out for lack of sufficient evidence or the act didn’t rise to the level of a crime. The only crime here was the “stupidity” and lack of professionalism on the part of Officer Crowley
What would have occurred if the Police Officer was Black and entered the house of a prominent White College Professor and the Professor was arrested by the Black Policeman. The Black Officer would probably get shot by someone maybe by another White Polceman. Black Policeman dead and the Professor gets and apology from the Mayor. Would that work for you.
Has any of you MOROONS!!!!!!!! ever been racially profiled? I didn’t think so.
nynick:
Exactly. Protesting a brother officer is more important than protecting the law, or for that matter people in general. Everyone gets offended by someone else’s behavior, is insulted, does not think they’ve been treated fairly, belittled, disrespected, every second of every day. But bodies of armed men with the power of the state behind them will (if you’re lucky) whisk you away to a cell for doing any of that to them. No, it doesn’t matter whether this particular officer was racist, or if this was a race-based event (which is why Obama put his foot in his mouth). But this treatment DOES happen disproportionately to blacks, Latinos, asians, arabs, gays, and the poor. C’mon, Neanderthal Limbaugh-lovers, tell me why they deserve it.
ace:
“You have not the slightest bit of evidence that the cop refused to give his name and badge # (when of course the # is on the actual badge which is on the officer’s chest).”
Other than the statement Mr. Gates wrote, no I don’t. The police report doesn’t mention anything about Gates asking for his name and badge but I wouldn’t take that as evidence that conversation didn’t happen. What we do know without a doubt is that these charges were dropped within 24 hours of his arrest.
“Further, your imbecillic “analogy” about the deli falls flat as the phrase in question was shouted at a police officer instructing Gates to knock it off.
Again, you’re so dumb it isn’t even funny anymore.”
Since you’re apparently too stupid to actually understand much about the law, let me re-post the relevant federal case law regarding police behavior. In short, “knock it off” isn’t exactly enshrined in our legal system as a basis for arresting someone in their own front yard. Are you really this dumb? At first I thought you were just playing an ignorant wingnut to get attention but now I’m a believer. You sir are an idiot of the highest order. You’re parents must be very proud.
The nickle summary. “Contempt of cop” arrests are legally infirm:
“The freedom of individuals to oppose or challenge police action verbally without thereby risking arrest is one important characteristic by which we distinguish ourselves from a police state. … Thus, while police, no less than anyone else, may resent having obscene words and gestures directed at them, they may not exercise the awesome power at their disposal to punish individuals for conduct that is not merely lawful, but protected by the First Amendment.
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No less well established is the principle that government officials in general, and police officers in particular, may not exercise their authority for personal motives, particularly in response to real or perceived slights to their dignity”
tawied,
If all the whites went back to Europe (and us Asians back to Asia), do you think you still have the US you have been getting welfare from? If you folks are that capable, why not turn your ancestor’s land into a power continent? I was hoping your Queen Oprah would do that but she ain’t have any of Africa, she would rather suffer racism that has been putting billions in her bank account in the US. And Obama ain’t gonna wanna be Kenya’s King either. Wait, could it be that were you, Oprah, Obama not the US citizens, the African folks probably would not give you the time of day. Lord, they didn’t care for your ancestors few centuries ago and let you be sold into slavery. Quit thinking you built this country and quit telling the whites, or any other races, to go back to there and there.
I thought you needed a warrant to enter someone’s home? Why was the guy arrested? Did he break the law? Was it something he said? Did the officer have nothing better to do? Write up a report,get his name in the paper ? Was the black man an uppity person? Was the officer a white man? An uppity white man? So many questions so few answers.
Sometimes police do show their belligerency when confronting an individual. In my opinion the officer had a right to question the individual! When the individual presented identification showing proof that he in fact lived there, that should have ended the story. There are many officers who think they are above the law and will encourage individuals to be defensive.
where was obama outrage when Dante Stallworth made a conscious choice to drink, a conscious choice to drive drunk and killed a man with his vehicle and served 24 days….he doesnt know the facts all he knows is my friend said so, there were 6 police officers present, 4 of which were black, who by the way do not disagree with the arresting officer..the man was beligerent and rude and obnoxious and uncooperative in a situation where he could have simply shown ID and been glad his neighbors were watching out for him…so much for a post racial period, my friend is black, because he said, the officer is white, my friend said, and oh no, my friend would nt race bait..pathetic, yes I am black and yes I am a police officer, both the professor and the president are way off base…just want to be in the news
Shocked by some of the comments here…to much for rebuttal I guess All I can say is God Bless Amerikka!
Thank you, Marc Bell, for making it obvious how bigoted and prejudiced you are against the police.
“Protesting a brother officer is more important than protecting the law, or for that matter people in general.”
“But this treatment DOES happen disproportionately to blacks, Latinos, asians, arabs, gays, and the poor. C’mon, Neanderthal Limbaugh-lovers, tell me why they deserve it.”
Hmmmm….so your thinking here is that, because these people are of minority status, any sort of arrest, imprisonment, or somewhat is based solely on their skin color/income/sexual orientation and does not have anything to do with their actual behavior.
I think the problem here is obvious.
A good way for the Cambridge Police to put an end to this would be to release the on board video from the police car, if they have one, and most police departments equip their cars with them now. If Professor Gates was calling Sgt. Crowley a racist because he asked for I.D. then he needs to appologize to Sgt. Crowley. Sgt. Crowley on his part could have left the scene without an arest once he had identified Prof. Gates as the homeowner. Pres. Obama would also need to appologize to the Cambridge Police for his uncalled for remarks, not knowing all the fatcs. I was a police officer for 27 years and know that the police are supposed to be able to take a alot of verbal abuse without making an arrest. If not there would be alot of overflowing jail cells. Verbal abuse and confrontation come with the job. So long as someone is not threatening you or others physical harm, drive away once you have the info. Those are my thoughts, not having been there, or having seen or heard a video recording of the incident.
nuthin but haterz
hey rod being inaugurated means he is in fact your president
ok, I know this is going to be a mistake, but…
Seekeronos:
PLEASE shoe me evidence that one who subscibes to “secular humanism” cannot be a moral person! I guess it depends it depends on which morals are most important. Doing good works, being kind, loving, helping others all apparently count far less than accepting the word of God. If that’s your standard, than your argument is circular in nature, and fails. “You can’t be moral if you don’t believe in God because not to believe in God is immoral”
So it’s the FAULT of the poor that they live wretched lives because they don’t accept the Lord??? Boy, that sure is vain and petualant God you have. “Worship me, and do what I say, and you’ll get everlasting joy and life, free from pain, but if you deny me, you will be damned to everlasting pain”. That kind of God sounds like he’s running a protection racket! On the evils of socialism, read the Sermon on The Mount. And by the way, tossing “socialism” around to describe the policies of Obama and other “liberals is just absurd. Obama the socialist who just gave the banking and automotive industries nearly a trillion dollars. Hey. wait, Bush wanted to do the same thing. He must have been a socialist as well! Aaaaghhhh! They’re everywhere! And that socialist FDR saved American Capitalism, or at least saved it from having to employ the tactics that Germany and Italy did in order to survive.
After reading many of your articles and the links on your site it is clear that YOU are a racist! All your stories are about black or brown people and none of them are good. Every negative story was about someone of color. Coincidence? I think not!
You sit there and claim that the police officer did nothing wrong! How would you like to be at your home and have a cop walk into your house under the impression you were braking in? A white person would probably have pulled a gun and you would be praising him for excersising his constitutional rights and protecting his home from a unwarranted invasion! If you can’t see that Gates actually under-reacted your a bigot and an idiot!(same thing actually) Lucky for that officer he wasn’t in Texas, walking into a private residence here usually results in lead poisoning! Furthermore I have yelled and cursed at police and never been arrested! Since when can someone be arrested for yelling? Maybe the officer was intimidated by this scruffy, intimidating negro! lol (that was sarcasm)
A bunch of angry white people. Do you really think america belong to you all.You all speaking with so authorative tone of voice, like nobody else view points does not count. I have a book for you bastards, it is called: How the Irish became white. You are a bunch of whiner.It is the English that founded this Country. The Jews,the Irish, the Itallians, remember you did not considered white when you all first landed in America.Because you have more people fall under the white umbrella, dont mean you control america. As soon as someone arrived in this country they are American.This is a free country and none of you cant stop that, so go and kill yourself.
“As the occupant of the WH, Obama has a responsibility to speak for all Americans. He appears to be showing a pattern of not doing that, but seeing everything through a lens of racial politics, first. It is as unfortunate as it is dumb.”
Are you kidding me??? Like Bush spoke for all Americans!!! Get a real
grip! Bush and Reagan both were a piece a crap!! Bush was drunken, cocaine user and Reagan’s “Reaganomics” destroyed the Black community and put a bunch of small minority owned businesses out of business. I should know I was one of them! Bush lied and led us into not one but two wars and lied the rest of way through his first stolen election!!! Stupid a-hole was sent packing back to Texas. NEITHER HIM NOR REAGAN WERE MY PRESIDENTS. GLAD REAGAN IS DEAD. BUSH NEEDS TO JOIN HIM QUICKLY!!!!
When Obama says ‘we’ he means the members of the community he helped organize. When Pelosi says the ‘American people’ she means Democrats. All the rest of us are merely taxation fodder.
If I were unable to enter my home due to a hardware problem, I would try to find an open window, or some other form of entry. If a neighbor who did not recognize meand called the police, I would appreciate the fact that my property was being protected.
If an officer arriving on the scene asked me for identification that would prove I actually lived in my home, I would be even more apprecitive that the officer was making sure I was not an actual thief making up a story to avoid being arrested for attempted burglary.
Why did the homeowner not realize his property was being protected? I suppose his vanity couldn’t absorb the fact the officer didn’t automatically realize he was a big shot. If this guy would only have worn his T-Shirt with the words, “I am a Big Shot”, none of this would have happened.
P.S. I am white, I voted for Obama, and Obama was WRONG!
“After reading many of your articles and the links on your site it is clear that YOU are a racist!”
Oh, okay. On the other hand, I only had to read one comment by you to conclude you’re dumb!
North Dallas Thirty:
That is not in any way what I said. Read it over without deciding beforehand. I NEVER said anything VAGUELY like “thinking here is that, because these people are of minority status, any sort of arrest, imprisonment, or somewhat is based solely on their skin color/income/sexual orientation and does not have anything to do with their actual behavior.”
not even close. You are not even taking statements out of context. You are making them up. It is plain as day that I was referring to abuse of power by police, not to arrests, convictions, sentences, or anything else. The GAO statistics show that all of those are also influenced by race, but not only was that not my point, it’s not CLOSE to what I said. Stop it. If you want to engage in a civil, rational discussion, by all means do, but if not, why bother posting at all?
LEGAL DEFINITION OF DISORDERLY CONDUCT -
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Disorderly+Conduct
PUBLIC, PUBLIC, PUBLIC. Not private property. Gates can be as belligerent as he wants to be on private property, especially his own private property. Officer Pigglywiggly was wrong, needs to stop making up the law as he goes along, be placed on a week’s suspension without pay and then given mandatory retraining about the law. They also need to show ID when asked, not slap the cuffs on someone for asking, telling, or demanding ID. We are not in a police-state (yet) although it seems the vast majority of you would like that. Please move to Iran.
north dallas thirty:
“Thank you, Marc Bell, for making it obvious how bigoted and prejudiced you are against the police.”
Dumb. The police are not always right. Do you think police never abuse their position? Saying this officer overstepped his authority does not mean all cops always overstep their authority. Judgements have to be made on a case by case basis. In this case, Mr. Gates posed no threat to the officers. They confronted him in his own home. He may have said something that offended the officer. That makes Mr. Gates obnoxious. It does not make him a criminal subject to arrest. Race aside, the cop arrested him because he was mad. That’s not a good enough reason. End of story.
There were some black men looking in my window the other day. I chased them away with a baseball bat. Yes, I was racial profiling. No doubt in my mind they were looking for the libray or my safe. Besides, we all know black jobless men dont commit crimes. Obama is a hero to all blacks. He proves you can be drug dealer and commit felonies and still become Prez.
I think ,this police officer acted stupidly 1000 times to stress the point.
How do u break into one’s house without introducing yourself to the home owner and u just handcuff him”I used to think that such officers are employed to do what they are knowing,I think he did something such a praised officer should not have done at all.About our beloved president’s comment.Obama is right.So those of u who want to seize on that open comment to attach the beloved president ,u better stop ,u can’t taint the name of the President just because he made a honest comment,where did he let down the police officer as some pple are concluding.I have not seen Obama attacking all police officers ,he has commented on the stupidity of the one who acted stupidily and those who act or will act rightly have nothing to be blamed by Obama.God bless America but kindly stay away frm Racism
Oh My God, what do they teach people in civics these days?
NO a police officer DOES NOT NEED A WARRANT to go into a domecile in response to a 911 call that says a crime is in progress. WTF? That doesn’t even make sense.
It is true that you are not legally required to provide ID to a cop, but if the cop comes to a house where a burglary has just been reported and you refuse to give ID to prove you are not a buglar, then don’t be surprised if the cop is suspicious of you.
Given that this officer has been praised by black and white cops, teaches as CLASS IN RACIAL PROFILING at the police academy and has ZERO history of behavorial let alone racial problems and that PRof. Gates has made an entire career out of race, I am inclined to go with Officer Crowley on this one.
Lastly, the Mass statute covering disorderly conduct was posted on here, and Gates behavior as described absolutely fits within the description.
Somewhere in Kenya or Indonesia……a village is missing it’s idiot.
Don’t forget just because Obama’s skin is of darker hue he is still 50% white. That old 1% black blood stuff is out! We are in a totally different era. It is true that Obama commented on the situation without all the facts and he will have to take whats coming. After reading the report it seems as though something may have provoked the men, if not they were being a-holes and needed to show identification and proof of residence. No one knows exactly what happened, thats why they have investigations. Also, the person that posted the comment about Obama needing to go back to Kenya is giving a prime example of what blacks face in this country.
Gates ain’t exactly chopped liver. Gates has been attacked as being too accommodating on Race issues.
Wikipedia says;
Gates has been the recipient of nearly 50 honorary degrees and numerous academic and social action awards. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1981 and was listed in Time among its “25 Most Influential Americans” in 1997. On October 23, 2006, Gates was appointed the Alphonse Fletcher Jr. University Professor at Harvard University. In January 2008, he co-founded The Root, a website dedicated to African-American perspectives published by The Washington Post Company. Gates currently chairs the Fletcher Foundation, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is on the boards of many notable institutions including the New York Public Library, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Aspen Institute, the Brookings Institution, the Studio Museum of Harlem, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, HEAF (the Harlem Educational Activities Fund), and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, located in Stanford, California.[2]
In 2002 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected Gates for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government’s highest honor for achievement in the humanities.[21] Gates’ lecture was entitled “Mister Jefferson and the Trials of Phillis Wheatley”[22] and was the basis for his book The Trials of Phillis Wheatley.[23]
In 2006, Gates was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution after he traced his lineage back to John Redman, a Free Negro who fought in the Revolutionary War.[24]
The popular Harvard-area burger restaurant, Mr. Bartley’s Burger Cottage, sells a Professor Skip Gates burger topped with pineapple and teriyaki sauce.
First, for the record I am an African American woman. I am a huge supporter of President Obama, however, I do believe that if he did not know all the facts that he should not have made a comment. When I heard his remark, I knew that his statement would overshadow his message about healthcare reform.
I believe that this country is moving forward in a positive way when it comes to racial discrimination, but sometimes it seems as if leaders in the African American community, such as Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson try to insight anger in the black community, when a situation occurs between a white person and a black person. I am tired of them “crying wolf” all the time. I think that this situation can be a lesson learned and teach us to wait for a thorough investigation, before marching on the streets crying about racial inequalities.
i do think the homeowner who’s property the police were trying to protect should have apologized at the scene of the incident and thanked them for responding. then none of this racist crap would be being talked about but in this politicaly correct world we would not find fault with the black man or child as he could never be referred to as a man due to his inability to know he was wrong and appologize for his behavior.
“In this case, Mr. Gates posed no threat to the officers.”
I quote from above:
“You have no FREAKING idea! You weren’t there, and neither was I.”
But of course, that doesn’t stop you from making absolute statements that absolve Gates and fully blame the officers.
Based, of course, on two things: police are always wrong, and black people are always right.
After reading many of your articles and the links on your site it is clear that YOU are a racist!”
Oh, okay. On the other hand, I only had to read one comment by you to conclude you’re dumb!
Posted by: Dan Riehl | Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 04:50 PM
Spoken like a well educated 5 year old Dan! Now I see the intellilect and logic we are dealing with here!
Go put on yout hood Dan your going to be late for your KKK meeting!
I’m gonna read some more of your stories about how bad brown people are and how they are destroying our country! Thanks for enlighting us “dumb” people Danny Boy! : )
By the way, glad to see BET…I maan CNN doing another Black in America 2. Where is Asian in America or Latino in America. How many blacks watch CNN again? The whole special makes blacks look inferior. LOL
why is it that these loud mouths play the race card?what next that other loud mouth will show up,(al sharpton)it seems that we give these loud mouths coverage and on and on it goes.the news can’t get over the death of michael jackson.the person who called the police was only looking out for his neighbor when he /she called the police and this ungrateful sot has the audacity to garbage talk the cop,he shouldn’t apologize,screw this brainless moron.
Jay Stanton:
Yes, you’re right. And all here should note, that in every description of the event, Gates was arrested AFTER he left his home and went out onto the porch. There he was subject to arrest. While I maintain that Gates had a right to be pissed off, he should’ve known the law better.
Otherwise… the level of racism and hatred here is just… sad. It makes me feel extremely pessimistic about the future of this country. Genetically speaking, “race” doesn’t even exist. People who are considered “white” may have more genetic differences with other “white” people than they do with “black” people.
The ability to make a cogent argument is all dismaying. Is this what our school systems are turning out? Or is it more the fault of a culture in which 40% of Americans say that they didn’t read a single book in the preceding year? Sounds like a chicken-and-egg type question
Dear Rod Mizer
u can just express you anger over Obama but just know u have no capacity to send him to Kenya,think the God who move Obama to Hawai to meet Mum Dunhum is stronger than u and u can’t do otherwise,plz learn how to live with things even when u can’t change or u dont like them
bakare
Another scum-bag black and his buddy, the Big O, trying to scam the world with racist foolishness. The clowns are the real racists and white are getting sick of hearing about black anything. The Big O is on his way out – especially after this episode showing his obvious bias against whites.
Say what you will because no one is listening. You bigots are a hilarious JOKE and all of the hope prayers and wishes don’t change who YOUR president is currently, and yes he is your president like it or not and for those of you so simple minded to suggest even that this is or would be consider his polictical downfall wake up!!!! And as far as if he is or isn’t anti semetic or not so is more than have of the free world. I myself being a decendant of Jews can’t even stand to associate with them, and Euro Americans or as my black friend call them WHITEY well hell they hates themselves so how can I be suggested that a person who is a minority hates or otherwise has distain for them a racist. Give me a break! The white population for the most part is just sore because you didn’t get what you wanted this time around ( the trailer park hag-housewife& Jim Cro LO go somewhere and get a tan and some of those lip injections you fancy so much and leav the politics to the President.
Well lets not forget that his wife runs something (hospitals)in the medical field and surely he is trying to set himself with riches by the next election, because he wont be in there again.
Sure glad this clown got into office when he couldnt make it any worse or any better, he’s just a puppet for the NWO. No effect whatsoever, just showing that reverse racism is on the rise, and used our giving system which protected him and his race to catapult himself there to crush whitey when he could.
Use the police to your advantage and clean up your streets, make your neighborhoods safe for your children again. Work with the police and buy crack and heroin for them, from your neighborhood dealers and set their asses up to do life in prison. No one likes a snitch, but everyone hates a neighborhood where you arent safe. How many white crack dealers you know ??? Really ! How many ?! Point blank.
Whites arent shooting each other in their homes, heavy metal bands and rock stars arent killing each other,unlike rappers with their live for today ethics, nor are whites ALWAYS pointing the finger of racism at anyone for a free pass out of something they were responsible for.
Face it – Black America has behavioral problems that arent curable, you just cant tell them anything and if you do they arent listening.
Whats most messy about this is its almost always the men crying about racism, the women just find a good man no matter the color.
Im really suprised the envelope hadnt been pushed for affirmative action on the oval office since it is a job.
Aint many whiteboys riding on 24 inch rims around here, were not benefitting from the drug trade as much as they are.
Again – Work with the police and buy crack and heroin for them, from your neighborhood dealers and set their asses up to do life in prison. No one likes a snitch, but everyone hates a neighborhood where you arent safe !!
Use the police to drive them out.
I dont see why discussing this makes any sense. Fact is, a good portion of Americans will always be racist, cops will always hit on certain folks,most blacks will always feel threatned, and ‘rod mizer’ whoever you are why dont you send back your ancestors to Britain or wherever else. America belongs to the natives. America’s history and success is founded upon the blood of many throught history. 3 centuries and a 4th of July cannot replace history. America will never change. Its in everyone’s genes thru successive generations no matter their color, creed, ethnic background or religious affiliation.
It is illegal to impede the investigation of a police officer. All Mr. Gates (who wants to be considered an upstanding law-abiding citizen, I’m sure) had to do was show his identification and answer some questions. Showing I.D alone, unfortunately does not mean that the person holding the I.D. is in fact that person. We all know (or should anyway) about the prevalence of indentity theft in this country. If you were to lose your wallet (or have your wallet stolen and recovered) you would need to confirm that it was indeed your wallet and not merely to identify just yourself as the owner of the wallet. In Connecticut, where I live, HOME INVASION is a huge issue. Personally, I would rather answer some questions to a policeman and know that when I need them they will respond. How unfortunate would it be if in fact Mr. Gates had been a victim of HOME INVASION or identity theft, and the police took it lightly?
Mr. Gates is under the incorrect assumption that the world revolves around injustices to minorities. As is, it appears Barack Obama and his Sotomayer Supreme Court Judge candidate. The world does not revolve about racial and social disparities, much as Conservatives and Liberals both would have you think. The planet won’t stop spinning whenever ‘racial discrimination’ is shouted from the rooftops, even if it comes from the rooftop of the White House.
David:
“I was a police officer for 27 years and know that the police are supposed to be able to take a alot of verbal abuse without making an arrest. If not there would be alot of overflowing jail cells. Verbal abuse and confrontation come with the job. So long as someone is not threatening you or others physical harm, drive away once you have the info. Those are my thoughts, not having been there, or having seen or heard a video recording of the incident.”
Thank you. I know being an officer is sometimes a very thank-less job. Making an arrest in this situation seems like a stretch to me but as you say, we weren’t there. What we DO know is the charges were dropped quickly which means the arrest probably should never happened.
That said, read the comments here and you can see how sore a subject race continues to be America at the beginning of the 21st century. White people simply cannot understand the rage that still exists within the black community. Whites tend to view this rage as proof of something sinister when in fact it is the inevitable residue of hundreds of years of oppression and mistreatment at the hands of the state. Blacks have a unique and sometimes incongruent view of American History.
Most have experienced either first hand of through a close relation, some form of racial animus.
White people have no idea what that does to ones psyche. That a black man would react differently to the type of misunderstanding that took place on Mr. Gates’ front porch should be viewed through the collective history of race relations in America. Had the officer understood that history just a touch better, he would have walked away.
President Obama spoke volumes Wednesday Night after his speech. He told white America that his radical black upbringing seen in Rev. Wright, was just under the surface of his paper thin rhetoric. Mr. Obama should not have taken the question, about which he had NO official information. He should not have commented on the question, out of the context in which it was asked. Instead, he made a broad racially-driven manifesto of black racisism in America. The reply was intellecrtually disengenious, but patently pleasing to the “Hate America First” crowd. In the face of opposing, “first hand evidence” the president, called the police stupid. THIS is his inner feelings, his bile for white America, leaking out. This is his Bill Ayres, and his New Black Panther blood spilling on the floor. Big mistake Mr. President. Now, we know YOU, like your “poverty pimp” buddies cannot call a black man a criminal under ANY circumstances, hence your Anarchistic roots are showing. How sad, that America was not bright enough to see your lies.
Sisao Tresed
San Diego, CA
Its un-American to act like Reverse Racism does not exist !
anon,
“Lastly, the Mass statute covering disorderly conduct was posted on here, and Gates behavior as described absolutely fits within the description.”
No, it doesn’t. It does only if you ignore the “violence” and “threatening” language. Again, there is federal case law and state case law that says unless a threat is percieved or a public safety issue is apparent, you can’t be charged with disorderly conduct for an angry verbal confrontation with the police.
This is their way of making the cops attack whites more often and let blacks slide by with their crimes. Look at every inner city that is a major city, completely destroyed….and who occupies those areas ?
North Dallas Thirty:
PLEASE try to control your desire to put your words into the mouths of other people! Do you not know you are doing this, or just trying to get a rise?
“Obama is not an American Citizen”
“Obama is a Muslim”
The 9-11 attacks were a conspiracy, an inside job”
“Climate Change is a hoax”
“The Holocaust never happened”
say things enough, and ascribe them to sources from which they did not emerge, and people will begin to believe they are true. When evidence to the contrary is overwhelming (the Holocaust for example) this strategy will fall on it’s face. But many other times, people believe what they hear just because “I read it”, “I heard it on the radio”, “I saw it on TV”. without ever checking the biases, agendas, or bona-fides of those who said it. After awhile, it becomes accepted as truth simply through inertia. When one knows better, this is intellectually lazy at best, and harmful to the marketplace of ideas at worst. PLEASE point out anywhere here that ANYONE has said, “the police are always wrong, and black people are always right”.
Accuse people people of sometjing enough, and someone is bound to believe you
It’s the fault of the Jews! The Armenians! The Tutsis! The Native Amnericans! The Muslims! The Socialists! Use the lack of logic you’ve displayed here, and you’ll get the world you deserve
NDT,
The officer filed a police report and in it, he makes no mention of any threat or threatening actions on the part of Mr. Gates. Unless the cop is a dumb as you apparently are, one would think if a threat occurred, he might have mentioned it.
Rob, you are right! Aren’t we being told to be vigilant about suspicious behaviors and report what doesn’t look right? The poor woman who made the 9-1-1 call will probably be harassed in her neighborhood now, and I hope she continues to show the moral courage to continue on to monitor and report behaviors like that! But… I forget…the ties that no doubt Gates as well as Obama has with the domestic terrorist group here.. the black panthers…but I suppose they don’t consider them terrorists.. since of course they are BLACK panthers.
I am just curious now to find out…who really bought Obama? Whose agenda is he working to promote?
Somewhere in Kenya or Indonesia……a village is STILL missing it’s idiot!!! Nice to know the liberal proofreaders are watching Barry’s back! LMMFAO!!
Poor Dan isn’t a Riehl racist, it’s not his fault that everything wrong with this country is the fault of people of color
Wait! I did see an article that called nobel prize winner Al Gore an idiot! He must be off-white lol
Fat Chance
stanton great post….glad to see how everyone just ignores the actual legally definition of the alledged crime the officer arrested the guy for.
The charges were dropped because they weren’t applicable to the situation and because a judge would not have found him guilty. The officer should have enough working knowledge of such a common charge given his extensive experience and this wouldn’t have been an issue if he hadn’t abused his power to prove his point to someone that in all likelihood was being a jerk and let me be the first to point out i think Gates bad behavior and rudeness didn’t come from his race it came from his Social Status and Wealth.
Umm.. Did the author of this blog entry actually read the police report he chastises others for not reading? There is nothing in there that would warrant Dr. Gates’s arrest. It is not a crime to call cops racist or for screaming what he did. Any 1st year law student will tell you that this is constitutionally-protected speech. So yes, based on the evidence that you have provided, one can easily conclude that the arresting officer acted stupidly.
S.P.
I don’t think the woman who made the 9/11 call is a racist. I don’t think Prof. Gates believes she acted out of racism. She simply saw someone trying to jimmy the door and called cops. It’s the police who overstepped their authority here. Once Mr. Gates showed his I.D. (which btw included his address and his picture), the incident should have been over as far as the state is concerned regardless of what Mr. Gates may have said to the cops.
I have to say, I don’t think he’s seeing things in a lens of racial politics. He was simply saying that anyone would be mad if this happened to them. Anyone would be pissed if they could provide proof that they were in fact in their own home and they were still taken away by the police. And futhermore, the Cambridge police did act with stupidity when they took the guy away from his home after showing proof that he lived there. Is there racial profiling and politics involved? Maybe. But thank goodness Obama didn’t say that any black person would be angry if a white police officer arrested him/her after showing proof that they lived in their own house. Like I had said earlier, he said that anybody, which means they could be white, black, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, etc., would be offended if something like this happened to them. Seeing things through a lense of racial politics? I think not.
Ouch!!!
This could be the window to what will happen in the future— I had real high hopes for the President. My vote will make a difference in the coming election in 39 months!
ace that is funny…maybe we can start the succession petition for them.
Clearly everyone in here suffers from Mr. Gates’ alleged racial prism. How in the world that is transferred to President Oboma is beyond me.
First off, whatever happened to the 4th Amendment and the “my home is my castle argument.” Clearly President Obama said “we would be upset” if someone entered your home unwelcomed (regardless of race).
Second, President Obama called the Officer stupid because allegedly there was clear evidence that the perp (Mr. Gates) entered his own home. So the basis for the initial complaint was without warrant. Why continue…we are free to say anything we like to police officers. I am not saying that police officers should be our Whipping Boy or Sounding Board but they are paid to deal with the public.
This is why I am a big supporter of the 1st and 2nd Amendment. Trust me…I would not have thrown any racial slurs at these cops. I would have kindly asked them to leave…and if they had not complied I would have thrown them a fist full of bird shot and lead.
At my house, thank god I live in Florida which allows for carry and conceal weapons permit (god I love that 2nd amendment), I have a closet full of lead. Gota love it folks!!
hey jd. i live in sc. whites are the minority in my neck of the woods. it’s a scary place and since “the one” took over it’s gotten even scarier for my family and myself. we’re moving far from here. being white in america is starting to suck. and it will only get worse, my friend. mark my words. i hear costa rica is nice…..
May be blacks and other non-whites should leave Cambridge, MA and live else where. Leave this town for whites only..
President Obama comments shot out the heart of every police officer in the nation trying to do his or her job. He owes the police in this country an apology for being “stupid” himself. He should have said no comment or simply stated in America we let the legal system work before we past judgement and left it at that. To say what he did is a vicious and undeserved punch in the face to every police officer in this country by a man who should know better.
Did anyone really think any issue regarding race would be looked at in a non racial way by a black president, no, because when it comes down to it, we all still carry the burden of seeing whites as the aggressors and blacks the victims, alot of people will not like that statement but the truth is, Obama is only a man and when it comes to race having a title behind his name will not take away the racismhe hisself has as do each of us, that is a shame and we have to continue making sure statements are not made like this before facts are known, even the president had no right to make this statement and come next election I hope all remembers, we do not need a president to further divide our country based on race, we do enough of that on our own as americans.
Jim Crow is still alive, Hitler’s clones came to America in disguise as religious zealots.
America’s problems are caused by Native Americans, killed by Caucasians, Mexicans whose lands were stolen by white men, by Asians and Blacks who built the country.
There is a lot of insecurity and arrongance among white people. Are you afraid that your lies are catching up with you? You jaded your kids they turned out lazy and confused about who they are and what are wrong. Why should a white person in America be poor and lazy after 300 years of free ride and endless privileges. I guess if you are innocent you should not be scared or guilty.
Stop your stupidity for the world is laughing at you. Stop talking about what you do not know.
Stop worshiping Hitler and face the facts that nothing is forever.
Who is white in America, today, Jews, Red Russians, Arabs, portugese, Hispanic, Spaniards, or what.
Ehere would you go if all were to vacate America today and give Native Americans back the lands stolen from them? We are all in this together, so think like a human being and shut up.
OBAMA TOLD THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON IN THIS RACIST COUNTRY AND HE DOES NOT NEED TO APOLOGIZE TO ANYONE!! MOST OF THESE COMMENTS FROM WHITE PEOPLE WHO DON’T KNOW A DAMN THING ABOUT WHAT WE, AS AFRICAN AMERICANS, GO THROUGH DAILY IN THIS COUNTRY FROM RACISTS & BIGOTS. IF YOU HAVEN’T EXPERIENCED IT, KEEP QUIET. YOU CAN’T HAVE AN OPINION ON SOMETHING YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT. HAD THAT MAN BEEN WHITE, NONE OF THAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED. I KNOW INSTANCES WHERE WHITE MEN HAVE BACKED UP TO SOMEONE’S HOME, EMPTIED IT OUT WHILE THE NEIGHBORS WATCHED BUT HAD THE “MOVERS” BEEN BLACK OR HISPANIC, THE WHOLE POLICE FORCE WOULD HAVE BEEN THERE.
THESE CONSTANT ATTACKS ON PRESIDENT OBAMA’S CHARACTER AND DECISIONS ARE NOTHING MORE THAN PATHETIC, WHINING REPUBLICANS AND BIGOTS, PISSED OFF BECAUSE AN AFRICAN AMERICAN IS IN THE WHITE HOUSE! GET USED TO IT, PUPPY DOGS, THIS NATION IS CHANGING (THANK GOD) FOR THE BETTER AND OUR POLITICIANS AND OTHERS ARE BEGINNING TO REFLECT THIS NATION AS A WHOLE HAS ALWAYS INCLUDED PEOPLE OF COLOR, INDIANS, BLACK, HISPANIC, ASIAN, ARABS, ETC. IT IS NO LONGER ONE NATION UNDER WHITES!!!!!
His actions did not meet the definition of the crime he was charged with. That’s why charges were dropped.
The officer given the common nature of this charge and his extensive experience should have known this and i don’t think can claim ignorance.
That said i don’t think this cops actions had anything to do with the mans color i think it had to do with his attitude and behavior….which while rude and obnoxious were not illegal.
Let me break it down.
Man had right to be upset. Due to man’s high level of wealth and high social status felt the police officers were below him so he was rude and likely talked down to the officer. Officer abused a statute to prove a point to a guy that whose only crime was being a rich jerk that feels he is entitled to shit on those not up to his level of education…..his professional status….or those not wealthy enough to live in his exclusive neighborhood. Cop let it get to him and it became personal and he abused a statute improperly to make a point. One big peeing contest.
These racist comments prove that we have a big problem in America. We have so much hate for each other. Let’s stop looking at color to make a decision. Lets look at the facts and than decide who was right or wrong regardless of the color. It seems that all black Americans side with Mr. Gates and the whites Americans side with the police office.
We are still STUPID AMERICANS! We have not learned from OUR history.
That is why other countries laugh at us. WE HAVE NOT LEARNED!
It’s not an issue of the race, the cops on the scene were both white and black. People are missing the point that the man did nothing deserving of being arrested. Just in from an international flight everyone would be tired. Not being able to get into your own home would be fustrating. He was not arrested until he chanlleged the officer about his lack of professionalism. There is not one person in America regardless of race that would appreciate being led away in handcuff for asking a police officer for his badge if they thought they had been mistreated. Everyone who thinks the police handled this correctly has obviuosly never been bullied by Police. It happens every day black, white, latino. The officer over reacted when he felt chanllenged, that is what police do because they feel empowered. It’s not race it’s an erosion of civil rigths in America. How many of the posters here have never mouthed off at a cop for getting a ticket? People by some of the responses posted it appears Gates may have been right. Look at the situation not the color of the participants. The cop should apologize not for being a racist, but because he exceeded his authority. I believe Police are trained to keep thier composure when we the public lose ours.
Obama was raised by a white mother while his black father abandoned him. So he is half white yet now he wants to act only black. Acting only black disrespects his mother but he used being black to get elected. Leave the police alone and let them do their job. It’s not always about race. If people would stop running their mouths about race then maybe we would all get along better as one. I do not think I am racist but where I live there are many African Americans and Latinos so maybe statistically they are stopped more. Give it a rest already.
Of course Obama was right. An older man in his own house, cane and bags in hand, shouldn’t be arrested by police. He was in his own house. Did they have a warrant? They should have just walked away. The only reason this became news was because it was a Harvard professor. You can bet you r bottom dollar this happens all the time and we don’t hear about it.
His actions did not meet the definition of the crime he was charged with. That’s why charges were dropped.
The officer given the common nature of this charge and his extensive experience should have known this and i don’t think can claim ignorance.
That said i don’t think this cops actions had anything to do with the mans color i think it had to do with his attitude and behavior….which while rude and obnoxious were not illegal.
Let me break it down.
Man had right to be upset. Due to man’s high level of wealth and high social status felt the police officers were below him so he was rude and likely talked down to the officer. Officer abused a statute to prove a point to a guy that whose only crime was being a rich jerk that feels he is entitled to belittle and berate those not up to his level of education…..his professional status….or those not wealthy enough to live in his exclusive neighborhood. Cop let it get to him and it became personal and he abused a statute improperly to make a point. One big peeing contest.
OMG. Just a matter of time before Obama played that card. Just wait, we are only starting to see the downfall of America.
If Officer Crowley was guilty of profiling then so was Dr. Gates since he was uncompliant from the beginning when the Officer was there just to perform his job in service to Dr. Gates.
I personally think the whole thing was just so “Skip” and President Obama could present racism on the national stage again. Since “Skip” thinks he’s above the law of the land because of who he knows i.e. “you don’t know who you’re dealing with”.
If I was in the same situation and my home had been broken into before I would be thrilled that an Officer was asking me for identification when the door has obviously been broken.
If you are belligerent to the police you will be cuffed and ticketed…ask my daughter who found out the hard way, they don’t reserve that treatment for minorities.
May be Blacks and other non-whites should live else where and leave Cambridge MA, for whites only. This way such incidents will never occur.
TO ROD MIZER…THE PRESIDENT WAS BORN IN THE USA, BUSTER,NOT KENYA! MCCAIN WAS BORN IN THE PANAMA CANAL, NOT THE USA BUT A USA TERRITORY, OK? WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT, HE IS YOUR PRESIDENT THE SAME WAY STUPID GEORGE W WAS MY PRESIDENT, WHETHER I LIKED HIM OR NOT. GET USED TO IT BABY. ONE THING FOR SURE, ALL THE BIGOTS AND RACISTS ARE COMING OUT OF THEIR HOLES SO IT IS EASIER TO ID THEM NOW. THANK YOU FOR THAT!!!
FOXX2
Congrats America, we have a racist President that will do anything to divide this country.
just goto youtube and you can watch tens and tens of videos of cops over-reacting when challenged even when challenged in a civil manner see people getting tazed…faces slammed into the pavement after they already cuffed and laying face first. Cop lost his temper and professionalism….now he makes the news. His own cross to bear.
The gentleman in question is an elderly man. He was in his own home when police walked in without knocking. I can understand him asking for the officer badge number. More than likely he was astounded and confused as he was in no wrong. The man does not have to say SIR to the police, he’s older than the policeman. Sir is used as a form of respect in this culture, and Gains might have felt disrespected. It’s hard for me to understand why the elderly man would have been disruptive without being put in that frame of mine. If he did repeatedly ask for the badge number, I can see the officer might have become upset. The officer was there to protect his home and this is the respect he got for it. Taking Gains to jail went to far guys. I wish black people could turn white and white black for a year and maybe we would all understand each other better. The incident that happened was stupid, you do not have to be a black president to see that. I would not want anyone coming into my grandfathers house and taking him to jail for going into his own house without breaking the law. Society and race is getting worse as well, not better because the white race thinks racism is so yesteryear. The black race knows it’s alive and well.
The whole problem here is the man was arrested on his own front porch, and it was done after he had been identified as the lawful resident. I don’t care how beligerent he was, the officer should have vacated the property as soon as identity was verified; no apology needed. A routine response to a concerned neighbor’s report, happens all the time. As an expert in racial profiling the officer should have left when he verified a crime was not being committed. I don’t think anyone feels the police have the right to arrest them on their property, no matter how belligerent they were. If your grandfather or father(because that’s how old he is compared to most of us) was giving the police an earful for bothering him when he was obviously aggravated by a faulty door and the fact that his neighbors can’t recognize him on sight, we would expect them to chalk it up to him being an ornery old man and let him be. The police officer however used his power to arrest people as they often do to soothe his hurt pride. If you can’t deal with a few sharp words(mind you no profanity was issued) then you’re in the wrong job, go work with machines. I don’t think this was a case of racial profiling but it was as the president said, stupid.
Why dont you go back to Europe. Obama is not from Kenya –STUPID RACIST DUMMY. Why are racist people so stupid? You hate everything including education.
You left wing losers are complete idiots. Just because Gates told the officer that it was his house, the officer is supposed to just take his word for it?? And as for arresting him, it happens all the time and has nothing to do with race. I was arrested when I was 16 for mouthing off to a cop, it was 10 years aago and I don’t remember what the charge was. The left is always screaming about racism and have completely twisted the system to where it is notpolitically correct to be a white male.
Hey Kirk
eat a dick
I am not an american and I live in a country which Obama isnt particularly fond of as he wants a two state country in this part of the world. He really knows nothing about Israels historical rights here or why we are here and neither does he know that as soon as the State was declared the palestinians began to either run away or fight anyway they could. Of course there are always some good people amongst every race and nationality. Even in the days of Hitler there were some good germans. We know that. Why I write this is to prove Obama has little knowledge about a host of subjects. He wants to be remembered as the man who made world peace, equality for all i.e. Utopia. That isnt possible Mr. Obama. You start with the little things. Does he know that national health care in England has made it virtually impossible to have an operation under a year in a hospital and so most people pay privately. I know there are free clinics and very inexpensive ones in the States. I knopw someone who frequented one. The poor areas need free clinics and every doctor could give half a day to attend to the sick. This would clear up the 15 mil who have no health care. There should be vans around the cities for every woman to have a mammiogram and so forth.
Think about it Mr. President. a retired lady
Obama said the officer acted “stupidly” not that he acted in a racist manner.
As usual he was right on target
Dan why not just call your site “Ihatebrownpeople.com” and stop beating around the bush? Why hide your TRUE feelings when your prejudiced agenda is crystal clear?
What an obvious ringer in the crowd to ask the racial profiling question. Let’s get this straight-two brothers breaking into a house-STOP! Sounds like 99.9% of all cops episodes. Let’s go on-police are called to investigate and the brothers cry foul when asked what they are doing and get beligerant with the police-STOP! Sounds like 99.9% of all cops episodes. No profiling, just doing their job. Go ahead and call the rev-we will call them Larry, Mo, and Curly (Jackson,Sharpton,Run) to come and cry about the color of their skin some more. Getting old Obummer, us white folk are beginning to think that you aren’t one of us anymore.
I am so sick of you people who read exactly what you want to read into every situation.. You don’t like President Obama you have a problem with having a Black president and you just need to own up to it. Anything associated with him; his family, his friends, policies or other associations are conveniently used to further your non-sensical and racially driven hatred and all of your baseless claims. As for Skip Gates, you thin skinned cowards have no idea what it is like to be a black man or woman in this country. You have no idea how the acts of slavery,segregation, discrimination, disrespect and lynchings in this country have damaged an entire race of people and is still a very broad fabric of our daily life. Professor Gates is a brillant, soft spoken man. You condescending assholes may see him as a bigshot but htat is not his claim to fame. He was humiliated, scared and outraged and was arrested for verbalizing his outrage..which is not against the law…so yes getting arrested was a stupid act. The officer should have taken the high road, recognized that he was upset and left it alone. Barack Obama’s comments had nothing to do with the loss of post racial
sentiment..it was just common sense. And sorry you mean and hateful Sarah Palin loving neo-con, backwoods,redneck racists..he is everybody’s president. If “you” don’t like it take your miserable ass back to Europe!
It is the President who owes Crowley the apology, not the other way around. I hope the Police Department and those in office do not force Crowley to, so he can keep his job. He should stand by his decision.
Apparently, the officer in question, Sgt. Crowley, is a respected supervisor who teaches a class on cultural sensitivity and racial profiling at the police academy. One of the interviews he’s done suggests that he was an Obama voter.
I suspect he’s re-thinking that these days.
Federal case law has NOTHING to do with this situation since he wasn’t arrested by the feds or for breaking any federal laws.
Massachusetts state law is controlling here, and the statutory description of what constitutes disorder conduct…please understand that in order to be convicted of disorder conduct you do not have to have engaged in ALL of the actions listed, only ONE of them is enough to meet the legal threshold.
Therefore, based on the state statute and the officer’s police report, combined with the second police officer’s report and the two witness statements in the media along with the photo of Gates…I would say it is very obvious that Gates met the minimum threshold. That doesn’t mean the officer SHOULD have arrested him, only that he COULD.
Again, based on the officer’s report, he WAS LEAVING, but Gates followed him outside to continue his racist rant, and the officer says he asked him to calm down twice and he didn’t. I mean, what would someone expect when you act like that?
I think Obama crossed the line in his statement re the Cambridge Police. How could he say they “acted stupidly” when he had just stated he didn’t know all the details. I think the question was asked by a planted newsperson so Obama could make an accusation re this incident. The average person would have readily given the police officer the information he needed, to see if he was the real occupant of that home, and then, thanked him for being there to protect his possessions. Obama was elected president of the country, including all the people, not just his friends or a particular race. That’s what you call “STUPID”, not what the police did. What a world we have created.
IM a little confused here! 911 call says 2 black men appear to be breaking into a home… cop goes to that home… sees 2 black men breaking into that home…. cop asks for ID…. man starts yelling racist at him… um.. didnt the 911 call say .. ” 2 black men trying to break into home” Why is there even an issue of race here at all! The cop woudnt have even said anything to this man if there wasn’t a 911 call that said …. (and I quote again) “2 BLACK MEN BREAKING INTO HOME”…. ok so again why is this a race issue? and oh yeah Im a little confused… why did the President even remotely think that it was his place to comment on this incident? Is he really standing by his statement that he believes the officers acted stupidly? Does he really think making a comment about any situation he doesn’t have all the facts on makes him appear intelligent ? This man Gates is his friend… OK … but isn’t he supposed to be the President of this country? The last time I checked police departments were included.
MOST OF THESE COMMENTS FROM WHITE PEOPLE WHO DON’T KNOW A DAMN THING ABOUT WHAT WE, AS AFRICAN AMERICANS, GO THROUGH DAILY IN THIS COUNTRY FROM RACISTS & BIGOTS.
Given that you think it perfectly acceptable to scream that any white person you encounter is “racist”, it’s no surprise that you’re treated differently.
The reason blacks support such behavior is simple; the black community and black leadership shames anyone who does not obey them and hate white people. Case in point:
“The pair also testified that Kilpatrick injected race into the confrontation.
“It happened so fast,” Kinney testified in quiet tones. “I was like, I couldn’t believe this was happening.”
Referring to Kilpatrick as “Mr. Mayor,” she said Kilpatrick shouted: “You, a black woman, being with a man last name White, you should be ashamed of yourself and … why are you a part of this?”
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080726/NEWS01/807260347
That is racism. But not to Barack Obama, who endorsed and supported Kwame Kilpatrick, nor to the Congressional Black Caucus, whose leader endorsed and supported Kwame Kilpatrick, nor to the black community, whose leaders supported and endorsed Kwame Kilpatrick.
To Mike2cents.
I appreciate your ability to admit you are treated better as a white male than perhaps a black male would be treated. I find many white people reluctant to admit that reality or to even admit they are racist.
Of course you would not have flown off the handle if the police would have asked you for identification, you have probably not experienced much police discrimination in your life and your ethnicity has exempted you from developing a chip against the police I take it. Try being brown in LA, your tune would be different. Oh, and in LA, you would not be treated better depending on where you are just because your are white.
Your views about the professor telling white kids how racist they are is mere small minded ignorance. Historically white people have been extremely racist worldwide and in my opinion the majority continue to be to some degree. This is not to say non-whites are not racist, that simply is not true. Don’t take it as racism because someone talks about white people opressing blacks in America; it is the truth. It does not mean all white people are responsible, any intelligent person will recognize that. I am sure many of the professors students recognize that.
Good for the professor for not taking his arrest well and good for President Obama for saying the police acted stupidly. I agree with both!!
All these opinions are Wack….First of all yeah racial profiling happens everyday i know im black lol so why are people surprised…second why did it even have to go that far. Once the officers found out what was going on they should of had turned around and left. And last…how do the president end up being racist because he basically said the cops took a small thing and made it big wich was stupid…even if the guy got mad he is a old Harvard Prof with a cane and a polo shirt and dockers with how ever many cops at his home for a simple mistake !!!! come on crack attics start being proactive instead of being a common hater and situations like this will become less.
Of course a higher ratio blacks and latinos are going to be stopped or arrested than whites because blacks and latinos commit a higher ratio of crimes than whites. I think the math is pretty obvious.
I am going to make some numbers up as an example of the math.
Let’s say one out of every 10 blacks, one out of every 20 latinos and one out of every 100 whites gets stopped by the police.
Blacks: .1
Latinos: .05
Whites: .01
Just looking at the raw numbers you’d think yes that blacks and latinos are being unfairly profiled. This number needs to be adjusted for what percent of actual crimes are committed by blacks, latinos and whites.
If blacks, whites and latinos were all committing crimes at the same ratio of crimes per person and we had the above numbers I listed, then yes I would agree that there was a racial profiling problem. But as it is, that is not the case. Studies have shown that blacks are profiled (pulled over, questioned about something) at a much lower ratio per person than the ratio of crimes committed per person.
This would actually lead one to believe that they are not being profiled against any more than one would statistically believe to be the case. In fact, it is slightly the other way around. Whites are profiled at a higher ratio than their crime ratio.
Black scholars are tricky with the way they use their numbers. Please do your math.
All my life I have tried not to be racist. That is rapidly coming to an end. I am sick to death with all the race baiting from even this idiot in the white house. Gates played this just like the muslim emams (sp) on America west flight. Whitey cant touch me cause Im black or muslim.
First of all the President said the officer acted “stupidly”, he didn’t say that it did or didn’t have anything to do with anything racial. So how with that effect his “post racial them” if he did not imply race. Secondly I feel the office did act stupidly, not of anything dealing with race but when he saw that the address on the ID confirmed Gates lived there he should have apologized and furthermore when asked his name and badge number, he should have given it. Period end of paragraph.
What’s funny about this whole thing is that the people who have apologized on behalf of the town are black. Ridiculous. Where is Gerry Cooney again-the last great white hope.
It is mind boggling to read some of these comments deriding Obama for his statement last night. Can you imagine arresting Larry Summers under the same scenario? Can you imagine arresting a top caucasian scholar under the same circumstances, after he identified himself in his own house? Regardless of whether Mr Gates lost his composure or not, and made accusatory remarks about the officer being racist – Common sense should have prevailed here. Especially after discerning that the man in question was handicapped! Clearly, nothing has changed in this country:racism remains an American pasttime like baseball. What is appalling is the fact that folks on this forum are quick to berate the president of this country in support of a police sergeant who clearly was a dimwit!
“Of course you would not have flown off the handle if the police would have asked you for identification, you have probably not experienced much police discrimination in your life and your ethnicity has exempted you from developing a chip against the police I take it.”
Funny, I also know black people who don’t have a chip against the police.
Do you hate black police officers and consider them traitors?
libs suk , no matter what color they might be
Since when has the w.h. butted in to these situations? This is clearly none of ‘o’s biz or is it? The rules clearly state that if an elitist is confronted for any reason then a higher ranking elitist must defend him at all costs.Impunity for any and all if you are in the club. Certainly if one Harvard-ite can’t save a brother who can he save? In the meanwhile guess who is trying to take away your rights?
“Can you imagine arresting Larry Summers under the same scenario? Can you imagine arresting a top caucasian scholar under the same circumstances, after he identified himself in his own house?”
If they lost their head and started screaming “racist” at the top of their lungs at said officer, following them out on the lawn and so forth, certainly I can, and they should be.
What’s so hard about that?
As long as everyone in this country continues to refer to themselves by their color nobody will ever truly be equal. We are Americans, be proud of it, if you are not and want to be different, go somewhere else. We are a melting pot…period. Obama should not have jumped into the fray of this, doing so shows he does not favor true equality. The fact that someone is in the face of a police officer IS reason enough to warrant an arrest for disorderly. In domestic situations it can be considered a domestic assault in some states. So why is this officer considered “acting stupidly” for doing his job??? Its racism no matter which way it goes.
police are racists and all people off different color nows that.what the police did was wrong
we all know ob is a rasist, it was just a matter of time before we saw his true colors, a very unhappy dem.
That remark made last night was irreversible I was a Democrat but Obama just changed my mind…Obama is a racist PIG just like Sharpton. How did we go from healthcare to racial profiling anyway? I’m sure if the cop was black and the bad guy was white nothing would have been said Huh? Thats called reverse discrimination and America does not deserve that from a so called leader.
Obama you blew it!
Boy you white people or whoever the hell you are on here are something else. You think telling the police they were overzealous in this instance would set back race relations more than it has been for the last 8 years or during the elder bush or Reagan admin..??? You people that bash obama..LOL I cannot wait until 2012 you will eat your words I promise you. Then you dumb asses can spout about you hate obama again for the next 4 years after that GO OBAMA 2016…hehehe
You know your reading some the Right Wing(nuts) Repuli-lemmings trash when you here that- quote: “Bush was a Genious in comparison” tho obviously you Einstiens are in one serious case of deluded denial about he last 8 yrs
- tho what can U expect form ‘tea bagers’ who cry about deficeits under Obama – when ‘DUH-W’ DOUBLED the deficeit in 8 yrs when should had years of surplus (tho hey the Rich did get richer – now THATS progress)
and before you start blaming the “liburulz” TRY to remember who’s – “Steal from the Poor to Feed the Rich” party was in control of everything ….
Why is it that Obama lends credence to the fact that if you are a white male you are considered a racist ? This sort of ignorant comment just goes to prove that the more we hear about this stuff, the further we are from ever achieving racial equality. If Gates had just recognized that the Officer was doing his job, he would have seen the justifications for the officer’s actions.
i thoroughly enjoyed reading everyone’s comments. he’s not my president either- cannot wait for 2012.
Ummm since the election Americans have acted extremely stupid. The main stream media has blown every remark out of proportion to keep the public distracted with all the garbage retarded thinking thats going on. Everyone wants to label Obama racially biased. Since the election started it was about the black vote, the latino vote, the middle class white vote etc. What about the American vote? We are the only culture to be so stupid that we focus on the minute details such as false descrimination accusations etc…
Lets focus on the housing market, the corporate bail outs, the constant borrowing from China, how texas is sitting on oil while gas prices are still not stable. Lets focus on the endless war on nothing. Terrorism what a joke… Its a war on a emotion its like having a war on love. Terror is false its an illusion built to justify anything and everything for nothing. Lets focus on how education cost so much you could purchase a small city block with student loans for the average BA degree receiving student. Lets talk about how Micheal Vicks situation was more important than the thousands of people layed off daily while companies like World Comm and AIG got millions of government aide. Lets focus on the fact that our college students are being taught the same math and science as grade school asian students. Lets focus on how the books in a urban school are outdated but metal detectors are brand new. Lets focus on how churches are raping there members pockets as they pay for pray with no tax liabilities. Lets focus on how Paris Hiltons dog is more important then a soldeirs death. Lets focus on how we imprison people for life sentences for self afflicting crimes. Lets focus on how our government allows drugs into the country and arrest the small guy they hire to sale them. Lets focus on how we will house Charles Manson in a cushy cell and pay for it out of tax payer money but wont house a poor single parent and there child for more then a week in a crowded shelter. Lets focus on how Iraqi’s have new schools and we are losing teachers. Lets focus on how Bush FUCKED UP and how Obama has more stuff to worry about then his freind being profiled.
LETS FOCUS ON HOW GODDAMN BRAINWASHED AND IGNORANT OUR COUNTRY IS. SHEEPLE not people. Many people think that Rush Limbaugh and all these political spokes people are so correct when really they get payed to distract you while they also get paid behind the scenes to work with the person they tell you to hate.
RACISM IS SUCH A SMALL ISSUE ITS HARDLY WORTH DISCUSSING AND I AM A BLACK SOLIDER IN THE AIRFORCE.
At this point I am with Rev. Wright not God bless America GODDAMN AMERICA for being so stupid we watch our own country fall apart but we are worried about a damn overpaid activist and his bad experiance. He should thank God his neighbor cared enough to watch his home, he should be glad the policemen cared enough to fully verify his claim. It could have been a black, white, red, green person with a false idea. The cop followed procedure. Me as a black man I know cops can be racist and biased but its not like we help the situation with our actions as a people. OBAMA FOLLOW YOUR OWN WORDS BROTHER REMEMBER THE NEW ERA OF RESPONSIBILITY. Lets be responsible. No more distractions lets get the facts.
It perplexes me that Whites vehemently deny and refuse to believe that racism & “White Privilege” exists. Especially considering that they are on the beneficiary end of the priviledge.
Now, I’m not one carry a chip on my shoulder, and I certainly believe in the Cosby notions of pulling oneself up by his boot straps, however, I must insist that (1) racism is real and (2) American Law enformcement treats blacks differently than whites.
I’m not saying that the officer was a racist, but I am saying that had Gates been a White Harvard professor, we would not likely be having this discussion, because the officer would have probably treated Gates more respectfully and not jump to the conclusion that he was a criminal; and he probably would’ve been more understanding of his frustration. In the same respect, if Gates were White, he probably wouldn’t have jumped to the conclusion of racism.
At any rate, our country and law enforcement have a long and undeniable history of abusing blacks, its amazing that White America is always so upset when Blacks call it to their attention.
Of course the police report, confirms the officer’s version of the story; He wrote the damn report. And of course witnesses on the seen coraborated the story, they’re members of the same community that called the police in the first place. The man clearly proved that he lived there and he claims that he did indeed provide identification. How can White Americans so incessantly claim that these things exist only in the Minds of African Americans? I’ve been on the receiving end of that sort of discrimination. Police officers are often condescending,belligerent and down-right dehuminizing. You haven’t been in the same positions. Contrary to popular belief, we are not all gangbanging, uneducated, baby mama’s & daddy’s with our hands out looking for a free ride. When you take class & ecomomics out of this issue, all you really have left to blame is race.
Stop complaining and enjoy it, because you know you wouldn’t like to trade places.
I’ve been arrested twice for nothing by Baltimore City cops and no one has done anything, not even Internal
Affairs. Guess i have to be a renowned black scholar.
So this is the true america one comment,and people go insane,Which of you will supply the rope to hang that arrogant leader of the free world.Oh no one needs too .The PRESS has already done it agaIN.
North Dallas Thirty Aren’t you late for your klan meeting? You and people like you would better serve you agenda if you just came out of the closet! This is the internet for gods sake! No one is going to reach through the computer and punch you! Save yourself some time and just say “I hate niggers n all them mud colered people!” Show some integrity please.
Has everyone lost there mind’s? First off least we all forget this president had a Mother & she was 100% Caucasian, his Father was black, so how can any one figure he belong’s exclusively to the Black culture.
Bottom line he is not black ,he is not white, he is Human & appear’s to be a fine father,Son,& Brother, I also believe he will be a great president one day, if given half the chance the idiot’s who put George Bush into office have.
That President got you into another unneccessary Viet nam all over again & has bankrupted the US in the process, & all some can say is he’s black & a Racist? Please how lame of an excuse can you use for down & out anger that he won, while being to ignorant to see we all won this time.
I’m very offended by the presidents statement good job obama let’s keep raceism alive you yes you did more harm than you will ever know. you will never get my vote for anything,
linjaynes@earthlink.net Very well said! I see we have an IQ in the house!
When Obama is not using the telepromt , we hear what he really thinks. How can so many intelligent people in government be so STUPID?
The role of law enforcement is to help US citizens..serve and protect..not to give people a hard time in their own home. Help citizens..help citizens and help citizens. When is arresting someone at their own home helping society in anyway. The cop needs to calm the over reacting citizen down if they over react..be the bigger person..just like a manager calms down an angry customer. The motto of the law is to serve and to protect. The officer definately abused his power. No cop is above the law.
Once the cops realized Gates was in his OWN house they should have left. I’m sure the pictures of him and his family would be hard to overlook. The sad thing is all people posting on this article have such skewed opinions on real world issues and then wonder why this country continues to have race problems. Simply foolish.
After reading so many of these posts it clear to me now! Obama is the cause for racism in America! Thanks Obama, racism had all but disappeared until you made that statement last night!
Red,
Mr. Gates showed him a valid Harvard I.D. AND his Mass. drivers license that included his address and his picture. If you were arrested for a verbal exchange with a cop that did not include any threats or you weren’t otherwise causing a disturbance (like for instance, if this incident happened at party that was being broken up by the cops), then the officer overstepped his authority.
Wow, America is in a lot of pain. Just read the nonsense that has been written. For instance, the poor soul who wrote “why don’t you just go back to kenya, your not my president…” is hurting real bad. Far too many of our white brothers and sisters hurt from black achievement. I believe the hurt comes from the reality of their own sense of superiority is dying. My white brothers and sisters it is now time for you to take the next step. Realise and understand that most of you have what you have because of white privledge (i.e. white affirmative action, LOL) and not hard work or through competetion. The good Brother Barak Hussan Obama is the President of the United States of America” let us all ralley around him, just as we did with President Bush(man)
First thing Obama said was that he might be bias because Gates is his friend, so do you want a President to be the type of person who doesn’t have his friends backs.
It’s sad & unbelieveable, that the President of the United States, would say such a thing. He may need a “stupid” cop one day, sure hope they come.
I do so love how all the black commenters here screaming about white racism demonstrate their hypocrisy so nicely when confronted with examples like this:
“The pair also testified that Kilpatrick injected race into the confrontation.
“It happened so fast,” Kinney testified in quiet tones. “I was like, I couldn’t believe this was happening.”
Referring to Kilpatrick as “Mr. Mayor,” she said Kilpatrick shouted: “You, a black woman, being with a man last name White, you should be ashamed of yourself and … why are you a part of this?”
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080726/NEWS01/807260347
That is racism. But not to Barack Obama, who endorsed and supported Kwame Kilpatrick, nor to the Congressional Black Caucus, whose leader endorsed and supported Kwame Kilpatrick, nor to the black community, whose leaders supported and endorsed Kwame Kilpatrick.
And again, since liberals and blacks say all cops are racists who abuse their power, does that mean they think all black police officers are Uncle Toms and traitors to their community?
First thing Obama said was that he might be bias because Gates is his friend, so do you want a President to be the type of person who doesn’t have his friends backs.
If his friends behave like idiots? No, I don’t.
I want a President who puts obeying the law first and doesn’t cut his friends special deals. Obama is clearly not that.
Relevance?
The fact remains if Gates had been a white man he would NOT have been arrested. I know it and ALL of you know. The white professor would have bought two tickets to the policeman’s ball and everyone would have walked away happy.
First of all, I believe Obama did the right thing by answering a very legitimate question. All you critics keep saying that he should have kept quiet until he got all the facts. Excuse you? He’s the president of the United States for crying out loud. I’m sure one of his aids gave him a summary of what happened. And even if by some miracle they hadn’t, he still had the right to comment on an incident that is very widespread and affects all Americans. And he is totally right about those cops. They acted honorably up until the point when they received proof of Mr. Gates residency, they did not leave. I don’t care how belligerent a person gets with you, if they do not attack you they should not be arrested. The officers should have just left, but no they couldn’t do that. And of course Mr. Gates was angry. Here he is showing that he lives at the residence, and that police officer still wouldn’t leave? Anyone with half a brain would be pretty upset about that. Now the people who hate Obama, who were waiting for anything to try to use against him, are going crazy.
And to all of you crazy, ignorant people on here like Jd, and Mike G, you keep saying how Obama is using the race card. It is a simple fact that here in America, minorities are treated like second class citizens some times. No the whole country is not racist, but there are still people in this country are racist or at the very least still hold prejudices against other people. Now you can sit there and think it’s not true, but it is. And that just does not only include whites against blacks. It’s true for each and every one of the ethnic groups in America. That officer was way out of line. I don’t care how impolite or verbally abusive Gates was to him, as far as I know, it is not against the law. If the officer didn’t like it he should have got into his car and left. Instead he arrests the guy, wasting time and energy he could have used to go after a real criminal, and now causing this huge circus. I hope Mr. Gates sues the police department and wins.
Give Obama a break, will you?
I’m familiar w/ North Dallas… a lot of PWT & New Money. No wonder you feel so strongly!
LOL.
As a Native American, and unabashed liberal, I seek out conservative blogs like this Riehl numbskull, so I can read the posts and responses. “Huge gaffe?” He was asked a question about this and in an hour of talk about health care, spent three minutes stepping on his own headlines about healthcare. So what. As a brown person, the first question cops ask me is; “Do you speak English?” What I hear is, “you are going to (go to jail, get a ticket, get mightily hassled, are at fault).” The cops should have walked out, no big deal, no headlines. But they just can’t when they see a black man, brown man. They want desperately to be loved by people of color while they pound and beat us into submission. Poor white folks know the same story as people of color. I would be willing to bet the “whiteys” on this board posting are lower to middle class in income or unemployed blaming the bad times on A)immigrants (legal and undocumented), B. Obama; or C. the lack of slave labor and free stolen land from Indians for their plight. It amazes me to see white folks snivel and complain when people of color complain about the boot on our necks.
Just take a minute and review all of the anger and hate that is on this one blog right now…race hate, class hate, political hate.
This is the attitude that Obama and the liberal Democrats have fostered and nurtured: hate white people who don’t tow the line, hate rich people who don’t apologize for it, hate Christians, hate conservatives, hate EVERYONE who doesn’t think Just Like We Do.
This is what comes of identity politics, it doesn’t make everyone equal it pits everyone against each other, it ENCOURAGES the us vs. them attitude.
The difference between the crazy conservative and the crazy liberal is that the crazy conservative will pretty much leave you alone if you leave him alone, the crazy liberal wants to burn you at the stake unless you agree with him…and that my friends, is a big difference.
You would think that an old professor would be a little less apt to go off like a champagne cork. I’m an Irish-American of the white species and, if I were breaking into my own house, and the police arrived, even with guns drawn, I would be appreciative to say the least. I would put my hands in the air and drop to my knees and smile. After which, I would politely indicate that in my wallet you will find identification to the fact that I am the owner of said dwelling. Then, I would invite them in for the best pot of coffee I could make and what ever snacks I had on hand because, their being there is a testimony to their bravery and concern for the law abiding citizen. Who,I ask, was under more duress in this situation, The police going to a call that has a better than 50% chance of being violent and perilous, or the Highly educated professor who is having a little trouble getting into his home after a long, sweaty, dangerous, toxic job like, well, like teaching college kids something they don’t know?
anon,
“Federal case law has NOTHING to do with this situation since he wasn’t arrested by the feds or for breaking any federal laws.”
True except federal law supercedes state law. The case, Duran v. City of Douglas, creates a standard that state law must comply with. The end result is police cannot arrest people because they were offended or pissed off. There must be either a verbal threat, a percieved threat or an issue of public safety. None of these seem to apply here.
Oficer Crowley is owed a HUGE apology from Gates. Gates, because of his status, feels he is above the law. As far as Obama’s comment, I am ashamed that the president of my country would act so “stupidly”.
Please understand that many of the things you are posting about Obama are simply proving that we still have a serious problem with racism in this country. Speaking as a black man I wish Mr. Gates had not cried racism and I also wish the president had not commented on it. However, the main point here is, the officer is the professional and trained public servant. Seems to me he should have known how to use restraint to avoid an embarrassing incident with an elderly man in his own home.
“One troubling provision of the House bill compels seniors to submit to a counseling session every five years (and more often if they become sick or go into a nursing home) about alternatives for end-of-life care (House bill, p. 425-430). The sessions cover highly sensitive matters such as whether to receive antibiotics and ‘the use of artificially administered nutrition and hydration.’ This mandate invites abuse, and seniors could easily be pushed to refuse care.” In other words, healthcare professionals are procedurely mandated to coerce the elderly to commit EUTHANASIA.
Have we all forgotten about the government forcing Terri Schiavo to starve to death? Did we forget that American citizens were overwhelmingly against it and yet we the people were powerless to stop the courts?
The government has no conscience. It’s only conscience is making money. If it’ll cost too much to support a senior citizen or an unborn baby that will be born into an underprivileged class of society, then the FINAL SOLUTION IS TO MURDER IT.
See: http://www.blackgenocide.org/black.html
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No, Gates was arrested for violating the Massachusetts disorderly conduct statute, it is extremely straightforward and has nothing to do with the feds since he was not arrested for offending the cop, he was arrested for disorderly conduct and his police report includes the required points needed to meet the minimum threshold for arrest.
There does not need to be a verbal threat, perceived threat or issue of public safety, there only needs to be actions as described in the Massachusetts statute. You are not understanding how federal and state law work separately and in concert.
I think everyone was waiting to see what the President would say when it came to a racial issue. I don’t know why the reporter asked the president this question, it had nothing to do with the economy nor health care reform. They even asked him about Michael Jackson a few weeks ago. I wonder if they would have asked President Bush these same two questions! Remember he is African American ,he has experienced things where the average caucasian has no clue! Stop asking him things that are off the cuff…he is not perfect. We are all entitled to our opinions, stop asking him things if you are going to scrutinize it! Let him do the job of the President of the United States and leave all the lame questions for Sarah P. in 2012!!!
I cannot believe they are dragging a 16 year-old case of CPR into this as an argument AGAINST Crowley. 16 years, which means they didn’t have an defibrillator around, which means the odds of success in administering CPR is infinitesimal. The fact that he tried–and have you ever tried CPR? it’s exhausting, backbreaking, and emotionally overwhelming work–should be enough for people.
The fact is, if a white professor had broken into his own house then flipped at the arresting officers (regardless of their races), we wouldn’t be hearing about it. He’d have done his stint for disorderly, and the news would have been none the wiser.
And anyone who truly believed that having Obama as president was going to fix race-relations,…well, I saw this coming a mile away.
The police department only dropped the charges because they found out Gates was a friend of Dear Leader Barry, and were aware the full force of the state run media would be brought to bear against them. The department has nothing to hide, they just wanted to bury the story so they could get back to work. Besides they probably know its dangerous to get on Dear Leader Barry’s bad side, since they could have their funding slashed by the feds and even have the chief of police sent packing like the former CEO of Government Motors. Dear Leader Barry wants to own the whole country and have every American serve him. We have to cut personal spending whereas Dear Leader Barry spends money like there’s no tomorrow. If he gets his way there truly wont be. If Obama fails America succeeds.
It is such a surprise to me that anyone is surprised that obama behaves like a racist. He was so easy to see through during the presidential campaign. Why did so many turn their heads from the hate filled church (?) he attended for 20 years. Let’s not forget what a white hater his wife is (ever read her college thesis). One last question~~~What is the easiest way to bring the strongest country on the planet to it’s knees? Answer~~you starve tht country almost to death (rape it of it’s finances and force it into internal survival mode). Look at what’s happening. People ask why obama wants to rush things through real fast for votes. I believe he does that so voting members will not have near the time needed to read and understand presented bills. Democrats were just signing anything he stuck in their faces and they outnumber republicans. Generations of Americans will be paying for what the man from Kenya did. I want to see a birth certificate that proves obama was born in the US. I don’t believe he can do that, therefore is not a legal president of the US. obama is making the US a global laughing stock.
The cop was stupid and out of line. And whoever this dumb “witness” is didn’t see what happened inside the house because they weren’t in the house. After Gates proved to the officer (while still inside the home) that he was the home owner…the cop should’ve left. End of story.
There too many white cops who are quick to arrest and draw their guns on black men as oppose to trying to diffuse a situation if there is one. This shit would not have happened to a white Harvard Professor And you know it.
All the fucking racist shit whites have done to us as blacks and you stupid ass crackas wanna talk shit about Obama. FUCK YOU CRACKAS!
BLACK POWER BITCH!
I’m a blonde haired, blue eyed woman who lives in a “nice” neighborhood. I accidently set off my silent alarm in my home. I answered the door to two police officers HOLDING their guns. I kind of laughed it off because of my stupid mistake. These officers were not amused and told me to get my identification. They followed me into the house very carefully with guns drawn while I retrieved my purse. These officers didn’t know I was the owner for sure and they didn’t know who was around the corner. They were doing their job and I respected the manner in which they conducted themselves. We forget that every time they enter a home, their lives are on the line. I can’t imagine what would hava happened if I started screaming and refusing to show my ID. There is not a doubt in my mind I would have gotten a free ride to the station. None of us know for sure whether race was a factor with the Gates incident. That said, it is completely unacceptable that our President labeled the police department as “stupid” without knowing the entirety of the facts. Our President should know better! Bad form.
THE POLICE HAD NO RIGHT TO GO INTO SOMEONEONES(BLACK OR WHITE,RED,OR WHATEVER COLOR) HOME WHO DID NOTHING AND ARREST THEM..A MANS HOME SHOULD NEVER BE INVADED..THEY HAD NO WARRENTS AND HAD NO RIGHT TO BE ON HIS PROPERTY..AS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN WE SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO OUR PROPERTY AND SHOULD NOT HAVE TO BE POLITE TO ANYONE WE DONT WANT TO BE POLITE TO.. I AM SURE THAT THIS MAN,A WELL EDUCATED MAN WOULD NOT HAVE GOTTEN MAD IF HE WAS’NT PROVOKED..JUST BECAUSE THE LAST PRESIDENT TRIED TO TAKE ALL OUR FREEDOMS TO PRIVACY AWAY ..DOES NOT MEAN THAT IS THE WAY IT SHOULD BE..HURRAY FOR OBAMA!! AND AS FOR THE HEALTH CARE PROGRAM MAYBE YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO THE SPEACH HE GAVE TODAY AND YOU WILL SEE THAT THIS MAN IS JUST TRYING TO HELP ALL TO HAVE HEALTH CARE AND IS VERY WELL READ ON THIS SUBJECT..WHAT OTHER PRESIDENT IN HISTORY HAS TRIED TO GET HEALTH CARE FOR US.. IT SOUNDS LIKE A BUNCH OF YOU ARE VERY STUPID AND ARE LISTENING TO THE RICH WHO ARE SO SCARED OF LOSING A PENNY OF THEIR MONEY AND HAVING TO ACTUALLY PAY TAXES LIKE THE REST OF US….
It sure does look like there were a lot of white people who witnessed this arrest…all of them responding in kind to this blog. Not one of you knows the real story. You criticize the President for commenting without all of the facts, and now you do the same thing he did, making you no better or worse. We all have opinions, and they are simply that. The only people who know the facts in this case are the people who were present at the scene. While many of the commentators condemn the President for his comments and accuse him of being racist, these people only show proof of their own racial bias through their commentary. Funny how this works. It’s OK for the angry white people to rail about the black President, but boy howdy, the black President better not rail about the angry white people.
extremely important issue considering all of the not so important things taking place in our nation and the world today. it seems that most of you folks are scholars at the very least possibly bordering on genius…stop letting others distract you with meaningless garbage and start thinking for yourself. best wishes, j.e.s.
Anon,
“There does not need to be a verbal threat, perceived threat or issue of public safety, there only needs to be actions as described in the Massachusetts statute. You are not understanding how federal and state law work separately and in concert.”
No, you don’t understand the law. The law is written by the state but interpreted by the courts. The courts have consistently recognized the standard laid in the Duran case. The DA dropped the charges within 24 hours. Not nearly enough time to do any real investigative work. The obvious reason is the charges do not meet the recognized standard for disorderly conduct in Mass.
It’s stupid arested the inocent man! What do we have to talk about it….?policeman taget the minonity .that’s normal happenning every day in this country. hiihi
Obama and every other black man in this country a racist? Noooo. Please say it ain’t so.
Where do you think racism in this country comes from these days? Look no further than Jesse, Al and Louis and Jeramiah. I owe no black man or women, hell, include Chinese, Mexicans and all otheres not A DAMN THING! Maybe if the Actual racist started looking at themselves first, they would see where the problem begins and ends. I was willing to give Obama the benefit of the doubt even though I didn’t vote for him, but he’s just another racist scumbag like all the rest ruining this country like they ruin there families. Now theres racism if you want it.
This man, Obama, talks “stupidly”…and appearantly his telepromter failed him again in this instance– As did his discernment, for not knowing all the facts,and not supporting LAW ENFORCEMENT. He simply responded like many other UNeducated minorities, when they are caught by the law.
Not really knowing all the facts myself, like the president claim. I can’t speak intelligently about the situation concerning Prof. Gates. I can only speak from my personal experience involving police. But I refrain from adding to some of the venom that is written on this page. Attitudes toward minorities’ interaction with police are strong depending on your skin color. This incident proves to this day, that America needs honest and open dialogue about race relations.
president Obama should not have ever gotten involve in this situation.He needs to pay more attention to thos people without job and cannot get unemployment benefits because of certain states like florida will not pay unemployment if you had to leave your job because of stress or other issues.Other state will pay after 3 months even if you leave on your on behalf.
yall voted him in now we have to live with it.
and its just beginning.
being ex military ill follow his orders as he is our commander in chief but it dont mean I gotta like it.
White people are the majority and you all look at everything through a racial lens. So why cant everyone else.
What upset me is how people let little things bother them and here we are trying toget medical care for everyone and noone seem to speak out againt that. Lets refoces on things that makes adifferent in our lives all it take is for one person to stire-up mess and we are set back for years.
OBAMA ALAS BARRY SOETORO IS NOTHING BUT A BIG RACIST PILE OF DOG S%^T. HIS TRUE SELF CAME OUT ON THIS. I HAVE BEEN SAYING ALL ALONG HE WAS A NO BODY FROM NO WHERE THAT STUPID PEOPLE VOTEDFOR HIM. I HAVE NEVER MET A SMART LIBERAL ANY WAY SO THAT DOES NOT SUPIRSE ME ANYWAY. THEYGOT WHAT THEY VOTED FOR NOTHING. THERE IS SOMETHING YOU PEOPLE FORGET ABOUT. WHO HAS BEEN IN CHARGE SINCE 1996? LIBERALS THATS WHO. THEY DID NOT NEED ONE REP. VOTE TO PASS ANYTHING. THEY PASSED THE TWO SO CALL SPENDING BILLS CALL THEM WHAT YOU MAY. THEY WERE SPENDING BILLS THEY DID NOTHING TO PUT PEOPLE TO WORK. COMMIE OBAMA NOW OWNS THE BANKS, INS COS., AUTO. INS, UNIONS, HE WILL OWN THE HEALTH CARE BECAUSE THE UNIONS WANT IT. THAT IS THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN TO AMERICA. WHY DOES HE WANT TO OWN HEALTH CARE THAT IS WHAT THE UNIONS WANT I WAS IN THE UNION FOR OVER 30 YEARS AND I HATED EVERY MIN OF IT. THE ONLY THING LEFT BIGGER LEFT FOR HIM TO CONTROL IS THE OIL INC. HE IS TRYING TO SET IT UP WITH HIS BUDDY’S TO THE SOUTH. CUBA, VASL. CULBA. MEX. BUT YOU LIBERALS STICK BY THIS JACKASS
Sounds like a bunch of cry babys. I believe the cops story. I also believe that President Obama made a mistake. He doesn’t hate white or jewish people. He just believed his friends story.
If you heard the entire statement the President made, it was not a racist statement. Anyone who is in their own home and a police comes in on a suspicion of burglary and is given the appropriate documentation that it is there own home has NO reason to arrest that person. Especially if they are elderly and you becoming agitated. The man was IN HIS OWN HOUSE1 YOUR HOME IS YOUR SANCTUARY! See if you all would be as cool if that happened to you!
Bottom line people become police officer for 1 reason. POWER. This is the truth in 99% of the cases. Most of them were weakling little geeks who were picked on and bullied there whole lives. So naturally they want to be the one with the power now. This is a undisputable fact. So it should be no suprise when they overstep their bounds, as they do more often then not. It is a dirty shame that these people do not have intense pyscological evaluations. Ther are a whole lot of the wrong people doing this job for the wrong reasons.
No, I do understand the law, you do not understand the law because if your interpretation of the law were correct then the Massaschusetts statute outlining disorderly conduct would itself be unconstitutional becuase it allows for a much broader list of actions that constitute disorderly conduct.
The case you refer to is specific to freedom of speech when harrassing a police officer and the ruling was that you cannot be arrested for that in the ABSENCE of any kind of public safety, issue, etc. etc.
But this is not what Gates was arrested for, he was arrested for tumultuous behavior in public according to the Mass statute on disorderly conduct and the arrest report conforms to the statute.
Gates would be free to argue that he was in fact arrested for harrassing the cop and make an argument for dismissal based on the Duran case, but the Duran ruling ITSELF does not obviate the Massachusetts law on disorderly conduct or automatically make Gates arrest illegal.
I’m pretty sure the charges were dropped because Gates is a personal friend of a) the cambridge mayor, b) the Massachusetts governor and c) the U.S. President.
Again, I am not arguing that the arrest would stand up in court, in all probability it would be dismissed by a judge or it certainly could be dismissed by a judge or jury, I am arguing that according to the police report that the arrest falls within the legal description in Massachusetts of disorderly conduct and the Duran case does not change that.
Do you pople know why the police stop more black’s and mexico’s than white’s? They break more lows. If they stop breaking the law they would stop getting in trouble. If this jerk would not have broken in his own house the police would not have been called. He would not have been giveing the police office a hard time. The police would have been out doing their job somewhere else. STOP BREAKING THE LAW LIBERAL JACKASS
I told you! he’s a commie fascist dictator! he’s a muslim terrorist! He’s into racialism! He’s not even umerican! and he was the editor of the Harvard law journal! so he’s stupider than bush! He’s a black negro! he’s not MY president! I hate black negroes! Obama attacks private citizens! He’s a racist because of his membership in the black caucus! He attended hitler’s church!
I’m just sayin’
from your friendly neighborhood right wing nut job (ignorant cowardly sheep)
This is the 21st century, where is the cellphone video or dash cam recording?
Look on the bright-side, this may cause him to loose support for his “healthcare refore”, which he know’s nothing about. Thus saving all of us from higher taxes and more waste.
I would like to know why a highly educated person uses abusive language towards another human being. No matter what the circumstances we should expect our highly educated men and women to set an ethical example, even under adverse situations. On occasion, I have been locked out of my own home, seeking to find a window or door unlocked to re-enter. One time I took a pipe wrench to the front door lock and twisted it out of the door to gain entery. It would not have bothered me if the Police would have been called and I was question about the situation.
Well he finally showed his true colours. (No pun intended) Obama has sure put his footprint down in the quicksand & as sure as God made little apples this once great country of ours is going down the tube faster than I ever thought posssible. Obama has alienated the military, the Republicans & Democrats alike (the ones with common sense, (discounting Nancy Pelosi)the law enforcement officers throughout America including the FBI & CIA which he is slowly dismantling, & the vast majority of caucasians throughout the civilized world.Don’t forget the medical profession, he destroyed any & all credibility when he stated that Doctors are motivated by money & not their patients needs.Please check out an old movie starring Charlton Heston called “SOYLENT GREEN”, you will see America’s future.
Shame on you MR. Obama for commenting without the facts.
If the great scholar had just told the Sgt. who he was and what
he was doing nothing would have happened. All he had to do was
to identify himself but noooooo he had to take the oppunitity to make
it racial.
Don’t waste your time, Anon. The liberals with which we’re dealing are the ones like Barack Obama, Chance, and NYNick who believe this:
“Bottom line people become police officer for 1 reason. POWER. This is the truth in 99% of the cases. Most of them were weakling little geeks who were picked on and bullied there whole lives. So naturally they want to be the one with the power now. This is a undisputable fact.”
They’re going to ignore whatever law, whatever logic, whatever reason they need to protect their racist Obama and preserve their believe that the police are all evil racist morons.
The police unions have finally realized that the Obama Party hates them and considers them insane lunatics. Things will be getting far more interesting.
Obviously, you’re biased from the beginning with the “Haavard” slight. What? Go to a community college, or barely made it past 11th grade? And the liberal assumption doesn’t help either. So from the beginning, you’re one-sided. And it doesn’t take a GED to figure out which one.
The facts are the police were erroneously called to a home by a “concerned” white female who saw two black men with backpacks trying to enter a home in her neighborhood. Who would have guessed she had black neighbors? Obviously, she didn’t? Apparently, Gates works and she doesn’t, which would explain why she was home at the time, when he was returning from a trip to China in the middle of the day. Did the commotion draw her from her soaps or her vibrator?
The bottom line is despite the false alarm, the person at the home when the officers arrived proved they lived there. Nosey neighbor. False alarm.
The question is why wasn’t that good enough?
But I guarantee you, had the nosey neighbor met Dr. Gates under different circumstances, say a neighborhood invitation with the President in attendance. She would have been all shits and grins to be hanging with colored folks.
Maybe the nosey neighbor should deliver some homebaked cookies, and, next time, mind her own business.
The idiots come out of the wood work, once again!
Well if one can’t act belligerent in their own home – what is the world coming too?
People, get real, this story is about two very strong egos (a cop how knows racial profiling because he teaches a class on it vs. an “august” Harvard Professor). Which one will win – who cares!!
As for Obama, he clearly stated that he did not know all the facts in this particular case, and he CLEARLY stated that when racial profiling results in police action without justification that the result is that those actions cast doubt on cases which are legit!
Did he call the cops stupid or their actions? Believe me, there is a BIG difference!
what is a moroon?
He called the Police of that city STUPID! Maybe it’s the other way around! I’m so sorry America, that I voted for this guy! WoW!
We, as European, Hispanic, Asian, and Native Americans should start yelling racism for everything.
Well, the crime rate is the elephant in the room that never, EVER gets brought up when discussing racial profiling. I would expect police to look at statistics on who commits what crimes where and act accordingly, so if a given neighborhood has a lot of street crime I would expect that there should be a higher degree of stop and frisks than there would be in a suburb where there isn’t any street crime; I would similarly expect that if carjackers, burglers, and so forth had a high concentration of a specific age/sex/demographic then I would want the police to concentrate on that group. But all of this has to still be done on a case by case basis.
It is exactly the same with TSA, I don’t agree with strip searching anyone who looks like an arab just becuase they ‘might’ be a terrorist because previous airline terrorists were arabs, but I similarly don’t want to see 89 year old jewish ladies getting the third degree in order to “prove” that no profiling is occuring becuase the chance of the 89 year old jewish woman being a terrorist is 000001.% and hassling her is stupid.
So many ignorant statements, where does one begin?… How long can REAL Americans sit and take all this flat out BS?! One comment stated that “if the police were in the right, then why were the charges dropped so quickly”? Well, could it be thats exactly what blacks have learned…BY MAKING A HUGE SCENE/SCREAMING RACISM/ARGUING WITH ANY AND ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT WHILE SCREAMING RACISM/REFUSING TO COOPERATE WITH ANY AND ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT WHILE SCEAMING RACISM/AND ALL OF AMERICAS FAVORITE..RIOTING IN THE STREETS AND PULLING INNOCENT WHITE MEN FROM THEIR VEHICLES AND BEATING THEM TO NEAR DEATH WITH THE INTENTION OF KILLING HIM JUST BECAUSEE HE IS WHITE….WORKS!!! ANYONE labeled as “white” in America are afraid to speak up and stand up for their beliefs in fear of SERIOUS persecution and being labeled as racist. F-U all, it is the blacks who scream racism to get free tickets to everything INCLUDING now the Presidency(which has become a joke to people all over the world) who are the biggest racists and you all freaking know it but are too scared to say it, or just too ignorant from brainwashing or just plain ignorant period cuz you need to feel part of something that is so heavily supported by the liberal media.
YOUR President is a racist, plain and simple, do you all forget the documented racist Sodomiser he demands to be appointed to the highest court position in the land for a lifetime term….are you all so blind and stupid to not see what is in store for us? the racist President is putting the peices of his racist government in place so we keep at each others throats for even longer. If you are labeled as “white” in this country you have been profiled for many years now….cant get jobs because of being white,…cant get promotions because youre white,…cant speak your opinion because youre white(well unless you agree with the anti-white racist’s),…cant get financial aide for ANYTHING without paying a HEAVY price for it because youre white(if you can even get any help at all).
WAKE TF UP AMERICA, your president is apologizing FOR YOU To the entire world….WTF?! He should be apologizing to ALL the World for LIEING to ALL OF AMERICA about his background, about his true racist beliefs, about his push for the destruction of our society as we know it built from our constitution. Anyone read about the rabbi’s in NJ,NY, Isreal, etc. selling human organs for 10X the price they paid to the desperate human being who needed money to survive in poverty, as well as many many other disgraceful charges?! this is just the tip of the iceberg of what goes on with the ones in “POWER” who have no morals or boundries to what they will do for money and power, and for continued power which is where money comes. I could go on, but those who know get the point.
You people in Unmass really have people in office to be proud of don’t you? A killer Kenney. A lier Kerry. A queer Frank. They you backed a Racist Obama Alas Barry Soetoro who has spend over a $one million to hide his B.C. what a State.
JP,
what the f#@% do you know about Black Liberation Theology?
Nothing, judging from your moronic statement. friggin idiot
here i was just surfing the net looking around and it appears i’ve stumbled into the ignorant racist skinhead klansman site. funny how when times get hard economically race becomes the predominant issue. any thoughts on anything relevant? perhaps like how our politicians and so called leaders (regardless of race or political affiliation) are able to live like kings while the rest of us sit around squabbling over meaningless superficial bullshit??? think for yourself. best regards, j.e.s.
anon,
“I’m pretty sure the charges were dropped because Gates is a personal friend of a) the cambridge mayor, b) the Massachusetts governor and c) the U.S. President.
Again, I am not arguing that the arrest would stand up in court, in all probability it would be dismissed by a judge or it certainly could be dismissed by a judge or jury, I am arguing that according to the police report that the arrest falls within the legal description in Massachusetts of disorderly conduct and the Duran case does not change that.”
Okay. But you can’t have it both ways. DA’s do not generally bring cases that will not stand up in court and you say yourself this one probably wouldn’t. The DA probably did not have time to hear from the president, the mayor and/or the governor. He/she probably made the decision based on her limited resources and the probability of having the case tossed by a judge.
That said, this arrest will likely cost the city money in a civil suit, it will likely cost the arresting officer both personally and professionally. In short, it was a mistake to not simply walk away. I don’t think he acted on the basis of race. I think he got pissed off at being called a racist and decided to show this guy who’s boss.
So it is finally coming out that America is not Post Racial. White people are mad now that they have a Black President. Period. He has never been Kenya’s Leader. How ignorant do you sound. Sounds like the sayings of an uneducated white man. He won get over it, he wants health care for people who cannot afford it…. get over it, he wants a black man to be treated fair in his own house get over it.
Obama is just like Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans, they get the European, Hispanic, and Asian communities to vote for them and then turn around and spit hatred. If something was wrong 40 years ago when a white man did it, it doesn’t make it ok for ANYONE to do it 40 years later.
We need an someone Independent in the White House, both parties are full of hate and only want to make money for themselves.
this sucks…..my a-hole girlfriend is a liberal…..she sucks too.
what is so appealing about this sick point of view?
don’t you morons see the truth? all libs are living in denial…and i wish i meant the river
If it had been a white dude, you all would be saying stupid sh#* like, “This is Obama the communist socialist’s new America! See, I told you! The cops are arresting people in their homes! Get your guns!
idiots
I think people are looking for any reason to annex this race card issue to the president. I would like to know how Obama’s initial statement even implied a hint of racism. It had nothing to do with race, which he made perfectly clear. I don’t believe Cambridge Police or Mass police are an 100% white force, so it’s not only white people who are the “victim”, if there really is a “victim”. What about everybody else? It sounds like all the white people whining are still trying to cope wit the fact that a black man is in office. If anything the comment was directed to the force, not one officer. As long as that officer was on the professor’s property, he was harassing him. And when was it a crime to have a bad attitude? The police are not superhuman just as Obama isn’t. Respect isn’t given, it’s earned. With that being said, Obama earned the worlds respect. He is entitled to his opinion and freedom of speech just like the rest of us. When slavery was abolished racism did not end. There are still people in this world, like police officers, and other white people in positions of power who continue to abuse it. So let’s not act like this type of thing doesn’t happen everyday. The bottom line is white people are crying they are the new minority and things are unfair for them but the real problem is because of Obama, things are actually becoming fair for the minority (blacks) after 100’s of years oppression, and that’s a lot for some white people to deal with. The day has finally come. The old Negro spiritual says “We shall overcome someday”, that day has came and went, so it’s time the world starts functioning properly and accept it. Accept us.
ha ha im just wondering when a police report was not written in favor of the arresting officer
Never could quite understand the mentality of our black community. They want equality but certainly don’t think the rules, regulations, and laws applies to them.
Personally, I am appalled that our President would put himself in a position as a “racist” himself by making such a STUPID remark in defense of Gates.
Gates was wrong! I had a similar incident happen many years ago. I accidently locked myself out. As I was attempting to climb through a half open window, the police arrived.
To make a long story short …. I proved who I was and that I did, indeed, live there. When the police were ready to leave, I THANKED them for coming. After all … it could have been a burglar.
The police were doing their job. To become belligerent and hostile is what got Gates arrested, not the fact that he was black. Had I gotten belligerent with the officers who came to my home, I’m sure they would have hauled me downtown as well .. and I’m WHITE.
Needless to say, I am very disappointed with Mr. Obama for even getting involved in this. There certainly are many more pressing issues in this country that requires his undivided attention.
Cops hate the “do you know who I am” response in word or attitude. You’re basically telling them to go away, don’t do their sworn duty because you’re above them and you’re above the law. No wonder Gates gets arrested.
TheSicilian,
“One comment stated that “if the police were in the right, then why were the charges dropped so quickly”? Well, could it be thats exactly what blacks have learned…BY MAKING A HUGE SCENE/SCREAMING RACISM/ARGUING WITH ANY AND ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT WHILE SCREAMING RACISM/REFUSING TO COOPERATE WITH ANY AND ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT WHILE SCEAMING RACISM/AND ALL OF AMERICAS FAVORITE..RIOTING IN THE STREETS AND PULLING INNOCENT WHITE MEN FROM THEIR VEHICLES AND BEATING THEM TO NEAR DEATH WITH THE INTENTION OF KILLING HIM JUST BECAUSEE HE IS WHITE….WORKS!!!”
The charges were not dropped by anyone in the case mentioned above. The assailants were aquitted. That was a miscarraige of justice to be sure but so what? That doesn’t give the cops the right to become the law unto themselves. Whites in this country can’t seem to accept that their version of American history is not consistent with the experiences of black America. Race relations is a stain on this country that we, all of us, black, white, everyone have to endure. It left a scar. We cannot pretend that scar has been healed just because we’ve made progress. Whites seem to think we’re all past that but we will probably never be completely past it.
At first I felt,That poor professor, then I investigated and found out he ranted and raved at the officers (one was black,by the way)Let me see, cops on my porch with guns on, responding to a Burglary in Progress, What type of angry idiot would not cooperate? I am ashamed of the president for stirring the pot! Thats why we have Al Sharpton!
So…I wonder what the black cop that was also there has to say about this…
Exactly, there is a black cop in the pic, what does he say? Why didn’t he stop the other cop?
NDT,
“Don’t waste your time, Anon. The liberals with which we’re dealing are the ones like Barack Obama, Chance, and NYNick who believe this:
“Bottom line people become police officer for 1 reason. POWER. This is the truth in 99% of the cases. Most of them were weakling little geeks who were picked on and bullied there whole lives. So naturally they want to be the one with the power now. This is a undisputable fact.”
I didn’t write anything of the sort. Don’t try and put words in my mouth. The fact is I think THIS cop in THIS case was wrong. That’s it.
well what great stupid comments – all the “intelligent” white conservative bunch as a whole community sings the song, “”"Obama the racist and so on …”"”
as a white who does not like the US racism – neither black nor white, I find it astonishing that the real story – as typical for American mass media – is (again) lost in the shuffle: police authoritarianism, abuse of power, lack of obeying civil rights of all Americans – The US police in any capacity that I have encountered is plain fascist and their attitude is comparable only to the former authorities in the communist eastern world … but of course none of you would agree, as you support anything white, may it be a cat against a black dog – main solidarity is white and of course patriotic … – pussies!
WHEN YU PEOPLE REALIZE THAT THIS IS NOT YOUR WORLD,YU WANT BE SO SO SO STUPID, MR.OBAMA IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. IT’S YU PEOPLE WHO HAVE THIS COUNTRY IN THE BAD STIUATION IT’S IN NOW. A WAR MR.BUSH AS CAUSE MANY LOST OF LIFE,YOUR KIDS, AND YU PEOPLE WANT TOO FEEL OUR PRESIDENT WAS OFF BASICS,NO LET ME TELL ALL OF YU PEOPLE SHUT YOUR MOUTH, AND PRAY THAT WE AS A COUNTRY CAN GET PASS THESE HARD TIMES. AND FOR THAT COP, EVERY BLACK MAN IS NOT O.J. SIMPSON, YU JUST MESS WITH THE WRONG BLACK MAN. THAT WHY YU WANT GIVE AN ACCOUNT FOR HIDING BEHIDE THAT BADGE.
Mary,
How can you be so ignorant of the way the legal system works in your own country? The cops are given a rule book to go by. They have some limited discretion, but it is the D.A. who decides if the case has merit to continue further or just let the guy off..charges dismissed. The beat cop doesn’t have this authority. He’s just the poor schmuck who gets crapped on (even when he does his job by the book) by elitist asses like our racist president and this racist professor. He’s a personal friend of the almighty Obama, just like Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers. I wish America had more of this cop’s “stupidity” and a lot less of the “intellect” of Obama, Gates and yourself.
Hey Rod, he didn’t even go to Kenya when he was right there in Africa a couple of weeks ago. Maybe he is afraid that someone will produce his Kenyan birth certificate or that his 1/2 brother will expect him to get him out of the hut he lives in.
I can’t wait to hear how he tries to wiggle (lie) out of this one. We’re only 6 months in to this debacle and it just keeps getting worse. Maybe he needs Biden to come back and come to his defense by saying something even more stupid. If this had been a white harvard professor and a black cop, Obama would have said the cop was just doing his job and that the professor should have showed him his ID. You can bet the farm on that statement!
I think people are looking for any reason to annex this race card issue to the president. I would like to know how Obama’s initial statement even implied a hint of racism. It had nothing to do with race, which he made perfectly clear. I don’t believe Cambridge Police or Mass police are an 100% white force, so it’s not only white people who are the “victim”, if there really is a “victim”. What about everybody else? It sounds like all the white people whining are still trying to cope wit the fact that a black man is in office. If anything the comment was directed to the force, not one officer. As long as that officer was on the professor’s property, he was harassing him. And when was it a crime to have a bad attitude? The police are not superhuman just as Obama isn’t. Respect isn’t given, it’s earned. With that being said, Obama earned the worlds respect. He is entitled to his opinion and freedom of speech just like the rest of us. When slavery was abolished racism did not end. There are still people in this world, like police officers, and other white people in positions of power who continue to abuse it. So let’s not act like this type of thing doesn’t happen everyday. The bottom line is white people are crying they are the new minority and things are unfair for them but the real problem is because of Obama, things are actually becoming fair for the minority (blacks) after 100’s of years oppression, and that’s a lot for some white people to deal with. The day has finally come. The old Negro spiritual says “We shall overcome someday”, that day has came and went, so it’s time the world starts functioning properly and accept it. Accept us.
You are conflating two things again.
Police arrest all kinds of people who are never brought to trial for any number of reasons, mistaken identity, the DA thinks there is not enough evidence to win at trial. Absent a showing of malicious intent or false arrest or some other illegal act by police, the fact that a charge is dismissed means nothing in terms of whether the arrest was ‘good’ or not.
At this point, with the facts coming out about Sergeant Crowley having been hand picked to teach a class on racial profiling at the police academy by a black police commissioner as well as the full backing of the Cambridge Police Union and the Boston Police Union and the Mass Association of Police Officers as well as no known history of any problems I would say it is HIGHLY UNLIKELY that Skip Gates will ever see a dime, in fact, given what has come out about Officer Crowley and his qualifications, I’d say it is HIGHLY UNLIKELY that Gates will file a lawsuit.
I also agree the officer should have walked away, and that this will no doubt hurt him professionally and personally. But, I blame that on Gates and his racism.
What I don’t agree about is that the officer was not within [even if just barely] his legal discretion to arrest Gates, and I base this on the officer’s report, which is corroborated by a second, I think Harvard PD police report from a hispanic officer, the fact that there were black and hispanic officers present, all I am fairly sure will testify that Gates was yelling and creating a disturbance, and the fact that at least two witnesses have spoken to Boston media and also corroborated that Gates was aggitated and yelling. Dude, that is all this cop needs to make a disorder conduct arrest, whether it can stick or not, that’s a different thing, but definitely meets the minimum threshold, also the photo of Gates he sure looks like he’s yelling. The cops report says there were at least 7 witnesses..so far Gates has not produced anyone that backs up his version of the story. Maybe he can, or maybe he flew of the handle, assumed racism where there was none and now he’s going to stick with it becuase he’s a famous friend of POTUS and it will sell more books and TV deals down the line. I think that makes Gates a terribly small, mean spirited person, brilliant or not.
I suspect this cop–who teaches future cops how NOT to be racist–was personally offended at the ranting from Prof. Gates, and that he was further pissed off when Gates refused to calm down after being asked, and so he arrested him. It was not the smart move, but I don’t see any evidence that it was illegal or racist in the least.
Gates, I think is a total racist whether he has a white wife or not.
it’s not a black or white issue…..it’s a “liberals eat xxxx issue
If I were the man, I would have told the officer to get the hell off of my property too. Seriously I think that most white if not all white people are racist. I absolutely hate them, for the most part… I think that my fellow white co-workers and colleagues are OK people don’t get me wrong but they are just so simple minded and for lack of a better word ignorant. Being a black female I am often looked at as the “Ghetto Black Girl” that is until I give a speech or a presentation in the classroom or boardroom. Next thing you know all of these kiss ass white people are asking me for advice and feeling comfortable around me, and not to mention asking me to study with them. Why are you all so co-dependent off of others. That well educated black man saw that uneducated, ignorant, low income police officer at his door and wanted him to not bother him in the privacy of his own home. Lets think about it would he have opened the door if he was robbing the place. Seriously people. White people should get a clue. We are indeed, as black people, smarter and not to mention better than you. Whites are so weak, they should all go back to Europe.
censorship on the blog ! neat conservative xxxxxx
What are you talking about, idiot? Just because you can’t find a comment you made? What? I only delete vulgarity, including the N word. – Dan R
Wow, someone who claims racism and stereotypes others.
To Mary contrary…
“You try to gloss over it, Dan, but the question remains. If Gates was guilty of anything, why did they drop the charges?”
Using common sense, I would assume he proved it was his home, and decided to keep his mouth shut. People, most of the citizens of the United States, are pretty sick and tired of hearing about racial issues from other races, period…not just people with dark skin. Then when our President makes racially motivated remarks, it just shows the ignorance and how he really, really shouldn’t be the President of the United States. But I didn’t vote for him for many of the reasons everyone is complaining about him now.
Unless you are a minority or a person of color. The average white person will never truly know how it feels to be accused of being a burglar in your own home. It’s hard for me to believe that a person of any race wouldn’t be angry that you were thought to be a criminal in your home, let’s get real.
And to say that Obama is a racist is truly unfair. I think racism is shown by a person’s words, deeds or actions and I can honestly say, I don’t think this president has it in him. We all have biases, some worst than others, but Obama a racist, please. That would mean he would have to hate his mom and grandparents and anyone else in his family that are white and I highly doubt that.
Amy Bowling is the type of person that tries to stir the pot more to cause even more hostility.
Enough already, denial is what has us where we are. Those who hate the president will ,of course, declare him racist,regardless. Get a life and find something positive to do!!!! I don’t care what the officer does regarding teaching other officers about profiling, and the fact that he associates with Black folk. He is human,white and how dare the Black man refer to his mama. At that point he forgot about how respected he is as one of the forces finest.
Gates you are wonderful.
At the end of the day the man is not in jail and can potentially ruin that dumb police officer’s life. That man is way too smart for that idiot cop to mess with. I honestly, at this point, do not even think it is about racism, it is about power hungry, half assed educated police officers who only feel important in uniform. The president never even said anything about race, the officer was just wrong.
Gates wasn’t acting like a spoiled child. He was acting like the racist he is and that we owe him. Gee in 400 years will some ignorant blacks continue to believe they are owed. No one is owed anything. Perhaps their great grandparents but certainly not today. Thank God My black friends who believe they are Americans… not African Americans are fab people and I love them and work with them daily. Yes, we all eat together and even go out to dinner and movies and visit in each others home. Wow! Amazing when you go through life without anger and blindfolds.
The bilous postings by the yahoos on this site are proof positive, if any was needed, that these United States of America have a distance to go before it can be truthfully said that race no longer matters. The fact is that the President made an astute observation concerning the stupidity of the police arresting a resident in his own home ONCE THE FACT OF HIS RESIDENCY HAD BEEN ESTABLISHED. There were no intelligent grounds for that action, short of Professor Gates brandishing a weapon of some sort and threatening the officers with it. Certainly, continued insistence on obtaining the offending officer’s badge number is a piss-poor rationale for the officer’s deciding to arrest Gates. Officers are legally obliged to provide their badge numbers when asked by a citizen to do so. (Otherwise, all manner of unsavory things can take place with citizens having no way to trying to ensure officer accountability to their organizational and political superiors. Imagine trying to report an act of gross disrespect and then being unable to present the identity of the officer who perpetrated it.)
The president called the shot as it was: It was an act of stupidity (and, vindictiveness, in my view) for the police to arrest Professor Gates for “disorderly conduct” after they had secured proof that he was the legitimate resident of the house. And, most of the yahoos who profess great trouble understanding this are merely showing their true colors — if you will pardon the pun.
i think that at last Obama is showing his true color even thought he said he wouldnt be for one race or another having come from both sides and being born in africa (despite forged documents to say different) he stated that he has the blood of africa in him and now this siding with a black man even though he doesnt know all the facts. But I wonder would this conversation even be under discussion had the man been white?
This is a nightmare. I thought racial equality was just that: equality. Instead, all we’ve done is switched roles between races. Sad thing is that some would say “about time!” which just goes to show how far from equal we are. There’s no way Obama can justify the stupidity of his statement. It’s clear in the statement itself that he assumed Gates was arrested, not for his disruptive behavior (which Obama seems to be unaware of), but the suspicion of burglary. What’s even more disturbing is the other comment by another promient leader stating that the yelling and abusive namecalling of a responding police office should be a basic human right. There’s already no accountablility and high entitlement in this country, and now we’re trying to add disruptive behavior to that list too? What next? Shouting matches in court listed as free speech? Domestic arguments? Loud music at 2 in the morning…you exempt one, you exempt them all. Because it’s clear that individualizing a situation and using common sense in this country brings nothing but a media flurry and slander.
Not to mention how would a man who came out of the womb of a white woman be racist. That is the pure ignorance of a white person. People see what I am talking about. Most but not all white people are ignorant belligerent foolish people. Please do us all a favor and Go back to Europe.
Obama was out of line to say that the police acted stupidly as clearly he did not know all of the facts. The fact remains however, that a citizen was arrested in his own home , having committed no crime. Being angry at anyone, priest, doctor, case worker or policeman, is not a crime. If the officer felt that Gates was a danger to himself or another person, then society should be protected and individual rights may suffer. Disorderly conduct does not apply on one’s own property. An easy example is the state of intoxication. In your own home, no problem. In public, you can and should be arrested.
Obama where is your birth certificate? Im a Hispanic American I have to show mine…
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OK, what would any of you do if a police officer comes to your home in response to a burglary report, you show your ID, and your drivers license to prove your address and you are still asked questions even though you’ve proven who you are. I’m sure someone at Harvard could have confirmed his identity, but, how would you have reacted???? I would be angry as hell, I’m being questioned in my home even after proving my identity. Get off accusing President Obama of racism, you’ve never been there, you don’t have a clue as to how it feels, if you did you wouldn’t be posting these STUPID comments
I have been arrested in my own yard before for mouthing off to the cops and im white, guess that means the cop that got me was a white on white racist too, where is all my coverage damnit =(
Wow . . .
I am not a regular reader of this blog – I was directed here by a link that was attached to an AP story by YahooNews. That being the case, I don’t want to interject too forcefully into what seems to be a conversation between a community of readers/posters/bloggers. However, the levels of racial ignorance and self-serving vitriol displayed on this page are so shocking and saddening to me that I could not simply close the link and move on with my life before responding.
To put my response to this blog-comments exchange very succinctly, I don’t think that Sgt. Crowley, Prof. Gates, or Pres. Obama are the “real” problem underlying this public controversy. On the contrary, it is people like “rod mizer,” “megapotamus,” “Shari,” and “John Henry Eden” that are the problem. I will do my best to explain with brevity.
Let’s begin by looking at the facts. Sgt. Crowley is a well respected member of a police force that serves a community (one with a history of racial issues within the community and between the community and its police force) and by all accounts he has been a model officer (even serving as a trainer to prevent racial profiling) in addition to being a family man and a (I presume volunteer) mentor to youth sports programs. Prof. Gates is a respected member of his own University faculty in addition to being a recognized and respected voice in the ongoing conversations about race in America and across the globe. What do they both have in common at an even more fundamental level than their respective contributions to their communities and to mentoring youth? They are both human beings – which means that no degree of character, no level of intellect, no record of service will ever make either of them immune to making a mistake. We do not know whether Prof. Gates mistook Sgt. Crowley’s demeanor and over-reacted or whether he stood his ground against what he reasonably interpreted as a racially motivated abuse of police powers. What we do know is that in a world where the names I mentioned above are free to spit their rubbish in public forums we can understand how Prof. Gates might have developed a heightened sensitivity to racial biases. It does seem to be the case, based on eyewitness testimony, that Prof. Gates became animated during the exchange – yet we cannot know whether his reaction was unprovoked or in response to something that was said by Sgt. Crowley. As I said, both are human and so equally capable of making a mistake individually. In an interaction between two humans the possibility of a mistake is compounded.
I think we can all agree that to err – as the saying goes – is human. The real problems of race in America come not from the daily mistakes that we make in treating each other as human beings deserving of respect but rather when self-righteous xenophobes use a single incident as the “missing link” in their logical demonstration of impending racial doom. What is displayed on this page is not a reasonable discussion of a complex issue but rather a laundry list of non sequiturs, reductio ad absurdum, and red herring fallacies (to name only the most glaring infractions).
There is wisdom in noting the importance of this event. It puts before us as members of the public some very hard to answer questions about what race means in our society. The kinds of questions that demand careful consideration and a willingness to listen to the opinions of others. There is also wisdom in pointing out that President Obama made a huge rhetorical gaff by involving himself in this issue so directly and in such a ham-handed way. If only the same level of critical attention were turned on the arguments presented here before issuing them to a public audience. Try as you might, you cannot reduce the social issue of race to either Sgt. Crowley or Prof. Gates (as much as it would serve simplistic thinking to have a scapegoat available for the project of turning your own anxieties into the spark that lights the fire that rolls back any progress we have made and in doing so restores the rightfully privileged position of white males in society).
What saddens me the most about the effects that this sort of argumentation has on the public sphere is that it scares, threatens, and cajoles people into taking your doomsaying seriously. Which is ironic when your own arguments are ample evidence that sometimes the only thing we can do is take a step back, take a deep breath, and eventually, chuckle at the fallibility of the human condition.
racial profiling ? indeed is used by police. I was thrown in jail by a black police man at the beginning of June, just for the fact of being of latin origin. He argued that i made an improper change of lane. Which i did not according to a driver behind me. I refused to admit i was at fault, then he summoned two more black police men, they pinned me down and handcuffed me. Searched the car and me. The handcuffs were put in the well known yoga style, which is painful.
The President of the United States of America is calling our private citizens stupid? It don’t matter was race the officer is, he should have never called the officer stupid. I am so angry over this, the police have to put up with so much shit as it is without the fact our President has just informed America they can yell and call the poice on duty all the names they wish, because the police are stupid if they do anything about it. The President needs to tell the officer I am sorry!!!!!!
why is anyone surprised that obama is a racist. he’s just like the rest of hte black people interviewed about this occurance. every one of the black people that have commented about this situation, in the 4 or 5 articles i have read, were on gates’ side. unfortunate, yes. not unfortunate that it happened, but unfortunate that the police officers reputation is being dragged through the mud. if you read the report it sounds to me like he did his job. if it were my house, and a black cop came and asked me to prove that i lived there after someone reported seeing me force my way in, i would be an adult and show him proof. unfortunate that gates acted the way he did, proving he is racist as well. way to represent black people all over america, good job guys.
Read all of these posts and maybe you can surmise the state of race relations in the United States. What’s the verdict?
I think if the president was going to weigh in on this, which I don’t think he should have, but if he was, he should have taken a much broader, much more measured position that perhaps highlighted how easy it is for people of different backgrounds to MISUNDERSTAND each other, and he might have alluded to the idea that perhaps Gates saw racism where there was only a cop answering a crime in progress call who could have been confronting two armed criminals instead of a little old professor…and to the idea that with a badge and gun comes responsibility and sometimes the right thing to do is let the crazy old person continue to rant rather than take them in, even if you can.
That kind of response might have been helpful. Calling the police stupid and basically backing his friend and even admitting his bias was the worst possible thing he could have done, unless his goal was to inflame racial tensions even further.
Amazing how each of you (who are not black) seems to understand the struggles of every black man, woman and child. I believe we all have some racial bias but we are so fake, it is hidden beneath smiles and illicit comments. It also amazes me that whenever a white person tries to prove they are not racist, the first thing they bring up is “I have a black friend”. Who cares if you have black friends, let’s all be honest. If it was a white man knocking a door down in a decent neighborhood, a 911 call would not have been made’ also if the cops had responded, as soon as the person identified themselves as the property owner, they (white cops)would have left,no questions answered! Don’t tell me how it feels to be black unless you walk a mile in “OUR” shoes!!!!!
Go to hell America, I know you hate black people. Ben Laden will be back again to kill you. This is the first time in history you have a good president. Stop acting like asshole.
I am so aorry that we are getting to this and hope we seriously recover. Many people have been pre-ordained to wait for an Obama mistake even if it may not have been a mistake. I am a lawyer who has learned that facts are important and we don’t know any proven facts surrounding the incident in it’s entirety ao let’s give EVERYBODY a break until we do know. I think it not important to didcuss my race whatever it, because I believe that we have to know that that a move toward this mentality that Obama has opend the race card is and is one that many will adhere to. While I believe that race is an intergral part of the American thought to the detriment of minorities, we need not abb fuel to the fire! White people relax, it’s going to be okay, a Black man is President, but he was elected to the office to protect us all no matter what, which is what I believe he was doing with his comment on the situation. I believe tht a White President would have done the exact same thing or more. Black people relax, Things have tried to change but it will take maybe years still to completely eradicate a very unfortunate character of the country. Peace be with all and let Obama do what he was elected to do whether or not you like him as a person or not.
NO-BAMA for 2012
the scum bag Gates should thank god that he wasn’t shot and a gun placed in his hand.
I was a passenger in a car pulled over by a white highway patrolman, and, thinking myself more educated (college degree), decided to “put my mouth in gear before engaging my brain.” I began to berate the officer for stopping us just because we were in a sports car. No matter that we were going a tad bit over the speed limit. I felt empowered, I had freedom of speech!
I got the handcuffs!
When appearing in court, I was very ashamed for my actions. I felt incredibly stupid and apologized. It was as if my verbal abuse of this patrol officer was laid out for all law-abiding citizens to see.
I did a little community service, paid a small fine and felt cleansed.
I had no friend in law enforcement or an attorney to dismiss my charges and I am glad because even though I was a rich white girl, the law is the same for all.
The men and women who made their choice to Protect and Serve need our support, every day, no matter what makes the headlines.
I have a problem with this idea of black exceptionalism, as if they are the ONLY people who are ever hassled by police and as if the ONLY reason they are ever hassled is because of their skin color.
You can look around the web and find HUNDREDS of stories of white cops hassling white people for mouthing off to them, I’m sure the same goes for black cops hassling black people for mouthing off to them.
This idea that all white people in the country are in on some secret conspiracy and we treat black people objectively differently belongs in the tin foil hat section of crazy conspiracies, but instead it is part of mainstream black thinking.
And again, the elephant in the room is that more blacks get stopped more frequently because a higher percentage of blacks commit crimes and that is a fact and that fact–the black crime rate–is at the heart of all the issues with police and racial profiling, but that is the part that is unmentionable.
And around and around we go.
Down in Texas anyone who argues with a policeman, whether he white or black is in trouble. We back our cops here and they seldom any “stupid” act…..at least no one calls them “stupid”….
THE PRESIDENT SHOULD BE MORE DIPLOMATIC
Thank God for Obama to be the highest official in the government to admit cops do stupid things that lead to stupid results.
Obama never said this was a “Post racial” society, it was the Media and Republicans.
I’m a mix person another words I have many different cultures running threw my blood.
The man should have just given his Id to the officer even if he thought the cop was a jerk. I’m not mad at Obama after all this is the norm for blacks being treated like this in this country. Get over the comments Obama made and let him get on with trying to fix up the big lies that this country has been selliing us all about the American dream. We have other bigger issues. I’ll tell u another thing = ever since Obama’s been in office the media has been pickin, pickin and pickin at any stupit thing that has nothing to do with american gettiing there lives together. the media acts as if Obama put us in this no money shit! get over it. Spend your time being thankful for what you have and not what u don’t have! Such as food!
Um… Weren’t the charges dropped AFTER they found out Gates is Obama’s BFF and AFTER Obama made his statements? Gates could have be arrested after slaughtering a bus full of orphans and the DA might as well have dropped the charges. The president can make criminal charges go away with the stroke of a pen so why bother? Talk about having the sense not to waste state resources… This was quite obviously NOT a big enough crime to bother taking to court and not the person to take to court. The absolute best part is, it sure seems like the cop is/was an Obama supporter. I wonder if he feels like the gays did when Obama needlessly stabbed them in the back? I sure hope so…
Anyone at any time can a commit racist act. With 250 million white folks and 40 million blacks do the math. As far as for this cops past dealings with blacks doesn’t give him no free passes. Oh we got the best Man in office we ever had. Peace Out
First, let me say that I’m a little disturbed by the several comments that seem, in the main, to trash all white people (e.g., the “go back to Europe” and “poor, ignorant white trash” epithets). Defense of the President’s words and denunciation of the racist inclinations of a number of yahoos on this site neither requires nor excuses commentary that borders on the scatalogical. Not all white people are malevolent and unreconstructed racists, just as not all people of [whatever] color are benevolent and saintly in their conduct. Amidst all of our outrage over the more outrageous racist commentary being posted on this site, let’s not forget to bear in mind that our only hope as a nation, as a planet, is that the broad middle will hold against the virulent racists and equally virulent anti-racists in ALL groups of races.
I believe that the President’s responses to the question posed of him last night was entirely in order. There was NO justification for the officer’s arresting Professor Gates simply because Gates was upset, outraged, and perhaps angry over what he felt as humiliation in his own home. Vocalized anger at the police is not grounds for arresting a citizen. The officers should have apologized for their intrusion (necessary though it was, given the call received concerning a house break-in or burglary in progress)and then bade Professor Gates a good day. That would have ended the matter, I believe.
But, by arresting Gates, the sargeant seemed to be determined to “pull rank” and show this uppity Black professor “who’s the boss.” THAT was the stupid part of the action. And, the President said so.
All those who profess outrage that the President would label that act for what it was — well, what I can say? You’re truly hopeless. No need to tell everyone how much you’re waiting for 2012, so that you vote against BHO. We already know that. In fact, most of you didn’t vote for him this time around because the thought of having the Federal Government run by a half Black/half White man (who identifies with BOTH heritages) was simply too ghastly for you to contemplate.
But, I believe that YOU be the ones to be surprised when the President wins reelection — with the support of most of the same coalition of progressive citizens of all races and hues who are determined to keep America on the path of progressive government. Government by the people, for the people, and of the people — the WHOLE people, not just one color of people. So, get ready to be disappointed in 2012. The multi-hued “Yes We Can” crowd is going to prove you wrong — again!
In the end, it is stupid to arrest a man for breaking into his own residence. However Obama should have used the term, “not smart” which is the same thing but would have drawn less fire. The first G. Bush also said the LA police were wrong for beating Rodney King, when these same conservatives were saying the police can do no wrong and King deserved it.
Look…As a black person I know many black people Get themselves in trouble buy shooting their mouths off. When the police arrived he should have kept his mouth SHUT! When asked for ID show it and keep quiet. He had nothing to worry about because it was his house. He could have saved him self a lot trouble by remaining silent….Then if he felt violated afterwords let his lawyer do his talking for him. The cop was NOT a raciest. he just didn`t want anyone talking crap to him while he was tring to do his job.
I’m am DEEPLY disappointed in this President, who promised to bring the nation together, and instead, at every single turn does whatever he can to divide the people. Race this, race that. Back to africa crap, constant pretense of racial profiling, por- us thumb-sucking and even supposedly serious discussion about compensating slavery. I stupidly voted for him. He’s openly betraying the trust I placed in him. It will never happen again.
Local police are replacing their German shepherd K9 corps with coon hounds. It seem they never have problems with Germans!
Arresting and handcuffing someone legally in their own house who has not committed any crime is stupid in anyone’s book. To then add an unnecessary and cya charge of “disorderly conduct” is more than stupid, it is the type of intentionally false charge that sworn peace officers routinely allege in order to cover up their own misconduct. Use excessive and unlawful force on a suspect – well, then just charge the person with resisting arrest. Harass or argue with a citizen for no good reason, well then just charge the person with disorderly conduct. All the officers involved had to do was confirm that Gates was the lawful resident of the house and then leave and go actually investigate some real crimes. Anyone who believe that police officers do not fabricate charges of resisiting arrest and disorderly conduct on a routine basis against persons of all races is living in a dream world.
Ah, the entertainment of watching the so called “moderates” reveal their complete bigotry.
“There was NO justification for the officer’s arresting Professor Gates simply because Gates was upset, outraged, and perhaps angry over what he felt as humiliation in his own home.”
Really. NO justification. NO chance whatsoever that Gates did anything wrong. Nothing of the sort. All the police officer’s fault.
Bigot.
“But, by arresting Gates, the sargeant seemed to be determined to “pull rank” and show this uppity Black professor “who’s the boss.”"
Speculation. Mindreading. All the things that the liberals pull. Again, no chance whatsoever that Gates did anything wrong. Nothing of the sort. All the police officer’s fault.
Bigot.
“In fact, most of you didn’t vote for him this time around because the thought of having the Federal Government run by a half Black/half White man (who identifies with BOTH heritages) was simply too ghastly for you to contemplate.”
Yes, because anyone who disagrees with Obama is a racist.
You keep opening your mouth and more bigotry comes out.
Sgt. Crowley is a teaches a class at a police academy (hand selected for it) about Racial Profiling. Don’t get your hope up, Mary the Moron Contrary (or Obama), because the class actually teaches cadets what it is, how unacceptable it is, and cultural sensitivity with community/human relations likely thrown in. Please, go fall off the face of the earth, Mary. Thank you.
Last night when the President was speaking about the Health Care Plan, at the end of the speach it was the last question of the night. Out of no where the question was asked about Gates. Really who gives a flip about that, people in this country still don’t have health care and loosing their jobs. And all I read is citizens of America bashing the President instead of us PRAYING for a solution to the problem. This has always been the problem in America we always revert back to people being racist.
And notice what Barack Obama and “progressives” are now saying about police officers.
“Anyone who believe that police officers do not fabricate charges of resisiting arrest and disorderly conduct on a routine basis against persons of all races is living in a dream world.”
And again: since progressives and Obama Party members believe all police are racist bigots, does that make black policemen Uncle Toms and race traitors?
Please dont bring up other presidents and, “objective fact finding”.
The Weapons of Mass Destruction LIE has taken thousands of lives, and we’re not out yet.
Another big mistake by Obama.Another colored appointment,black and fat.
I wonder if the President’s calling the policeman acts”stupid” if he really realizes what harm he has done to the country. He best backtrak quickly before it comes home to haunt him.
Go back to europe and give the Indians and Latinos there land back!!!!!
It’s amazing how we forget our hi-story.
Racism : 700 yrs and more!
Non-racism : 0 yrs!
MOST OF THE COMMENTS MADE HERE ARE REAL IGNORANT. THE ATTITUDES OF SOME COPS CAN BE RUDE AT TIMES, IN WHICH THEY DO STEREOTYPE. THE COPS WERE IN CHARGE OF THE SITUATION WHEN THEY WENT TO THE PROFESSORS HOME, THIS WHOLE SITUATION COULD HAVE EASLIY BEEN AVOIDED IF THE POLICE WOULD HAVE SAID “SORRY SIR FOR THE MISTAKEN IDENTITY AND HAVE A GOOD DAY” ,AFTER THEY HAD SEEN HIS ID. THE INCIDENT WOULD HAVE BEEN OVER,AND EVERYONE COULD HAVE WENT THERE OWN SEPERATE WAYS.IF A WHITE PERSON WOULD HAVE BEEN ARRESTED ON THERE OWN PROPERTY HALF OF YOU WOULD HAVE PROBABLY LOST IT OR HAD A HEART ATTACK , ESPECIALLY IF THE SHOE WAS ON THE OTHER FOOT AND IT WAS A BLACK COP LOCKING UP A WHITE PERSON!! YOU SHOULD BE MAD @ THE PEOPLE FROM THE STUPID BUSH ADMIN.FOR STEALING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM AMERICANS !! THINK ABOUT IT !!IDIOTS
Its funny the kinda of comments that come out of some of u called so called maybe educated people mouth… Racism is real in america and u white ppl know it…Its sad but the truth is the truth…Alot of u guys have it good because u are white and its true…I am a very well educated young black engineer female and i have had to prove myself more than my white counterparts that are not even close to academically sound as i am….I had a GPA of 4.0 and i had to work hard to get my job as opposed to my former classmates that graduated with a 2.75 G.P.A.
Its sad that in 2009 blacks still get paid lower in corporate america than whites.
Lets no even talk about the fact that i graduated from a school in rural america where there are more poor & uneduated people than i have ever seen in my entire life yet they are not judged.
I have had cops stare and follow myself and my hubby cos we drive luxury cars..
Some of u racist fools need to go back to school, get more educated and get more enlighten and then maybe u will be able to talk and act with commonsense.
I can only say that if “Reality Check” graduated with a 4.0 with those grammar and writing skills, then our system of higher education is in much worse shape than even I thought it was. LOL.
so does this mean if i break into my on house and neighbors call police and a cop comes and arrest me even know I tell the cop it is my house and then i can yell your racist do to it is a black cop arresting a white person. This is sick this is what the people get that voted a black person in to president, oh for some of you people I hope keeping an eye on the laws he is trying to pass.
Obama is fooling and fleecing America. It will all come out in the end. This man comes from a racist background and, a little at a time, the people are seeing it. Unfortunately this country is going to be turned upside down before the masses have a clue. Wake up america. This guy is not a statesman, he is not a leader who can be respected at home or internationally, and he is a racist, flippant fool. He is wet behind the ears and if we are not careful, we will lose the foundation this country was built on. Already, since he took office, the Govt. controls the auto industry, the banks, they are chipping away effectively at our rights to own guns, and they are working on controlling health care. We are not a socialist country…… In the end we are losing our freedoms. The racial divide in this country has deepened since this man took office. I am hoping the people of this country will see it. How irresponsible can thisguy get?
I ditto that one!!!!!!!!!!!!
“IF A WHITE PERSON WOULD HAVE BEEN ARRESTED ON THERE OWN PROPERTY HALF OF YOU WOULD HAVE PROBABLY LOST IT OR HAD A HEART ATTACK , ESPECIALLY IF THE SHOE WAS ON THE OTHER FOOT AND IT WAS A BLACK COP LOCKING UP A WHITE PERSON!!”
Wrongo. If a white person was doing what Gates did, screaming at a black cop, calling them a racist, following them and so forth, I’d be the first to applaud the black cop for putting the handcuffs on and arresting the bastard.
“Some of u racist fools need to go back to school, get more educated and get more enlighten and then maybe u will be able to talk and act with commonsense.”
The jokes just write themselves with that one.
It is great to live in America where we have freedom of speech. Unfortunately, the more some individuals talk, the more you see just how truly ignorant they are. If Bush was such a good president, why is America suffering because of the mistakes he made?? President Obama has the right as a citizen and as the president to speak his mind. He can decide what is right and wrong in states, if need be. A president helped to stop segregation in the south. However, it is still the “old south.” Dixie never changes. Anyone can be the victim of the police, “behaving stupidly” They do it every day. If there is anyone out there who believes that cops will not kill based on your ethnic background, watch the news, read the paper. Being white does not make you exempt. For all of the racism and hatred you white blog-masters are vomiting just how safe are you? Is it not better to be human than just to be white at the end of the day? How very sad and pitiful. I do not care what any of you say about my opinion, it will scare you because you know it is true, it will enrage you because you know I am correct. All of the HUMAN beings who love freedom and justice and intelligence I applaud your humanity.
I didn’t vote for the socialist. The Constitution is a thing of the past.
Obama’s action is not the reason we are having the set back in race relations with police officer. Maybe some of you blogging is as racist as the officers whose actions you should be upset about.This is why colored people in this country will never be totally trusting of the people who have the power to abuse(white officers). Thank God it was not a bunch of black cops who arrested a white man for just trying to get into is house,Obama would be running for his life right now. We should stick to the issues and stop blaming the wrong people. Ask colored people whose action more affect there relationship with cops.the cops or Obama. Racism is a word some like to throw around when they don’t want to accept the fact of who really is to be blamed. It makes me wonder if blaming Obama is not just being “RACIST”. The cops were wrong, black or white, and they are the reason colored will be guarded when it comes to cops.
Krystal,
I will leave if you go first. Please go. Now!
Gates is the supposedly educated and civil one. He should be grateful that the authorities investigated a possible break-in. He should have simply showed his ID when asked, and the matter would have been over. I am white, and I know better than to intentionally provoke and insult a police officer doing his job. Minorities have the luxury of blaming all their problems on the white man. It is a way of life for many, even the educated ones.
Barak Obama Biden Laden
Love the neighbor as thy self
Cops have a shoot first and ask questions later mentality. No wonder so many of them are being killed.
On tv from california, this nation watched a black man beaten every night. King! It had to take a riot to get your minds straight. You can never do the right thing unless your asses are getting kicked by the very people you oppress every day.
ok just posted now post again, this sounds like the incident a while back when a black person was running through red lights to get to the hospital and when get to hospital has a problem when cop approach and trys to get imformation and again it was a black male that was stop by a white officer. An the white cop is to blame cause do to it is racist again, If the people do not see now that a black person in office it seems everything a white person does againist a black person its racist so hide behind the color and not be responseable for your own action in that running through red lights you need a ticket if caught an breaking into home whether it is yours or not.
Why is it that when a Black Man speaks the truth, the majority of white americans are offended? Get use to it because Black Americans have had to listen and take orders from white americans for far too long. Wake up and smell the roses, these are changing times and you are not as superior to others as your race has always thought. God is the Great Equalizer, ask King Pharoah. Yes, we all need to repent for our sins and mistreatments of others but white americans had better come to God with a deeply repentent heart and not just smiling faces. I have observed that when white americans loss their money or position of power, they feel totally weak and threatened by others. White america nees to step out of the room of denial and accept the fact that on a whole, they have been a evil race of people towards minorities. Learn to love and not hate! If your race does not change from within your heart, your people will fill the chambers of hell from top to bottom.
For all you loudmouths who claim that Obama was wrong to call the police’s actions “stupid” (which obviously it was since the charges were dropped), go get an education or re-educate yourself. Better yet, let someone with brains educate you.
Obama is a typical anti law enforcement liberal .He states that he doesnt know the facts but offers his opinion on police procedure that he is apparently ignorant about.Even Bush or Clinton would not have remarked on an incident when they did not have the facts. Well we only have three more years to go.He is very good when reading from a teleprompter but you see his real side when he has to think on his feet.
Other than the statement Mr. Gates wrote, no I don’t. The police report doesn’t mention anything about Gates asking for his name and badge but I wouldn’t take that as evidence that conversation didn’t happen. What we do know without a doubt is that these charges were dropped within 24 hours of his arrest.
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Um, yes the police report does.
The officer stated he gave his name two times. You are a liar.
Good for U Mr. President, finally someone from that office,calling this type of behavior what it is “stupid”. As an African American woman I am glad he spoke up so agressively, he reminded me that he was black. I am so sick of U racist cops getting away with “stupid stuff” because u are white and have a badge…Oh…. my…. your feeling are finally hurt…well too bad…My feeling are hurt every time I hear that another black man has been shot or killed by a white police officer, and they get away with …..cold-blooded murder because they have a gun and a badge..Now that’s “stupid” too, and cowardly. Shooting black men in their backs.
“…Even Bush or Clinton would not have remarked on an incident when they did not have the facts..”
Your kidding right.
You mean like WMD in Iraq.
geezz
Aaron,
How much education do you have? What was your G.P.A? This is not about how stupid you are. Run Forest, run.We are having a conversation about racism,police brutality, and Our president’s opinion. What are you doing? Are you eating a box of chocolates? I could not resist. Why do some of you people set yourselves up for ridicule? What did you contribute to the conversation? You must be very insecure. Now you will lash out at me, as will some of your little clones. I have had enough for now and I will not waste anymore time with your silly banter. For all of the smart people good night. For Aaron…seek help before we see you on the news, being beaten by a white cop, who has more education than you. What is your G.P.A? How many of you are angry, do you think I care?
The cops should have walked out, no big deal, no headlines. But they just can’t when they see a black man, brown man.
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I love watching you barely literate imbeciles in action. In case you missed it: Gates FOLLOWED THE POLICE OUTSIDE
Good grief.
By the way, watching the ‘tolerant’ left reveal exactly how much they hate white people is quite the eye opener.
I’m with Mike2Cents -
Funny how people can be so quick to judge after hearing only the policeman’s side of the story. I also agree that racism was not as big a part of altercation as two male egos. Cops always win here – and it is what is so attractive about the job. These cops without the inflated power the law gives them would not enjoy a fraction of their ability to dominate others. It’s a real head trip. By the policemans own admission he failed to supply information he is required to(though he came up with an – um – I guess – “good excuse”)
As for racism, the bigger clue that racism still exists is in the responses to this story. Wow are people excited and ready to attack this professor – and they haven’t even heard his side of the story. They attack the president saying he doesn’t have all the facts. Do they?
Another jerk blogger, stirring up a tempest in a teapot to get attention to his/her otherwise worthless opinions.
Obama took the bait, and the howling dogs of the perpetual junior swiftboat society took up the scent.
Worthless garbage, I won’t post on this piece of drivel again.
First off good points and bad points can be made from all these arguments.
1 Obama should have declined to comment as it is intuitively obvious that he did not have all the facts.
2 Cambridge is a big college town, statistically the crime rate around any college is higher, because college kids of all races can do stupid things. This statistic has nothing to do with race creed color or sexual orientation, it just happens.
3 Obama as President has a civic duty to support the law first, therfore he has to support the law enforcement. It is in his Oath of Office. His racial comment was unnecessary and shows his true feelings. As President he has to remain unbiased, because an American is not just white, but is multi ethnicities. This is why America at one time was called the melting pot.
4 Further evidence shows by the witness that the law enforcement was called to investigate a break in. Law enforcement is required to respond, thats their job.
In summary if anything, Mr. Gates should be thanking the Police for being Protective and doing their job. The police in this country have a hard enough job as it is, without having to be called a Rascist just for trying to Protect and Serve. Do the Police sometime overreact and go overboard? Yes they can and I am sure that they have overreacted in given situations. People need to try and walk a mile in their shoes. This Rascist implication could cause the Police to be even more cautious and cost a human life when a real crime is happening. I think the President should apologize for his remark and I think Gates should apologize as well for exploiting this situation. This country has bigger problems then this to overcome and frankly this could hurt the President for stating what he did without having the facts,
For all you loudmouths who claim that Obama was wrong to call the police’s actions “stupid” (which obviously it was since the charges were dropped),
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Um, I know this is going to be hard for an ignorant dupe like you to grasp, but the charging being dropped don’t have anything to do with the actions of the police being “stupid”
As you can see, this has become political. For you and your silly, ignorant ilk to ignore that demonstrates how shamefully dishonest you are.
However, since we are on this line of thought, Scooter Libby didn’t do anything wrong because the President commuted his sentence, right? Nobody in the White House “outed” Valerie Plame because nobody was ever charged with a crime, right?
WE can play this game all day, you simpleton.
Gates has been giving his side of the story for several days now, he’s been intervied on national TV, he’s been interviewed on his own web site, his lawyer put out a statement, his lawyer has been interviewed.
The only thing that speaks for the officer in question is the police report and the witnesses who have spoken to the media.
In fact, it is Gates ridiculous contention that the cop thanked him for cooperating and then slapped the cuffs on him out of nowhere that convinced me he was fabricating his entire account.
Never could quite understand the mentality of our black community. They want equality but certainly don’t think the rules, regulations, and laws applies to them.
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Of course they don’t. Guilty white liberals change the rules for them and when they don’t succeed or get it trouble, guilty white liberals (encouraged by hate-mongers like Rev Wright & the Gates buffoon) tell them it isn’t their fault.
If you spent a lifetime watching the rules be changed in your favor and/or hearing people excuse your faults what would you end up thinking?
Yea of course the dickhead is sticking up for his “brotha”. Blacks do this all the time, defend other blacks even if they are guilty as hell(OJ), they seem to believe they are above the law or something. I got news for little Obama, arresting the man for being disorderly was not stupid, it’s teaching people to respect them. He’s supposed to be one of the most respected intellectuals in the black community, and yet he behaved like a two year old when simply asked for identification. Real intellectual huh?? This is just another example of ignorant people trying to throw the race card every chance they get.
Most of you commenting are racist. Like it or hate it Obama spoke the truth that needed to be spoken.
Then again what do you expect from an highschool dropout police?
Some of your sound like the south african whites that are leaving the country because the tables have been turned on them.
It just shows treat people the way you want to be treated
okay, i love obama, and love the thought of americans being americans first and persons of seperate ancestry second, but white doesn’t make right, nor does it make wrong! what is so hard to understand about the possibility that this man with an accomplice could’ve actually been a burglar cleaning out the harvard hot shot’s estate, and why couldn’t his reaction been one of cooperation, perhaps even getting help from the police officer to enter in the premises without excess damage done to the door? why does it always have to come down to “it’s because i’m a minority?” once again, out of anger comes stupidity from many directions, and by the way, i never thought obama was perfect, only about 20 times better for us than the bush regime and his cronies that won’t fade silently like the losers they are. surely we will gain power over our own minds someday, not letting fear and insecurity rule us on any count? this will be true evolution.
President Obama Torques Police Officers Off Nationwide By Playing The Race Card In Harvard Professors Disorderly Conduct Arrest
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I agree with some of the writers that not all whites are racist but the majority of those reponding negative about President Obama and Mr. Gates have not yet and will never accept the fact that a Black man is in the White House. Some whites are true haters and racist and God will deal with them one by one, down to the fourth generation. Whites must realize that they are not superior to anyone because God created us all. Get over it if you are offended by the truth because the Black man and Black woman have endured your evil ways for hundreds of years but finally the wind is changing directions. The first shall be last and the last shall be first! Stop serving the devil by your evil deeds against humanity, especially Black citizens. We will rise to the top!
if you think this is the end of this, think again, i really believe pandoras box has just been opened, i belive we are all in for a hell of ride for the next 4 years, but hopefully the american people will stop and think before the next election.
You people are absolutely pathetic. Your “Reverse Racism” charges are comical.
You want to hate black people. Be grown ups, and admit it. Stop trying to find a way to legitimize your abject ignorance.
Like it or hate it Obama spoke the truth that needed to be spoken.
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Yes, yes he did:
“I don’t know – not having been there and not seeing all the facts”
Obama is the RACIST. The very idea that he would speak about the matter not knowing all the details amazes me.
He just used the oportunity to bring up racism.
It is a KNOW FACT that more blacks and hispanics commit crimes in this country. Where you live has nothing to do with who gets into crime.
How bout responsibility for your own actions.
No one “forces” anyone to hold a gun to someones head or rob someone or steal from someone.
Obama is so racist it is pathetic !!
You should look no further than all the people he has appointed, and selected to be in his cabinet. Even Nasa.
They even have to sign a paper saying they will be faithful to him and his beliefs.
GASP….So even the white folks he picked are racist ! Pitiful.
White people will never be able to understand being discriminated against because of the color of your skin. Crowley, teaching about diversity does not speak to what he really feels about Blacks. Their is a difference between criminal behavior and being outraged in your OWN about how the policeman is handling your situation. Good law-abiding hardworking black men have been killed by cops because they were Black and the “assumption” was that they were in the wrong. I am a 59 year old Black American female and I have never heard about an innocent white man being shot and killed by the cops. That should tell Americans something. Our President has a right to voice his thoughts about his friends arrest. Dr. Gates, is a well-respected citizen and American. The election of a Black President did not nor did I believe it would stop Whites from thinking they are superior to Blacks. President Obama was elected because of his character, wisdom in how he ran
his campaign and knowledge of the issues. Whether we are civilians or police officials we need to have a basic respect for each other, law abiding Americans. Jan
Good for the officer. He did nothing wrong. Stick it out..
given gov’t statistics that 32 percent of all black males will be in PRISON police have every right to view black savages with suspicion. The race has problems whether in Africa or any other country. Blacks in charge of countries do not seem to do well…savage criminals.
Mr.rod mizer
kind sir. with that type of white trailer park trash comment is one reason we can’t seem to get along.you couldn’t pay you to come to my neck of the woods and say that you redneck piece of sh*t.
And yes the officer made a typical racist call no doubt about it.
bury your head in the sand in hope that people that are different you go away PLEASE!!!!!!!
One final thought before I sign off: A mong the tragedies inflicted on the American psyche by centuries of racism is the almost pathological misapprehension that a person of color can only “prove” that he’s being “non-racial” when he takes the side of Whites on issues of race and color. This perverse mentality largely accounts for the conservative White’s “acceptance” of Supreme Court Justice Thomas (despite his violation of that age-old taboo against Black men marrying White women) — in contradistinction to these same conservative’s outrage that President Barack Hussein Obama would have the “nerve” to articulate the view that the police acted stupidly in arresting a Black man in his own home simply because the Black man was angry at being accosted in his own home (and having been forced to produce proof that he was not a burglar) and demanded the sargeant’s badge number.
Justice Thomas, these folk believe, is a “good” Black man because he sees things the way they see them. And, he votes as his “master,” Justice Scalia, tells him. Now THAT’s a “good Negro.” No lip. No controversy. Just an upright and upstanding manservant — someone who can be counted on to do as he’s told and not rock the boat. [The one exception: He did draw the line on how far he was willing to take his “step-n-fetchit” routine when a cross-burning case came before the Court a few years back. While several of the “good ‘ol boys” on the Bench were wont to view the act as protected by the First Amendment, Clarence managed to stopping shuffling long enough to advance the view that cross-burning should not enjoy First Amendment protection because of its use as a century-old method of intimidating people of color into foregoing their rights as citizens. Result: The majority — in deference to a newly assertive Thomas — decided that cross burning aimed at intimidating or threatening violence against others would henceforth be bereft of Constitutional protection. But, that was Justice Thomas’ one lone defense of the rights of people of color. Before that, and since then, he has functioned consistently and reliably as the right wing’s personification of how a “good Negro” should act, think, and feel.
Imagine how much more a darling of the right wing Justice Thomas would be if he, like President Obama, were of mixed racial heritage, instead of being just a shade or two lighter than coal! Wow, with his “Whites-can-do-wrong-in-racial-matters-and-Blacks-can-do-no-right” mentality, he might have even been elevated to poster child for the KKK!
The pity of a Justice Thomas, in comparison to President Obama, is that he but a caricature of a Black man. He is a product of a system that emasculated him, brainwashed him, and then threw him a White woman as a consolation prize. For too many centuries,the rightwing reactionary types among us got accustomed to the Justice Thomases among us and are understandably shocked, amazed, and dismayed when a half-Black man like Barack Obama rises to the fore and has the gall to call a stupid action what it is — STUPID. It’s what psychologists call “cognitive dissonance.” Obama is not “supposed” to hold THAT view or utter THOSE words. “Doesn’t he know that he’s not conforming to our definition of what a Black man should say or do?” they’re asking deep back in the recesses of their mind. But, get real: The image of Black men that you constructed in Justice Thomas, Ward Connolly, what’s-his-name (oh! Alan Keyes: that certifiable fool who ran against Obama for the Illinois Senate seat a few years ago) — to name a few — is a MIRAGE. Those folks are FIGMENTS OF YOUR RACIST IMAGINATIONS. They matter to no one, except you who created them.
When you want to really know and understand how Black people (and not infrequently, other people of color) view events in this country, you’re infinitely better off listening to and pondering the words of an Barack Obama or Henry Gates or Judge Leon Higginbotham (to name a few). In so doing, you’d be discarding the make-believe worldviews of these “straw” Blacks that you’ve been constructing since the onset of American slavery — and thereby be able to see life in these United States of America as most people of color see it.
But, I’m a realist. I know you won’t do this. Why? Because deeply ingrained racism is like a bird flu or SARS or some other virulent virus: It continually mutates, hibernates, and then returns to strike in some new, more dangerous form. So, I’m quite sure that after you’ve thrashed and trashed President Obama for articulating what most people of color think of the action of that Cambridge police sargeant, you will hiberate for a while (but continue seething and resenting all along) until Obama or some other prominent Black American says or does something that fails to conform to your notion of “the good Negro.” And, you’ll then be back with a vengeance. . . . It’s too bad that there isn’t an innoculation against this kind of social disease.
ernestine to you and others like you, the real prejudice in this country is more in terms of social standing than skin color. quit feeling so special. yours is not the only culture to be oppressed. you are in company with jews, irish, mixed bloods, native americans, hispanics,chinese, japanese, poor white trash, and middle eastern descendants, and i’m sure i’m forgetting more. we can continue to blame and yell and scream, or we can respond to injustice with dignity and truth. aren’t african americans tired of having their emotions played on by various “icons” of the race, calling themselves men of god when they should call themselves men who gain power through rage? why do so many allow themselves to be herded like cattle to these powerful “leaders” purposes? where there is faith there can be no rage. where there is confidence there can be no browbeating or the acceptance of such. want to solve minority oppression? become rich, and everyone will be kissing your behind. the only color this whole nation responds to positively as a whole is green, and i assure you, i am not green. had a g uncle get killed during an argument mistakenly. was that because he was white in the wrong side of town? or simply because he allowed himself to get caught up in foolishness and foolish friends? common sense has got to overcome this war dance eventually.
(“Crowley’s neighbors had a different story that tends to support the sergeant’s actions. One man who says he saw the incdient.) Incident is spelled incorrectly.
I think the black community use the racist words way too often. As an educated professor at Harvard… Mr.Gates should know better not to use the racist remark. If anything, the office is making Cambridge a better and safer community! Sometime, education can’t change your root!!! you can bring a person out of the ghetto’s but you can’t get the ghetto out of the person. I don’t know the officer personally, but my support is for the police officer!!! Keep up the great work at keeping us safe, and making it a better community for our children’s. Doesn’t matter if we’re black, white or yellow. This is coming from a person who is not white! As for Obama, I think, he’s doing a great job and i am looking foward to see what else will happen next. Enjoy!
AMAZING ROD MIZER, NOW WHO IS RASIST, YOU PEOPLE ARE PATHETIC TO ACT LIKE THE FACT IS UNCLEAR, IT IS UNLAWFUL TO BE ARRESTED IN YOUR HOME WHEN YOU DONE NO WRONG BLACK OR WHITE, I DON’T CARE ABOUT SOME STUPID COMMENT, THE POLICE BEHAVIOR WAS OUT OF LINE AND I DO BELIEVE MOST OF THE PEOPLE WRITING THESE DISGUSTING COMMENT ARE WHITE PEOPLE, YOU HAVE TO BE IN ONES SHOE TO UNDERSTAND, THIS WASN’T A RACIAL STATEMENT THE PRESIDENT MADE IT’S JUST FACTS AND I’M A VICTIM OF THE FACT, I STILL SUPPORT THE POLICE AND SEND THEM MY HARD WORKING $25 BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY SOME OF THEM ARE DOING A GOOD JOB, THE ONLY PEOPLE MAKE THIS RASIST IS WHITE PEOPLE WHO CAN’T TAKE THE TRUTH, I HOPE YOU COULD HANDLE THAT.WHEN A JEWISH PERSON CRY MURDER, EVERY ONE UNDERSTAND WHERE THEY ARE COMING FROM, BLACK PEOPLE CRY UNFAIR AND YOU DON’T GET IT, UNFREAKING BELIEVABLE .
I wish you could all be African American or Hispanic for a week, I guarentee when you try to speak back to any police officer, especially in a white community in our country, you would never get away with a piece of the tone that the grandma did on CNN – ABC – CBS – Fox did a few months back. And please snatch something from the police!!!
You would be tasered within 30 seconds of talking back, let alone getting out of the car and using foul language as she did. They wouldn’t care how old you are, if your black or hispanic, look out. Why do we have to act like yes sir massa, when the police stop us? We are all American’s are we not?
You racist are the ones that feel singled out by the presidents comment and you like to continue having fearfull nigers, but those days are over. You are stupid, if you think all is well in America becuase your nigers and spicks, know thier place in your community.
I wish you could be a different race for a week and try to go home to your current neighborhood without police stopping you, then you would know how it feels. Or is it that you do know that people are treated this way in your country and you don’t care. YOU DUMB CRAKERS MAKE ME SICK!!!! Please forgive me you inteligent understanding white people, I do realyze your out thier but some of these comments make me sick.
I am a 54 year old African American with friends of all races!!!!
What makes people suspicious is how the Press spreads the Molasses in praising Mr. Gates by using such TERMS as Scholar, Aclaimed, Pre-eminnent, Renowned……You wonder whether these descriptions are True or whether they are being used just because we have an Afro-American President…….Instead of Uniting the Country, they are watering the seeds of Racism…..
First of all the President did not say the Officer’s were stupid he said they acted stupidly in arresting a man who showed proper ID in his home. Think about it if you were breaking into your home and an officer came over on a 911 call and you showed ID, and they still arrested you, you would be angry. It really doesn’t matter if you are Black or White. The officer’s should apologize to the Professor because some officer think they are always, always right. The President was right for saying they acted stupidly because they really did.
This would have been a “non-situation” that we never would have heard about if Gates hadn’t lost his temper when the police arrived to investigate a “breaking and entering” report.
Some of you have said that Gates shouldn’t have been arrested, regardless of how vulgar his behavior was to the cop, who, by the way, was there to protect Gates’ property in the event that it was an actual theft in progress.
You never watch COPS on TV?! How many times do the cops arrest someone (even from their own home! Oh!, how horrible) simply because the person got abusive with the cops and didn’t can the theatrics when ordered to. If the cop was black, Gates would probably have thanked him for responding and checking out his house based on the 911 call.
Gates showed himself to be the racist for acting the way he did. He is just another pompus elitist who thinks its OK to bully other people around just because of the color of their skin.
And Obama. My, My. He sure didn’t act presidential by putting his two cents in (after admitting that he didn’t have any facts to base it on). No, he acted in true accord to who he really is–a racist community organizer. You might be able to take the man out of the country but you can’t take the county out of the man. No matter how you dress him, and what you call him, he is still just another community organizer straight out of ACORN.
Charges are dropped at court all the time, this is nothing new. I have seen ass hats with “rap sheets” 30 pages long have charges dismissed. It doesn’t mean Gates is not guilty of the charges, it simply means it is not worthwhile to pursue charges as the tumultuous behave has been ended and Gates has been punished enough already for his minor infraction.
Wow. Truth is:
People with their overblown, excessive, overinflated sense of importance and authority abuse their positions. That includes police,scholars,presidents from the local level to international levels.
The whole country is all bent because the president spoke an ugly truth that this country still would love to deny ever existed.
Whether anyone denies it or not, RACISM is and will always be knitted into American fabric.
The cops and Gates simply acted like the self-absorbed, sanctimonious stuffed-shirt knuckleheads they sometime tend to be.
Yes, let’s talk about racism and all the other isms that plaque this country. The conversation is way overdue. If you cringe at the word racism or the idea that people are racist, then take a few history courses and get over it.
I can end this right now, yeah mr black man i am a racist cause i am a white male in the US. Yep, i shreak when other black guys are around, because of people like you. Oh and yeah i created AIDS in my basement to kill off the black men cause i have penis envy.
All you overly aggressive black dudes and chicks need xanax! Thank God some of you african-americans are realizing the old ways won’t work anymore, and to you i say AMEN! Time to —>move on…and advance your lives past rapping, basketball(quoting from Obama btw), and paranoid angry black men with a stage.
I was right for not voting for this man. My thoughts were that he didn’t have enough expreince to be president. He didn’t know all the facts and called the police officer stupid. See who looks stupid now! This guy is running our county. Someone please help us.
Once you realize that you’re in someone’s house–someone who is lawfully in his house–you need to get the hell out!! I don’t care if Gates asked the officer what color undies he was wearing–at that point the officer was trespassing!!
How much more of prez osama are you going to take America???? He could kill someone on LIVE tv and supporters would say “Well, that person must have deserved it!” IMPEACH this idiot!
I agree, he should go back to Kenya. He’s a black and white chameleon. He is the affirmative action president and thank goodness I didn’t vote for him.
You know, many of these blogs just makes it very clear that America is still a very racist place to live, and the perpetrators and benefactors of this very racist institution are still very stubbornly steeped in denial about it. So, you give a policeman the benefit of the doubt over the president of the USA, and a college professor, Hmmm. I can tell you from some sixty years of observing these same old incidents over and over that the sentiments would be radically reversed if the president was a White person, the professor was a Whit person, and the police officer was a Black person. Are you able to see that?
You people get me…white, black, yellow purple. OBAMA MADE RACIAL SLURS AGAINST A WHITE MAN…IT IS A SHAME THE WHITES(WHICH TO ME ARE THE MINORITY NOW) NOT BLACKS OR HISPANICS..THE BLACKS ARE FOREVER YELLING RACISM ABOUT EVERYTHING..IT’S OK FOR YOU BLACKS TO DO IT, BUT LORD GOD IN HEAVEN ABOVE LET WHITE FOLK YELL RACISM & WE GET BEAT DOWN BY THE NAACP OR BULLSH** RACIST ACTIONS. WHY DON’T YOU ALL LET THE RACE PROBLEMS GO..THE ONES THAT VOTED FOR OBAMA ONLY VOTED FOR RACIAL ISSUES…YOU HAD TO BE ABLE TO SAY THAT YOUR KIND HAD THE 1ST BLACK PRESIDENT…YOU DIDN’T VOTE HIM IN TO TAKE CARE OF THE US PEOPLE OR THE COUNTRY…JUST BECAUSE HE WAS BLACK..OH EXCUSE ME..IF YOU HAVEN’T FORGOTTEN..IN OUR WORLD WE CALL PEOPLE LIKE HIM THAT ARE MIXED…HALF BREEDS..HE DOES HAVE A WHITE MOTHER. AS FOR HIM DOING A GREAT JOB AS BEING THE PRESIDENT..HE IS THE WORST PRESIDENT I HAVE SEEN SINCE JIMMY CARTER..HE LIED ABOUT EVERYTHING & HAS BROKE HIS PROMISES TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE..HE IS TURNING OUR COUNTRY INTO SH*T!!! AND TO THINK YOU ALL THOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO DO SUCH A GOOD JOB…HE IS STUPID..HE DOESN’T KNOW A DARN THING ABOUT POLITICS..JOBS…WHERE ARE THEY?? I HAVE BEEN LAID OFF FOR A YEAR & HAVE APPLIED FOR EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN..OUR UNEMPLOYMENT RATE HERE IN NC IS UP TO 13%. LIKE THE OTHERS STATED..HE IS NOT MY PRESIDENT..I WASN’T THAT IGNORANT TO VOTE FOR A BLACK MUSLIM DEMOCRAT…WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU PEOPLE THINKING..HE WILL DESTROY OUR COUNTRY. HE OWES AN APOLOGY TO THE POLICE OFFICER..VERY DISRESPECTFUL
There he goes trying to comment on something he has no idea about. He would have better served his title had he kept his mouth shut!
It just goes to show you that it is about him!!!! He is overstepping his powers by inolving himself in something that is totally out of his area of the government office!!!
Go figure, would he have it any other way!
Micro manage everything Obama!!!
The STUPID president has shown us all his true colors.
I told you so!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
The problem with “racism” is that it is deployed like an atomic bomb and it now has the totemic power that “witch” or “communist” had in times past…once you call someone a racist you are demeaning them to such a degree that there is no more point in discussion because you have said they are the lowest of the low.
The fact that this radioactive term is bandied about for everything from actual racism to ridiculous situations where an egotistical cop meets an egostical Harvard professor and bad things happen is why so many..at least myself…no longer take it seriously, because just about EVERYONE who has ever said anything even remotely negative about any minority is a “Racist”..
The boy who cried wolf…take a lesson.
The President didn’t say the officer’s were stupid, he said they acted stupidly, which they did. For the people who are saying Obama isn’t their President, well it strange that Black People in America had to accept 43 WHITE MEN as there President who only cared about Wall Street and their own pockets. So get a Life and accept the Black Man as the President. He certainly won’t do no more damage than we have had in the past.
The Officer’s should apologize to the Professor, some Officer’s think they are always right, and know every thing well in this case they were wrong to arrest a man in his home after he showed proper ID. Why not just apologize an leave.
Obama has set back race relations 10 years with his stupid “stupid” remark on wednesday…
This man, Obama, is stoking race relations in such a bad way, I expect riots to break out.
He is not the mental giant some believe him to be. Maybe he is still on those drugs he claims he took…..mandatory drug testing for all politicians!
You people are too stupid to live. First of all, if you think Barack Obama is a citizen of Kenya, just jump off a cliff. The world will be better without your type of ignorance.
He showed his ID. It should have been over. Arresting someone for breaking into his own house? It is stupid. There’s nothing “post-racial” about saying so. And it’s impossible to BE “post-racial” in a very racial world. Sorry to burst that bubble. What’s incredibly racial are all the comments on here accusing the President of playing the “race card” and whatever nonsense. You all need mirrors to look into, so you can truly understand your own ugliness.
Obama is great .. and you republicans keep crying for power… YET YOU DONT HAVE NONE AHAHHAHAHAHAA
This has turned a lot of people off on BO, big time. Why does a president have to get involved in a petty routine arrest anyway? Doesn’t he have better things to do? Because he is a racist and the arrest of any black man by a white man offends him. BO shoots of his mouth without even knowing the facts. And the facts clearly show that this arrogant racist black Harvard “scholar” was extremely rude and belligerent to the police who were only doing their job looking after HIS property. If it was a real burglar and they did nothing, they would also be accused of racism. Can’t win if you are white. But now we see that our socialist emperor has no clothes and underneath he is a RACIST.
After reading all these posts, come on, it is not about black, white, yellow or what ever color or race! The Pres shouldn’t comment on something that is so far out of his office. He should have avoided commenting and his staffers should have protected him.
As Pres you just don’t let your self go that far, Next he’ll be commenting and jdging American Idol!!!!
You may be the Pres, but it doesn’t make it right to overstep your bounds.. Think before you speak sir, and pick those battles you know you can win!
You have to serve all the people, that is why you are the Pres!!!!
Oh, so many haters. Chill out haters! LOL. I love reading these comments, it perfectly illustrates Winston Churchill’s famous quote:
“The best arguement against democracy is a five-minute conversation with average voter.”
Please, please continue! LOL.
Everybody has an opinion even if your were not there. Some neighborhood watch they have there. If you are going to be nosey at least know what the heck you are talking about before you go calling the police.
For those of you complaining about Obama’s comments I want you to know that that until someone comes in your home and makes you feel as if they are raping you in front of your family members and fondling your children, you will never understand what the real issue is where Black/White confrontations concerning police do occur.
As a Black man, sometimes it just does not seem to matter how nice you are trying to be with an officer if they are an idiot. I have witnesed an officer scratching his balls right in front of me and my sister in law while writing a ticket for a minor traffic violation.
How are you supposed to respect them when they are not giving you any respect? I’m not saying all officers are the same but the bad behavior of a few makes it difficult to see or trust the good ones that should stand out.
There had to be a point in the dialogue where it became very clear to the police officer who the owner of the home was.
At that point the reason for the call to the residence for a possible burglary has now been resolved. Why then, would you ask the resident to step out of his own home? To embarrass him in front of his neighbors?
He apparently was not a physical threat so what was the purpose?
It’s not a question of this man being a scholar or an arrogant bastard. It is a matter of being a citizen and not being treated with the respect that you deserve as a law abiding citizen. Everyone gets lost in the color of things rather than the principal of matters. Hindsight being twenty twenty everybody thinks they know what should have been said or done but when you are in the moment it’s not as simple as it sounds.
For example, you don’t know how you really would react if someone put a weapon in your face or threatened you with bodily harm. You can talk about what you would do all day long but until it happens and you react, it’s just talk.
It takes two to tango and maybe Gates said something he should not have said but the fact remains, he was in his house and after that primary question was addressed, it should have been obvious that the officer was no longer needed.
My sister had a swat team mistakenly enter her home with laser guided weapons drawn on her small children. (SMALL CHILDREN)!!! She’s not a Rhodes scholar but damn sure deserves the same respect and it will never be on the national news but this sh*t happened. No apology was ever given for the swat team breaking and entering into her home.
With all of the technological advances we have I’m sure you can look up on the Internet and find out where professor Gates lives. Point being, so could the police. So once an ID was provided what additional conversation or confirmation is required?
As for the last idiot who said you’re not my president, you are absolutely right. Barack Obama is not your leader, IGNORANCE IS YOUR LEADER.
you stupid people dont get it… get arrested in your own house then tell me how you feel… OBAMA WINS AGAIN
How the hell the officer to know that was his own house he is breaking into? If it wasn’t that he thinks he’s a bigshot, Harvard and friend of Barack Obama, he would produce documentation showing that indeed he lives there, but noooo….he became agitated because how dare a white racist officer dare to question HIM…..doesn’t the man know who HE is???
And the thing about racial profiling is bullshit. How the hell anyone can do the job if they don’t profile. So you going out there stopping every whites, or asians for being illegal immigrants and leave the latinos alone? Stupid.
ITS OBVIOUS THAT NOT ONE PERSON WHO COMMENTED HAS A CLUE ABOUT HOW THIS SITUATION WENT DOWN, BUT HEY LETS BE HONEST DOES THAT EVEN MATTER. HELL NO, ALL U CAN SEE IS THE FACT THAT A BLACK MAN(EXCUSE ME I MEAN NIGGA)IS STANDING UP TO A WHITE MAN(WHO THINKS HE IS GOD). FOR GOD SAKES HE GAVE THE OFFICER HIS ID WITH PROOF OF RESIDENCY, I GUESS HE WAS SUPPOSED TO GIVE UP HIS PRIDE, HIS INTEGRITY, AND HIS SPIRIT TOO.. THE REAL TRUTH IS U ARE THE RACIST COWARDLY BIGOTS HIDING BEHIND YOUR COMPUTER SCREENS AND BADGES, PISSED OFF BECAUSE A BLACK MAN(EXCUSE ME I MEAN NIGGA) IS IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND HAD THE NERVE TO CALL OUT THE STUPIDITY OF A WHITE MAN. IF IT HAD BEEN THE OTHER WAY AROUND YOU WOULD HAVE NOT SAID A WORD. I CAN UNDERSTAND IT THOUGH, IF IT WAS UP TO U BLACK PEOPLE(EXCUSE ME I MEAN NIGGAS)WOULD BE BACK IN THE COTTON FIELDS AND SHINING SHOES FOR A PENNY.
So here we go… cop says Gates was being belligerent towards him eventhough he (Gates) was at that point INSIDE HIS OWN HOUSE. Makes sense that anyone would be belligerent about the fact that this cop was trying to arrest him even after it was clear there was no burglary and that the guy was in his own house… from the moment the cop verified Gates was on PRIVATE property, the cop had no further reason to be there, let alone arrest him! Why didn’t he enter the house to arrest him, if in fact Gates was doing something illegal (mouthing off = illegal?) Being “verbally abusive” towards a cop while you’re in your home is certainly protected speech, and is definitely not illegal! Key distintion people… gates was on PRIVATE property, who cares if he was impolite to the cop? I hope Gates sues his ass for every dime (more like penny) that he’s worth! And for all you Obama haters who can’t see past your hate… eat your heart out!! Too bad ‘rod mizer”, he IS your president (and mine by the way) and there ain’t shit you can do about it!!
Police in America file police reports that are inconsistent with the facts every day. The police unions always backs up the police accused of false statements, even when the evidence against them is great. The police have lawyers to deal with charges of filing false statements, and even when there is proof that the police statements are false, the police get away without penalty. The police know that anything they do, even if wrong, is protected by “qualified immunity”.
If only Gates was smart enough to have audio and video surveillance in his home at all times, he would be vindicated. There is no requirement to identify yourself unless arrested, and “reasonable suspicion” is not enough for a police officer. The main question is why did the police officer leave the house if he still suspected Gates? The answer is clear–the police officer knew that he had the wrong guy before he left the house. Then, Gates followed him and the police officer got angry, finally arresting Gates for embarrassing him in front of the neighbors despite that he had entered Gates’ home without a warrant.
As it is now, the white people are giving accordance to the white over black, police over civilian power structure, and are claiming that the policeman must be right.
Obama has shown his true colors nationally, its sad, and its such a waste of a historic chance to show people are just people, color should not matter. If your an ass your an ass, a criminal a criminal, a president a president…………
im proud of the officer standing behind his arrest, and legally did nothing wrong. Race was not the issue. it was racial hate that fueled this but towards the officer, and a law professor who knows the system, and is upset that he was unable to throw his own weight and pride around. i beg all of you to stand up for the officer because if you dont he will pay for this with his career, and his family, for properly doing his job, and honoring his profession. He up held the law that public and law maker who serve the public chose to make. the law does not say there are exceptions for people of color, power, or friends of the president. and enfocing it does not warrant “the officer acted stupidly”
obama has injured lawenforcement accross the country, and crippled the ability of the men and women of the badge to do there swarn duties to protect the public, but making the right actions taken a racist act.(such as questioning and identifyinf a possible burglary suspect) In fact the way the police call came out i think gates should be thankful he wasnt hels at gunpoint or tazed. the officer showed great resolve and concern to do the right thing in all aspects of his investigation.
god bless our police officers that protect us from harm and sometimes even ourselves, and i thank them for the job they do that allow us to enjoy the rights that we take for granted. god bless our counrty, we need it in these times.
Not Obahmas smartest comment…
But, the professor did appear to have that racist’s chip on his shoulder. Besides, he should had been happy they responded that way, what if it were one of his brotherly thugs breaking in for real as i imagine is common in most communities throughout the world where there are his people.
Vnohara
I praise you for the comment that you made to the racist woman that is calling herself an African American. The blacks want to be known in the US as African Americans…There isn’t a damn one that would ever go live in Africa & Never has. They are too dumb to go back & read history..they forget that their own people sold them into slavery..yes the blacks sold the blacks into slavery & they wont let me have my damn rebel flag which stands for MY WHITE HERITAGE, BECAUSE THAT SUPPOSEDLY WAS A RACIAL WAR ALSO..READ THE FACTS AGAIN ON HOW MANY BLACKS FOUGHT IN THE CIVIL WAR. You know they talk about the white cop & being racist..let me tell you I have been visiting my husband in Federal Prisons for quite a few years..when I visit..my husband & myself & maybe another couple are white…the prison population is the highest within the black communities in all the prisons in the United States…over 85%..whites account for 3 to 4%…So who does WHAT???????????? LOOK AT THE STATISTICS PEOPLE & NO IM NOT RACIST..JUST TIRED OF BEING BLAMED FOR SHIT THAT HAPPENED OVER 200 YEARS AGO & HAVING TO PAY FOR ALL WELFARE RECIPIENTS THAT’S TOO SORRY TO WORK OR HAS 5 OR MORE KIDS, BUT THEN THEY ARE OUT HERE DRIVING AROUND IN NEW VEHICLES…SELLING DRUGS..LOOK AT THE STATISTICS PEOPLE
Man, some people just don’t get it, that professor was all preaching about what black people have to go thru, news flash, anyone else that isn’t a prominent figure would have been arrested and probably prosecuted. Be glad you are prominent. If I berated an officer I would have been thrown in the cruiser, I would have complained and no one would have listened! The president wouldn’t have cared. The mayor wouldn’t have called. Sure wish the professor would learn that he is being a racist by assuming that us poor white folk don’t get the same treatment. And NOBODY CARES!
That said there IS racial profiling and there are cops that like it or not are biased against color. I just hate that this buffoon acts like he has been done wrong because he is black. I went thru the same thing many years ago, a cop was talking to me and all I had to do was answer him and show him my license and I would have been on my way, but I chose to be indignant and verbally hostile. Alas, I spent six hours fuming but many years later I understand I was young and stupid. It was my fault, I got no call from the mayor, no cop bashing from the president, what the hell?
This guy is an older guy, I was young and stupid, what was his excuse for being a jackass?
Im a black 20 year old female,I think that some things are better left unsaid, and when you put yourself in a position of authority, you then put yourself in a position of being a fair person, a person who keeps sight of your job, apologize obama for offending the whites, offending 75% of blacks and all other races that want an end to racism..its simply hate for no reason at all, Vice Versa the situation would have caused the same reaction if someone for the people, seems not to be for the people…I love that we have a black man for president. But I also loved that we had a honest, faith filled, hope filled, caring, compassionate, understanding leader. Though im having trouble taking his side on alot of things, Stand by your president, BUT voice your opinions. That is exactly what i feel im doing by saying, NO ONES’ PERFECT, that doesnt make him racist… but that was wrong!
THIS IS SO STUPID. If you get arested for being in your own home THAT IS STUPID!!!!!!! YOU RIGHT WING IDIOTS how can you possibly draw anything else from what Barack Said. DAMN I HATE REPUBLICANS THEY DONT LISTEN. They spin everything.
Hah! Rely on the same witnesses who described Professor Gates as two big black men. Real smart.
THIS IS SO STUPID. If you get arested for being in your own home THAT IS STUPID!!!!!!! YOU RIGHT WING IDIOTS how can you possibly draw anything else from what Barack Said. DAMN I HATE REPUBLICANS THEY DONT LISTEN. They spin everything.
Poor you Krystal you wish you had a place so you could ask some people to leave if they so hated it. Thereafter, because of your impeccability, you let others in. The trouble with your thinking is that you don’t even know where you are, and you have lived in that little mental closet until the police saga caused your thing to implode. Do you remember the professor that taught you that it was human to practice racial prejudice just because you were X and Y? Your cohort drifted from the premise of the police thing, when he finally stopped, he said Obama did not hear all the facts before his description of the police conduct as stupid. Good, but he did not need to have all the facts to conclude that arresting a homeowner at his home was nothing short of stupidity. By the way, the President is simply an intelligent person politics or no politics he is bent on remaking this nation that has been torn apart by hopeless racial prejudices.
Last year’s headline: “Police Unions to Endorse Obama”
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/9/22/94649/9250
This year’s headlone: “Obama Throws America’s Cops Under the Bus”
Next year’s headline: “Police Response Slow in Black Neighborhoods”
Wow – it is amazing that anyone would believe that a burglary would answer the door for the cops!!! Be real– abuse of power. Police are supposed to be trained to defuse situations and this cop made no attempt to do so. I agree with Obama. Stupidity!!!! Is it too much for the cop to explain the situation and then apologize for the inconvenience?? Oh my bad, cops are never wrong and it would be UnAmerican to apologize for a simple misunderstanding. I think they both over reacted but the cop is the professional in this situation.
disorderly conduct is a petty misdemeanor and it can be a crime on your own property, because gates caused the public to view and be alarmed by his actions, he drew negative attention to himself. and being a very minor infraction from a powerful man, with strong political and community ties, the president himself, the mayor. does anyonr realy think the charges would be pursued, especially after the race card was played and accepted by our own president? the charges were dropped because od a da or a politcal influence!!! in hopes of making this go away, and saving a mans reputation or record. its not right but it is sad to so where or systems integrity breaks down.
Some of these statements from black people are definitely racist. Let that go. Just look at the facts of it all. People always pullting hte race card. Shameful. By pulling the race card, you are stepping all over what Martin Luther King Jr. stood for. vv
If charges are “dropped all the time,” if it’s not “worth the hassle,” then why make the arrest in the first place?
Mary,
I applaude you playing the devils advocate, it always makes one have to think even if they do not respond. I always try to be an optimist, and at times get ridiculed for being so ‘stupid’ or ‘dumb’. What I do know, is that education is my responsibility, everyone tells lies and truths, and life is NOT rational or logical, especially in the JUDICIAL system. One day go to court, Juvy Court is the beso, pick a case or two and attend it through it’s conclusion. Hopefully you will walk away with a wealth of knowledge and empathy for ANY police officer and the WALL they are up against. It is NOT uncommon that an officer is still in the station writing their report for an arrest and before he/she is done, the person they had arrested is released. For reasons other than guilt; like low on their priority list of crimes to prosecute and not enough DA to handle the case loads, so a plee bargain or probation is administered. How would you feel, if you did a job – you hand it to your Boss – your Boss throughs it in a trash can in front of you – hardly even reviewing it and tells you it not good enough do it over, without feedback about what was wrong. Imagine everday, you battle those who need your assistance, those who hate your existence, those make you defend your every action and those who deny your humanness. Could you go back to work every day.
Take a ride-a-long in court or in a cop car. There’s good and bad in all of us.
When I was a young man, I thought about being a police officer, but as I grew older and wiser, I decided to attend high school instead…sorry, this is only a joke a white guy once shared with me! He also told me the one about “Do da bus stop here” and “come on back.” Us white guys have a great sense of racial slur humor you know? And what about those Grand Praire, Texas police officers using their city computers to email racial jokes? Sounds like Bobby White is alive and kicking and has a new job at the Grand Praire police deparment… So why should President Obama stand up for African American friends, especially one that he personally knows? That is down right loyal of him, isn’t it? He personally can’t know how a white cop treats African Americans, can he? All of us whites know that white cops are all good old boys, right? I mean they never arrest us for breaking racial hate crimes, do they? They never arrrest us when we illegally hire the illegal Mexicans and don’t pay them minimum wage, social security, overtime, or fringe benefits, do they? See they can’t be all that bad, I mean they use their discretion to allow us to get away with all of these crimes that are against the laws of our beloved country, right? We need to stop Obama, the Meskins and everyone who wants to change the way we run OUR country, right? After all the U.S. constitution and the Declaration of Independence both say that all White guys were created equal and that we have the unalienable right to pursuit of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and that includes discriminating against all non whites and females and gays and other freaks, right? If not I am going back to Europe where it is ok to be a Racist. I mean they let Hitler make soap of the Jews over there, right? So why can’t we make the blacks pick our cotton and do all those dirty jobs that us whites are too good to do, right? And why can’t we make the illegal alien meskins pick fruits and veggies and be waiters and mow our lawns and wash our cars and clean our houses and take care of our kids, after all that is all they are good for, most of them never even finished the first grade, right? Obama the black man American President just needs to learn to take it and keep his freaking over sized lips shut, right? Power to the superior white race, right? NOT!
I hope this helps you see how stupid you sound…
God is my source, not man or anything of this world. People make bad choices sometimes and have to live with the consequences. Man will let you down everytime, so have faith in God. Pray for others, even those who
mistreat or talk about you and those people whom you can stand or don’t like or even understand them. Save yourself and not worry about the world system get into God’s system. Be blessed.
If the cops arrested anyone for going into their own home, they were in the wrong, and acted stupidly. but who knows it all wasnt a manufactured story to cover up something else…
OBAMA IS GOING TO BE THE END OF THE WORLD..HE IS FAILING IN SUCH A SHORT TIME…HE HAS NO CLUE WHAT HE IS DOING..BUT HE IS TAKING A TRIP TO MARTHA’S VINEYARD NEXT WEEK FOR VACATION…VACATION!!!!! HE NEEDS TO WORRY ABOUT THE US ECONOMY & BEING THE DAMN PRESIDENT..I DIDN’T VOTE FOR HIS ASS THIS TIME & I WON’T VOTE FOR HIM NEXT TIME..I THINK YOU WILL ABLE TO CALL HIM A ONE TERMER PREZ..HE WILL NOT WIN THE NEXT ELECTION…DEMOCRATS ARE ALL OVER HIS ASS NOW..I HOPE YOU PEOPLE THAT VOTED FOR HIM ARE HAPPY…CAUSE HIS SHIT IS GOING TO EFFECT YOUR LIVES AS MUCH AS ANYONE ELSE’S…ANTICHRIST
As I sit here and read all of the posts here about how Mr. Gates acted towards the police and how out of line he was for yelling and screaming at the police, I sit and wonder how many of you have YOUR facts straight. It was reported by 2 different news networks that the yelling and screaming came AFTER Mr. gates SHOWED the officer “IDENTIFICATION” Now, common sense would tell the police that MR. Gates was in HIS OWN HOME. Therefore, that should have been the end of it. The police, then, asked for him to step outside…why? Could it be so that he would have a reason to make an arrest? After showing “IDENTIFICATION” the matter should have been done and over with. End Of Discussion> President Obama said that the Police acted “Stupidly”. He NEVER called the police “STUPID”. If you were confronted (after you are inside your OWN home and you showed the police Identification) and you wre still harassed, would you be irritated? I’m quite sure you would be.
I think all white people that believe that they are better than another race is crazy, and if you think black people are going to go back to being slaves, you got another thing coming! If you people don’t stop all this racist stuff there is going to be a civil war in the United State. Then this county will be just like the countries that our soldiers are fighting and dying for.If this happens, then all the blood that was shed to free the people in the other countries will be in vain, Is this what you people want? Why can’t we just live in this world together and let God do the seperating when he comes back?
After all these comments, nobody can deny that America is a racist country.
KKK is allowed to exist and anarrogante police is all you need for people tell that the cop not the professor was right. Gates was inside his house, presented an id and after comprobation that was his residence , he was arrested anyway, for PUBLIC Disorder? mmm after luring him outside.. nice whityies….
Ignorance seems more bliss than ever. Have any of you in your personal life ever been accused or harrassed by someone in authority who was totally in the wrong? None of you? Cmon think my fellow bloggers and you will come up with many circumstances in which you were right (in your own home) and in your right to tell someone in higher authority they were wrong and in every instance you will be cited for a different offence didnt jaywalk well i saw you litter wasnt speeding well you taillights broken. Or why are you in this neighborhood if your black or followed for blocks if your black or pulled for no reason if your black a little empathy until you become black. i think Mr gates is liking the attention and media who doesnt surely repuluicans and dems alike hog the camera he wants his 15 for his dignified accomplishments. How many times do we tell our freinds what happened and they stick up for us. Obama knows this man personally. You wouldnt comment about a personal freind who was wrongfully accused of breaking in his own home as high as mortage payments are nowadays? I would twitter it my space it facebook it and tell it on the mountain. This again isnt a black white issue like many of you are taking sides ignorantly. Its about a man in his home the last place you can shoot a intruder and be legally correct you HOME is a sanctuary. To have anyone come in accuse you of breaking in is like spitting in your face . Is everyone sure the officer didnt say anything provocative to the homeowner? They would have taken me off my porch in cuffs too after i prove im the taxpayer and you still harrassing me because i want your badge number? from a homeowner.
Obama put hhis foot in his mouth by mouthing off without all the facts. Makes him sound like the racist
What a disappointment our President showed how stupid he certainly is. I wish this had happened before election day. He certainly would not have gotten my vote. Police Officers everywhere in this country will have to think twice before doing their job. Perhaps it will cost them their lives – thanks to the White House. Mr. Gates should have thanked the officer for coming out to his house to check on the reported break-in & Mr. Obama should apologize to the officer & all law enforcement.
HE IS NOT A BLACK MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE. HE IS A HALF N HALF.
H I S “M O T H E R” W A S “W H I T E” A S “W H I T E” C A N BE !!!
Obams being a helf n half has nothing to do whatsoever with him being qualified to be President.
He is certainly not that.
We have an totally unqualified person in the white house.
He has no clue about what is going on. He ha handed everthing over to a bunch of Chicago Mobsters to figure out for him.
His administration is so crooked it would make Al Capone look like a glowing ANGEL.
He knew nothing about the situation and shoudl have not said anything. Then this whole thing woudl not have even been brought up.
Lesson learned….keep your mouth SHUT if you do not know what you are talking about. He was not there, you were not there, but I do understand many witnesses were there and heard it all. The truth will be told.
It is pretty damn bad when a police officer can’t do his job without being screamed and hollered at for simply trying to answer a call and doing his damn job.
UNREAL…If he had not come to the mans house to answer the call that was called in, I guess the man would said that the police department does not care about his safety because he is black.
Black folks are the ones that are RACIST. They prove it every single day.
There are a few that are not. But…a very limited few ! I am very grateful for them !
Get over yourselfs people.
Obama needs to get over himself. HE IS NOT GOD !!!
Are you crazy? Obama makes Bush look like an idiot. At least Obama HAS press conferences. Bush avoided them–for good reason–he was an idiot.
The “stupid” remark was unfortunate, but Obama admitted he didn’t know the facts of the case and today, called the responding officer an excellent cop. Yet Obama also simply told the truth–there are many, many instances of racial profiling. This is a fact. That’s why police academies include training on how to avoid it.
And even though the responding policeman didn’t like Obama’s comment, he still said he “supports the President 110%.”
I guess you forgot about that.
Now President Obama is a racist you people are so damn ignorant, if the shoe was on the other foot you would not think this way just wait until your ass is arrested for stupid shit. Just because we have a African American President does not mean that racism does not exist. It is still racism in this pitiful society rather you want to believe it or not. It was wrong for the officers to act in this manner just like they shoot and kill african americans because they feel like it. We are sick and tired of being the target for police officer when ever they have a burr up their ass. So call President Obama a racist if you will however, don’t forget your are a racist for even thinking about making the comment.
So when the police are arresting you think about it.
I read almost every post i can stand to read. Why are you all so bitter. You lost the election White house Obama is your president and no one could make bush look good except a mass murdering dictator who started a war to sell munitions and raise stocks for haliburton inc and all the other people who have gotten rich over warfare from Rockefeller’ s JP Morgans on up selling broken rifles to the union. I digress all you patriots who say Obamas not your pres grab your gun and march in the street like the IRANIANS who at least have the balls to put it all on the LINE but you slugs talk and blog your rascist veiws like Obama had the cushy welfare life and didnt earn his place being two times as good at everything to move up the ladder. Forget health care Obamma didnt screw it up in the first place !!! Get some IRANIAN ballsacks .forget men arrested in their homes.. every comment Obama makes is wrong to 99 percent of you cuase your bitter and you have 3 more years to feel like that. So blog on cowards or march in the street with your guns.If you do dont let the cop that arrested Gates catch you cause he will put two in your head for unlawful assembly and it will be by the book. I will support him and he wont appologize at your funeral. This is America love it or leave it buddy isnt that what we told the unpatriotic vietnam protesters well you unpatriotic losers are a worst treasonous lot and should be lined up for target practice. I have heard some things from you bloggers that wouldnt be said about a man who is this countries president.
Again Obama shows off his ignorance
gee! You guys are just so frustrated that not knowing what to do…you are just waiting for a slightest chance to show the internal hatred you have for Mr. Obama. If he were a white president, it wouldnt make news! Gee! I read some of this posts here and it tells a lot about American Hypocrisy. That racism is something that will still go a very long way….It is a shame. But and this is a crucial qualification, guy, you need to know if your hatred for Obama is only because he is black, you have to admit that racism is indeed cognitive incapacity…deal with it…
You know, it’s hilarious; the same Obama Party posters that scream “racist” at everything have nothing to say about this.
“White and Kinney both testified Kilpatrick used the F-word in describing them while urging his security detail to get them off the porch. They said the mayor also made racial remarks about her and White.
“You’re a black woman,” Kinney quoted the mayor as telling her. “You should be ashamed of yourself being with a man with the last name white. You should not be a part of this.”
White is white. Kinney and Kilpatrick are black.”
http://www.wwj.com/pages/2788316.php?
Then again, Barack Obama endorses and supports Kilpatrick and his racist attitudes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZNvC_-RW2Q
Obama also supports the teachings of Leonard Jeffries, who regularly makes anti-Semitic slurs and insists that personality is based on the amount of melanin in the skin.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YTQ0YjhlOGVhYjQ0OWRhZjI2MmM4NTQ4NGM5Mjg0MzU=
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n16_v43/ai_11239116/
Perhaps they really don’t see what’s wrong with this.
Everybody on here is acting (no are) STUPID, except me and a very few others. (and Obama)
Obama’s true colors are now showing. He makes a comment without knowing the facts. He judged a police officer and automatically sided with his Harvard buddy. He had no business making any comment about what happened. Gates probably figured he’ll contact Obama and cause a ruckus. And he did. I truly believe Obama has a chip on his shoulder and he’s going to bring our country down. We need to pray. We really need to pray.
WOW!! I am reading all of this and I am shocked! Post racisim? Did you guys watch the same election I did? I saw people of every color supporting a black man, but I saw only white people supporting the white canidate. He was elected because of his race and because the majority of white people are not racisit. Not so on the other side of the coin. Do we in America celebrate White month. No that would be “wrong”. Can we have all white schools? There seems to be alot of black ones. There are plenty of black only groups that whites would not be able to emulate or be considered racisit. We are all aware of this difference or this racisim but even to mention this is considered wrong. In a true non-racist country the rules would be equal to all–
you white people make the world slow down and some day it will stop running so you can stop it and get the hell off of it when you had w in the white house you were havin orgasm everday blinded by the fact that he wasnt the only one gettin screwed white people your clocks are winding down get use to it its your turn the world doesnt belong to you
I think Crowley missed an opportunity to call a spade a spade in his interviews today. I would have loved to hear him respond to Obama’s comments by saying, “Brutha can suck my D**K.”
I agree with with Astroturph lets blame it all on Bush like everything else.
Our supposed president is playing the race how sickening!!!
This would be funny if it weren’t so serious and revealing of the mindset of these true racists (reverse racism is racism). As the story unfolds we find that Officer Crowley certainly knows how to deal with racially oriented encounters. Check out this link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090723/ap_on_re_us/us_harvard_scholar_disorderly
He has taught a class for 5 years on understanding racial profiling. And is considered to be a role model to young police recruits.
This issue does not need to be swept away. BO is way out of line in showing blatant disrespect for someone else in authority. And also by empowering those who profit and thrive by ever playing the “victim.”
Racism, like a knife, cuts both ways…
Dave in SoCal, Thanks for posting the link to the police report.
Mary Contrary, Do you really believe what you are saying or do you just get a kick out of being contrary? I spent a few years in a police uniform back in the 1970s so let me try to explain the charge of Disorderly Conduct (or Disturbing the Peace). To begin with a police officer cannot by law be offended by words no matter how loud or disparaging. However, if there are ordinary citizens about to be disturbed by the actions or words of a person, then the charge of disorderly conduct can (and should be) used to make an arrest of someone who has let his mouth overload his good sense. If you bother to read the police report, Gates followed the officer outside and continued to yell at the officer and call the officer a racist. There were at least 7 civilians gathered on the sidewalk watching and hearing Gates’ rant. It was at this time that the arrest was made and it should have been. As to the dismissal of the charges. Well, police make arrests and write reports. Prosecuting attorneys decide which charges to take to court and which to dismiss. This happens everyday in every jurisdiction in this country. If every lawful arrest case was taken to court and prosecuted the back log would be years long in every jurisdiction. Just because a case is dismissed does not mean it was without merit.
Soyotamor is a Racist – now Obama is a Racist – boy how tough it must be to be WHITE HuH?
PRESIDENT OBAMA IS VERY RACISTS AGAINST BLACKS, UNLESS THEY ARE HARVARD EDUCATED, HE USED THE POOR BLACKS JUST LIKE HE USED THE YOUNG WHITES, AND MIDDLECLASS WHITES TO GET ELECTED. NOW HE ACT AS IF ILLEGALS ELECTED HIM BY THEMSELVES.
I AM BLAK AND HENRY LOUIS GATES IS ONE OF THOSE MIDDLE CLASS BLACKS THAT THINK HE IS BETTER THEN THE POOR ONES LIKE OBAMA. SO I DON’T CARE.
BUT THE WHITES ON THIS BOARD ARE THE SAME WHITE FOOLS THAT HAVE ELECTED ALL WHITE SENATE FOR 150 YEARS, NOW SELLING THEM OUT TO ILLEGALS AND CORPORATIONS. THEY HAVE TO CALL AND BEG, AND THANK, THE SENATORS, FOR VOTING AND REPRESENTING THEM. SO TO CALL SOMEONE RACIST IS A JOKE, YOU WHITES ARE SO RACISTS YOU VOTED WHITE UNTIL YOU BECAME CORPORATE SLAVES.
It seems like this whole “debate” has moved from whether or not the comment that the president made was appropriate to about a situation where he admits that he did not have all the facts and has become an unnecessary racial debate that simply exposes the fact that there are many in this country who are not comfortable with racial issues or even the discussion of the possibility of racial profiling.
If you have a problem with our president being black, then deal with it. Please don’t drag it out into some “debate” simply because having a black/African American president makes you feel uncomfortable.
Race relations (positive and/or negative) are part of life. Too many of us have tried to pretend that they don’t exist. But they do, every day and it’s about time we accept them.
I was born and raised in MI. I am a black female and one of my best friens is a ( He calls himself a white male) but he’s 1/2 German & 1/2 Chinese and looks like a more hansome version of Keanue Reeves (younger version). I can tell you from dealings at our jobs and personal lives that racism is ubfortunately present. He used to complain about how people had problems with him because he was German. Now since the problems on recalls from China he get asked what part of china is he from. Ok… he grew his hair out and looks more Asian with out the shot cut but what the Heck? An I had know a friend for over 13 years. We had started living together as house mates. His parents didn’t know I was in the house. They were picking up something with his brother whom I had dated (they are German American). The father sid I don’t know why he let her move in you know when they do you can’t get rid of them. And I have seen white guys get in the face of City Police screeming and yelling all kinds of stuff and not go to jail.
Presidents have said tons of stuff about everyone. And the last one told everyone where the secret base in the mountains was… So all presidents have looked at the world based on their backgrounds. This is the first time there has been a visible minority in the place. So his experiences are different than the quote typical American is familiar. Hey what other President’s Vice President has ever said his partner Spoke so well and dressed so implying difference. When Colin Powell was in the White House it was mentioned by news carters that “he speaks so well”.
I’ve heard that as well about myself. It’s something you say to small children or someone learning english for the first time.
To wrap this up everyone will always think differently but Obama never said the officer was rasist. The implication is made by others. As with my cases stated above you run across racism when your in it. An until you experience it you can’t really comment on the validity of what another perceives.
LOL. So many people replying on this blog want the black guy to fail so badly that they shout and jump around every time he says or does anything you can latch onto. It’s pathetic, really, considering the previous eight years of total incompetence we’ve been subjected to as a nation.
Obama’s remark was dumb simply for the fact that a president shouldn’t be wading into local issues like this. Of course, I have a sneaking suspicion that if 99% of the people reading and responding to this blog were president, they would say an awful lot more insanely stupid things in their first month than Obama ever will in his entire political career.
The difference is, he’s standing there in a place where people listen to everything he says (and often doesn’t say). Nobody really cares about a bunch of over-reactionary bloggers stroking their own fantasies about everyone suddenly realizing that they were right all along about the black guy in the white house screwing everything up.
My advice, for what it’s worth: Save your load for if/when he ACTUALLY does something seriously wrong. If you get all hot and bothered over dumb crap like this, nobody will listen when it counts. I think there was a story about a little boy and a wolf that illustrates this point.
See, this is why we in this county can’t get pass racism. We all are too quick to point fingers and play one upsy. WE ARE NOT READY YET! Just think of all the lives that have been lost and destroyed because of this nonsense. So back under the rock we all go. Maybe in another 200 years we’ll get it right. What a shame! With all of the things going on in this country…Hello stay focus…economy, jobs, health care, remember?!?!
I worked for 10 years in a treatment center for people that had trouble with assaultive behavior. One thing that we were trained on ALL OF THE TIME was to be extremely aware of body lang(posturing, ect) and the rate and rythum of speach. As this is a key indicator when someone is escalating to assaultive behavior. To keep the person, yourself and bystanders safe, you are to intervien early before it becomes a dangerous situation. I am sure that the police are also trained in this. Also how proud should anyone be of the way people act today. I have appreciated the police assisting me to the emergency room after I took a threat as someone blowing off steam and walked away only to be followed and attacked!
Posted by: Marlene | Friday, July 24, 2009 at 01:00 AM
“I AM BLAK AND HENRY LOUIS GATES IS ONE OF THOSE MIDDLE CLASS BLACKS THAT THINK HE IS BETTER THEN THE POOR ONES LIKE OBAMA. SO I DON’T CARE.”
Okay… is it funny to anyone else that an african-american person has trouble spelling the word ‘black’?
And, if he’s a Harvard professor, somehow I don’t think Gates is what one might call ‘middle-class’.
At least Obama wouldn’t type in all caps on a blog site. I think that alone makes him better than you.
Yeap, once again it’s the white folks who are the victims here and why? Just because they want to arrest a black guy in his own house for…being in his own house! Sure is rough being a white man in America, boo-hoo.
This never would have happened if the policeman entering the home was black. He probably would have been thanked for doing his thankless job.
To all you dumb asses who voted for CHANGE, How do you like him now? When he is finished, all you will have is change.
Damn, and really liked Obama, until now. This is more like something the village idiot president would have said Lets see what kind of potion he pulls from his pocket to grease this. It better be good, and better be strong, because…the world is watching, and this is really a very serious threat to everything that he has accomplished thus far.
All you silly people will forget about this in less than a week. Save your typing energy for something more useful.
I am a white woman who is 8 months pregnant. I locked my keys in my car outside a grocery store. Even though I don’t look like I am in the high risk catergory for stealing acording to your profileing views in this forum, an officer still approached me and I was questioned because the behavior IS suspect. I was thankful that he was doing a good job and embarrased that I was an idiot forgetting my keys. I would have never dreamed of being disrespecful.
I have to say that O’Bama needs to mind the store. This is not his area of expertize. He needs to do his job and let the police do theirs. He has commented with only his “friend’s” side of the story. I saw many of sad stories that day that he never commented on. Yes, I believe HE made it racial not the officer.A black officer would have handled it the same way if the Prof. had reacted the same way. O’Bama needs to get back to his job, which I must say is lacking right now.
I voted for Obama because I was inspired by what I heard from him during his campaign.All the Hope he talked about and the change he said was going to take place once he became president I feel most Americans felt the same way at that time thats how he got to be president.
Obama had a way of bringing Hope to people after a much needed Change.
I for one was expecting some CHANGE and some HOPE! All change I see is GOVERMENT CONTROL. Do the research people! we are in for a HELL of a ride, better hang on it will only get worse!!All I wanna know is where is the HOPE WE HAD ENOUGH CHANGE!!! P.S. I SIDE WITH THE POLICE OFFCER! If it was up to Obama there would be one world order! Ring leader would be no other than>>OBAMA
A solution can be simple as allowing the Police of any city to be called out or to investigate any crime “only” if they are other than Black. Allow the Black community to police themselves. The communities will be safer without police harassment and profiling.
Don’t forget how the racist Obama screamed during his campaign about the Jena 6.
http://www.barackobama.com/2007/09/20/obama_statement_on_jena_6_rall.php
Turns out he was lying and siding with criminals there, too.
“According to Barker’s mother, Kelli, her son was taken to a hospital with cuts and with injuries to his eyes and ears after the assault. His right eye had blood clots, she said.
Parents of the Jena Six say they heard Barker was hurling racial epithets, but Barker’s parents insist he did nothing to provoke the beating……
At the hearing, attorneys representing the five men read a statement expressing sympathy to the Barkers and acknowledging that Justin Barker did not use a racial slur. They also apologized to the residents of Jena for the uproar caused by the case.”
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/26/louisiana.jena.6/index.html?iref=newssearch
Mr. Gates is not a “victim” of racism. He is simply a well educated disrespectful man playing the race card to get “his friend” the President to add to his 15 minutes of fame.
The sad thing is that Mr. Gates & Obama’s “reactive” verbal demeaning & disrespect of our law enforcement officers only promotes the attitude & behaviour not only in the black community but in all minority communities. Further, the media reporting of these types of incidences are profit motivated. Not to mention the exploitation of these incidences by prominent black and white men and women who gain public recognition and therefore increase their financial status in appearance, speaking & legal fees. Some even getting elected to gov’t positions. All the while running around under the “guise” of standing up for social justice.
Racism will unfortunately never be obliterated in America or in the world. Everybody knows that. So let’s stop focusing on the negative and have leaders who “stand up” for teaching their communities to “respect” authorities and other’s and maybe, just maybe, some of the police abuse of criminals will lessen or stop and police officers will live longer while doing their jobs. Then maybe the “real” cases of racism can be properly tried in a court of law, instead of in the media.
An opinion from a “minority” who sees the race card rising just because we have a black president.
NO ONE IS GOING TO FORGET THIS. HE WAS REALLY STUPID FOR MAKING THE RACIAL COMMENT HE DID. THE COP WAS JUST DOING HIS JOB. AND I HAVE THE SAME QUESTION?? WHY IS HE EVEN GETTING IN THE MIDDLE OF A SITUATION THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HIS PRESIDENCY? THAT IS WHY WE HAVE LAW ENFORCEMENT. NOW I HEARD HE IS GETTING INVOLVED WITH THE INVESTIGATION OF MICHAEL JACKSON’S DOCTOR. I THINK YOU PEOPLE THAT VOTED FOR HIM EXPECT HIM TO DO FOR THIS COUNTRY…IF THATS THE CASE THEN HE NEEDS TO FULFILL HIS PROMISES & QUIT GIVING THE US PEOPLE FALSE HOPE & KEEP HIS NOSE OUT OF PETTY SHIT. ID SAY HE DONE A GREAT JOB OF HIRING HILARY CLINTON TO DO WHAT SHE IS DOING..HIM & HER BOTH ARE GOING TO GET OUR ASSES KILLED..KEEP MESSING WITH NORTH KOREA. FOR THE ONE THAT MADE THE COMMENT..NOW YOU WHITE FOLK KNOWS HOW IT FEELS..WE WHITE FOLK HAVE KNOWN HOW IT FEELS FOR MANY, MANY YEARS NOW..WE DON’T GET THE LUXURIES OF HAVING 6 KIDS, A WELFARE CHECK, $700 IN FOOD STAMPS & MEDICAID & STILL SELL DRUGS & RIDE AROUND IN OUR BMW’S, CADILLACS, CHARGERS & CARS WITH 24 INCH WHEELS…WE HAVE ALWAYS HAD TO WORK OUR ASSES OFF..CAUSE WE DON’T LIVE LIKE CRIMINALS & EXPECT HANDOUTS FROM THE UNITED STATES TAXPAYERS..THE CHANGES THAT OBAMA IS MAKING IS GOING TO EFFECT YOU BLACKS AS MUCH AS ANY OTHER US CITIZEN..YOU WILL NOT BE AN EXCEPTION THIS TIME..WE DON’T RUN AROUND AS BLOODS & CRYPTS KILLING OUR OWN. YOU TALK ABOUT THE KKK..WHY CAN’T WE HAVE OUR GROUPS…THE BLACKS HAVE ALL THEIR COALITIONS…NAACP, BLACK PANTHERS, AL SHARPTON, JESSE JACKSON & MARTIN LUTHER KING WOULD NOT BE HAPPY…NONE OF YOU BLACKS TODAY FOLLOW IN THAT MAN’S FOOTSTEPS..YOU GO BEYOND THE WHOLE REASON WHY HE DID THE THINGS HE DID..WHITE PEOPLE ARE GETTING TIRED OF THE WHOLE BLACK THING. AND ALL OF YOU KEEP FORGETTING THAT OBAMA WAS RAISED BY HIS WHITE MOTHER & WHITE GRANDMOTHER…YES…FRIGGN WHITE…NOT BLACK
In response to Mike2cents on ‘race baiting’ since I’m just a white self-employed man in my forties I’m not sure what part of Prez Obama i am supposed to hate most the white half or the black half… my point is if Obama just answered the frenzy Palin hating media with a simple ‘no comment’ about a friend of his that got into a little scrap on his own property, i can imagine the conclusions that Fox news watchers would come to is that Obama doesn’t give a rats behind about his friends and can not be trusted to stand up for the poor blackies in America that have ancestors that endured over 3 hundred years of slavery in this country…. i think this is what is called “You can’t win for losing” i mean reading these comments you’d think he did something really stupid like give the German Chancellor a back rub in front of international television…. now let me see i wonder if Obama hates white people, then i consider the fact that his white grandparents raised him, and he often mentions that he owes his success in life to his World War 2 fighter plane making grandmother…hmm…. i guess you folks heard about Gov Palin up here in Alaska trying to get her trooper brother in-law fired from his $80,000 year job because she didn’t like him, now that’s what i call dumping on the police…… do i think this Sergent was a racist? NO. but the fact is any teenager that has watched 1 hr. of PBS, you know the channel with the cool nature program’s… would recognize professor Gates as a prominent fixture in PBS programing and as a well known and respected Black historian and respected spokesperson on American History… the Sergent is not a racist but he is obviously the least educated man on campus, a nice loyal cop yes, but a clod for sure.
Oh by they way who cares if we have more sick people per cap than any other western nation in the world………….. we deserve to be sick right? we are just a bunch of racist.
Nice work Barack… with one comment you managed to alienate 75% of America.
And anyone who has spent any amount of time in the “higher” education system knows the Professor Gates type: bitter, spiteful, bigoted racist with a position of power who felt emboldened to make a political statement.
This is the type of Professor who would change the subject on you when you attempt to engage in a debate- or would give you a poor grade because you actually have an opinion, and done research outside of marxist texts and such. You are fooling no one, Mr Gates.
And Mr President, is this “nuance” you’ve spoke of? “the police acted stupidly”? -please
Obama is out to rip this country to shreds in EVERY way- who can question that such ill-advised statements are divisive… and NOT helpful? He has no idea what happened, he admitted it- and apparently doesn’t care, either… he’s picked his side.
But back in reality, the childish and paranoid Gates completely baited the cop, who acted with admirable restraint, IMO… all he had to do is show his ID and shut up, he was treated with respect. This guy was clearly looking for a fight… and he ought to thank God he didn’t find one.
Obama is going to destroy race relations in this country with his vengeful “get even” mentality… some messiah- Americans should have chosen a fair and sensible human being instead of this embittered nut.
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Obama is definitely a moron, an affirmative action fraud, a racist, a liar, a Commie and an anti-american but those, both his friends and foes, who say that his response to this planted question was stupid are wrong. “So, whatever else you can say, no one is talking about healthcare today but about Gatesgate.” Hmmm… Why would this be stoopid when your goal is to pass a massive takeover of the national economy and, indeed, of all the bodily processes of every resident WITHOUT ANYONE ACTUALLY READING IT? Barry is semi-literate, dimwitted, embittered, uncertain of his sexual preference and in speaking, makes Bush sound like Cicero but this is a brilliant tactical move. Must have been Axelrod’s idea.
Since when did standing up for yourself in YOUR own home or property become disrespectful? Sine when can you not tell a cop to fuck off? I have done it several times! I am hispanic but look white, maybe that’s why I got away with it. lol The fact that your wearing a police uniform does not automatically mean I have to respect you anymore than I respect the guy in the McDonalds uniform. It’s just a job. Yet the majority of police officers walk around with this chip on their shoulder daring someone to disrespect them. I love those guys and I love pissing them off. I know the laws in my state and know what they can and can’t do. Police rely on ignorance of the law thats why they usually only abuse poor people and minorities. They take it for granted these people are ignorant of the law and know they can abuse them. I know many officers and troopers and they all tell me they hate the dash cam! I wonder why? lol I am a Special Forces Soldier who served in Afghanistan for 2 years and I’d be damned if I would have let that cop treat me like that! He would have had to call back up to get my jump boots out of his ass! Bottom line, you all know it even if you say otherwise, Mr. Gates right as a citizen were violated because he is a black man. His nieghbor called the police because he was a black man. His nieghbor in all likelyhood knew who he was, how do you live next door to someone and not recognize them? I’m sure she resents black people living in her nieghborhood. Mr.Gates had every right to be upset, you all know you would be too! Hell he was probably already in a bad mood having to “break into” his own home, then you get this moron of a police officer harrassing him and asking for his id which he does not have to provide and so on and so on….I’m sure Crowley was not polite about the situation, they never are. Police officers need to look up the definition of the word SERVANT, thats what they are and how they should behave. If Crowley couldn’t tell within seconds of arriving on the scene that Gates was no threat and in his own domicile then he needs to find other employment and Obama was 100% correct that he was stupid! Crowley did not arrest Gates for disorderly conduct, he arrested him because he was being embarrassed by Gates and a crowd was watching. A vulger display of power. I bet he wishes he had responded differently now.
All you people saying what a brave and important job the police do need a reality check, it is JUST A JOB! They are not special and should not command any more respect then you or I. Those of you justifying the police officers actions only feel that way because it didn’t happen to you or because your a racist. And Obama is the best thing to happen to our country in decades. All we have heard so far is he adopted a pure breed dog! He stated the obvious in a live broadcast that people of color have a history of being mistreated by the police! Damn him!! Maybe he should go start an illegal war or be the war criminal Bush and Cheney are maybe then he would be in line with the status quo that you support! YES WE CAN!!
HE IS NOT A BLACK MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE. HE IS A HALF N’ HALF.
H I S “M O T H E R” W A S A S “W H I T E” A S “W H I T E” C A N BE !!!
Obama being a half n’ half has nothing to do whatsoever with him being qualified to be President.
He is certainly not that.
We have an totally unqualified person in the white house.
He has no clue about what is going on. He has handed everthing over to a bunch of Chicago Mobsters to figure out for him.
His administration is so crooked it would make Al Capone look like a glowing “ANGEL”.
He knew nothing about the situation and should have not said anything. Then this whole thing would not have even been brought up.
Lesson learned….keep your mouth SHUT if you do not know what you are talking about. He was not there, you were not there, but I do understand many witnesses were there and heard it all. The truth will be told.
It is pretty damn bad when a police officer can’t do his job without being screamed and hollered at for simply trying to answer a call and doing his damn job.
UNREAL…If he had not come to the mans house to answer the call that was called in, I guess the man would said that the police department does not care about his safety because he is black.
Black folks are the ones that are RACIST. They prove it every single day.
There are a few that are not. But…a very limited few ! I am very grateful for them !
Get over yourselfs people.
Obama needs to get over himself. HE IS NOT GOD !!! He is NOT BLACK. He is a half n’ half.
I can say he is WHITE just as much as you can say he is BLACK.
How you idiots can keep saying people are upset because we have a black man in the WHITE HOUSE is beyond me. His color has nothing to do with his ability to be President.
He is just not qualified ! Period.
WBestPresidentEver What color is the sky in your world? Is being as stupid as you sound like being high?
If you can honestly say “W” was the best president ever your opinion is worthless and you are an idiot. Bush Sr. and Jr. are criminals plain and simple. History will show this. My children will be taught this in school one day mark my words. If you like Bush then you have to support thhe likes of Castro, and Chavez since they are cut from the same cloth! Not to mention Bush Jr. is probably the first President that could be legally diagnosed as retarded. I guess he set a milestone there! How you and others like you can continue to say Bush was a good president is beyond me. It speaks volumes about your ability to comprehend and your ethics. Bush was the worst thing to happen to this country since the cival war! Read a damn book for Gods sake and stop letting O’Rielley and Limbaugh form your opinions. Thay are idiots and hate mongers too! Think for yourself sheeple!!
I bet the Ace did not vote, bet he cannot read and he had his mommie write his slanted, stupid, babble.
Police in America are an embarrassment to society. Even minority cops are idiots. Police-people, and I use people in jest, are their own ethnic,racial,national, group. the clan of repressed anger combined with unbridled rage,arrogance, and little or no intelligence. I fondly refer to them as “cowards with badges.” Any questions? If you have any questions for goodness sakes, do not, under any circumstances ask any member of the blunder boys and girls club. You could be their next victim. Oh yes, has anyone noticed that this blog site favors white people? Non-biased? I think not.
I wear gold and diamonds, doubtless stole them from a pawn shop. The majority of them are probably in his/her teeth. Who cares about what you have to say, how stupid can one, uneducated, braggart be?
Thank you ANDREA for telling the truth when so many are vomiting lies and hatred.
I would never support this network of white, racist,inbred, communist.
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Good people of color, Riehl does not deserve to get off from you anger about his racism. Obviously, the nazi party is alive and well for him. Please do not give him your responses to his hatred. Has anyone noticed that he is a hate monger, bent on starting a minority against white war? Every time someone post something which is relevant, and truthful, he deletes their comment from his site. Good people of color, shut him down, end his reign of hatred and terror. All people of color who do not understand that he hates you also, keep being racist toward blacks, and people of mixed parentage. One day the hate police will visit your home.Riehl is not just a conservative, he and all merry band of Klan members are an evil entity which needs to be silenced. Join me, and shut down this monster.
Good people of color, Riehl does not deserve to get off from you anger about his racism. Obviously, the nazi party is alive and well for him. Please do not give him your responses to his hatred. Has anyone noticed that he is a hate monger, bent on starting a minority against white war? Every time someone post something which is relevant, and truthful, he deletes their comment from his site. Good people of color, shut him down, end his reign of hatred and terror. All people of color who do not understand that he hates you also, keep being racist toward blacks, and people of mixed parentage. One day the hate police will visit your home.Riehl is not just a conservative, he and all merry band of Klan members are an evil entity which needs to be silenced. Join me, and shut down this monster. Please.
Good people of color, Riehl does not deserve to get off from you anger about his racism. Obviously, the nazi party is alive and well for him. Please do not give him your responses to his hatred. Has anyone noticed that he is a hate monger, bent on starting a minority against white war? Every time someone post something which is relevant, and truthful, he deletes their comment from his site. Good people of color, shut him down, end his reign of hatred and terror. All people of color who do not understand that he hates you also, keep being racist toward blacks, and people of mixed parentage. One day the hate police will visit your home.Riehl is not just a conservative, he and all merry band of Klan members are an evil entity which needs to be silenced. Join me, and shut down this monster.Please.
Good people of color, Riehl does not deserve to get off from you anger about his racism. Obviously, the nazi party is alive and well for him. Please do not give him your responses to his hatred. Has anyone noticed that he is a hate monger, bent on starting a minority against white war? Every time someone post something which is relevant, and truthful, he deletes their comment from his site. Good people of color, shut him down, end his reign of hatred and terror. All people of color who do not understand that he hates you also, keep being racist toward blacks, and people of mixed parentage. One day the hate police will visit your home.Riehl is not just a conservative, he and all merry band of Klan members are an evil entity which needs to be silenced. Join me, and shut down this monster.Please
Good people of color, Riehl does not deserve to get off from you anger about his racism. Obviously, the nazi party is alive and well for him. Please do not give him your responses to his hatred. Has anyone noticed that he is a hate monger, bent on starting a minority against white war? Every time someone post something which is relevant, and truthful, he deletes their comment from his site. Good people of color, shut him down, end his reign of hatred and terror. All people of color who do not understand that he hates you also, keep being racist toward blacks, and people of mixed parentage. One day the hate police will visit your home.Riehl is not just a conservative, he and all merry band of Klan members are an evil entity which needs to be silenced. Join me, and shut down this monster.Please
People you were informed about Obama and his hatred for white people. His best friends are the most RACIST people in this country. Why is Harvard letting that idiot Gates teach his hatred at their University. They need to hire a White man to teach his hatred for the Afro-Americans. I’m sick in tired of this one-sided racism. If, Gates would had done what he was told Obama wouldn’t had to defend his racist drinking buddy.
All of this is a set-up for Gates and his partner to sue the police department for him being a RACIST IDIOT against the police for doing their job. I do feel sorry for the Cambridge Police Dept. because you have had 2 IDIOTS that holds a public office that suppose to keep their comments quiet until all of the facts are in open their mouths and call an innocent officer a racist when it’s the other way around. In case some of you are blind and deaf to the facts; I’m talking about Obama and the unimportant governor.
“Obama attended and supported a virulently anti-white racist and anti-semitic mosque/church for over 20 years listening to the most obscene hate speech since Hitler/Himmler. His behavior since the election merely confirms his own hatred for whites and Jews.”
I hope that all of you weak liberal white folks are happy now. I hope Obama screws you without giving you a kiss afterwards everytime one of his buddies screws up.
I GUESS A WHITE MAN MADE THAT BLACK DOCTOR KILL MICHEAL JACKSON.