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“I’ve heard about five different reports [on the details of the arrest]. If I’m the President of the United States, I don’t care how much pressure people want to put on it about race, I’m keeping my mouth shut.”-Bill Cosby on Boston’s WZLX
I first chimed in on Henry Louis Gates, Jr and the Cambridge police matter on Tuesday. You can read what I wrote here This Guy Sounds Like a Real Dick.
This thing has really blown up since then, with everyone giving their two cents’ worth, including our President, who claimed that the Cambridge police acted “stupidly” on this issue.
Well, Mr President, you said you didn’t know all the facts in this case, so I will say that your response to the question was answered ’stupidly’.
The more we find out about the confrontation between the arresting officer, Sgt. James Crowley, and Professor Henry Gates, the more it appears that I was exactly right in my comment that, basically, Gates is a pompous ass.
Gates accused the 11-year police veteran of being an inflexible, race-baiting tyrant after Sgt Crowley arrested and charged him with disorderly conduct last week. What really happened is that Prof Gates was pi**ed that this cop didn’t know who the distinguished African-American scholar was.
Prof Gates didn’t know who he was messing with!!
Supporters, both black and white, are rallying behind Sgt Crowley, who was hand-picked by a black police commissioner to teach recruits about avoiding racial profiling.
“If people are looking for a guy who’s abusive or arrogant, they got the wrong guy,” said Andy Meyer of Natick, Mass., a friend of Sgt Crowley who has vacationed with him, coached sports with him and is a teammate on a softball team with him. “This is not a racist, rogue cop.”
Sgt Crowley is an exemplary cop who once administered CPR to a dying Boston Celtic Reggie Lewis, who collapsed of a heart attack during a Celtic practice. Mr Lewis was black.
Obama should have done a “no comment” when asked about the incident, but instead has given this issue legs.
Sgt Crowley said on radio station WBZ-AM Thursday, “I support the president of the United States 110 percent. I think he was way off base wading into a local issue without knowing all the facts, as he himself stated before he made that comment.”
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Cambridge Police Commissioner Robert Haas has also spoken up for his officer saying, “Sgt. Crowley is a stellar member of this department. I rely on his judgment every day. … I think he basically did the best in the situation that was presented to him.”
There are also tapes of the police radio transmissions that may be released.
Crowley said that he hasn’t heard the tapes yet, but that, “One of my first transmissions was to slow the units down and I’m in the residence with somebody I believe resides here, but he’s being very uncooperative. So, that’s in real time,” Crowley told the sports-talk hosts of WEEI.
If the release of the tapes shows that Prof Gates is in the wrong it will not solve anything in a lot of people’s minds. There will always be a bit of denial and conspiracy to it.
However, one fact can’t be denied. By speaking out on this matter President Obama has exhibited his “stupidly” made remarks.
Prof Gates has demanded an apology from Sgt Crowley. My question is this. Will Gates and Obama apologize to Sgt Crowley and the Cambridge Police Department when all the facts are out, and Sgt Crowley is shown to have been in the right for arresting Prof Gates?
Mr Gates reportedly told Officer Crowley, “You don’t know who you are messing with.”
Perhaps it is you, Prof Gates, who didn’t know who they were messing with!!
Methinks not.
