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7/24 Henry Gates arrest police report. Pretty funny.
http://www.amnation.com/vfr/Police%20report%20on%20Gates%20arrest.PDF
\_ ehn. I'm not laughing. Might have mad a funny video, but as a
work of fiction, it doesn't pack much laughs. (and I can tell you
from first hand experience police reports are very often more
a practice in rehearsed creative writing than anything else.)
\_ "Black officer at scholar's home supports arrest"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_harvard_scholar_arresting_officer
"Meanwhile, the police union and fellow officers, black and white,
rallied around Crowley, a decorated officer who in 1993 tried to
give lifesaving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to Reggie Lewis, a
black Boston Celtics player who collapsed at practice.
Crowley, 42, had been selected to be a police academy instructor on
how to avoid racial profiling."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090724/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_harvard_scholar_21
\_ "He even vowed to make a documentary on his arrest to tie into a
larger project about racial profiling."
http://www.csua.org/u/oo6 (news.yahoo.com)
AHA! That's his motive.
\- I think CROWLEY should have challenged GATES to a POLYGRAPH DUEL
based on the stuff he wrote in his police report which GATES
denied. Seriously. There would have been a large probability
GATES would have refused and would have wound up on the
denfensive.
\_ Is this seriously relevant to 15% unemployment, and 2011 projection
of hyperinflation? Like will we care what the color of the skin is
of the customer carting in wheelbarrows of dollars to buy bread?
\_ Isn't the race issue usually a bigger issue during economic
downturns?
\_ Yeah, Obama screwed that up too. So we shouldn't talk about
anything else?
\_ Are there any non-nutter types who are predicting hyperinflation? |
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| news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_harvard_scholar_arresting_officer James Crowley listens to questions from members of the AP - Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley listens to questions from members of the media at his home in Natick, ... ABC News By BOB SALSBERG, Associated Press Writer Bob Salsberg, Associated Press Writer - Fri Jul 24, 1:57 pm ET CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Leon Lashley says Gates was probably tired and surprised when Sgt. James Crowley demanded identification from him as officers investigated a report of a burglary. Lashley says Gates' reaction to Crowley was "a little bit stranger than it should have been." Asked if Gates should have been arrested, Lashley said supported Crowley "100 percent." President Barack Obama says the officers "acted stupidly." Lashley called Obama's remark "unfortunate" and said he should be allowed to take it back. Deval Patrick to apologize for comments the union leaders called insulting. Deval Patrick said Gates' arrest was "every black man's nightmare." Dennis O'Connor, president of the Cambridge Police Superior Officers Association, said Obama's remarks were "misdirected" and the Cambridge police "deeply resent the implication" that race was a factor in the arrest. "President Obama said the actions of the CPD were stupid and linked the event to the history of racial profiling in America," O'Connor said. "The facts of the case suggested that the president used the right adjective but directed it to the wrong party." Officers responded to Gates' home on July 16 after a woman called 911 and said she saw two black men with backpacks trying to force open the front door. The woman, Lucia Whalen, has not responded to repeated attempts for comment. Gates has said he returned from an overseas trip, found the door jammed, and that he and his driver attempted to force it open. Gates went through the back door and was inside the house on the phone with the property's management company when police arrived. James Crowley, who is white, asked him to show identification to prove he should be in the home. Police say Gates accused Crowley of racial bias, refused to calm down and was arrested. The charge was dropped Tuesday, but Gates has demanded an apology, calling his arrest a case of racial profiling. Gates, 58, maintains he turned over identification when asked to do so by the police. He said Crowley arrested him after the professor followed him to the porch, repeatedly demanding the sergeant's name and badge number because he was unhappy over his treatment. Crowley has refused to apologize, saying he followed protocol. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. |
| news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090724/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_harvard_scholar_21 President Barack Obama pauses as he talks to the media in the briefing room at AP - President Barack Obama pauses as he talks to the media in the briefing room at the White House in Washington, ... By NANCY BENAC, Associated Press Writer Nancy Benac, Associated Press Writer - Fri Jul 24, 7:02 pm ET WASHINGTON - Knocked offstride by a racial uproar he helped stoke, President Barack Obama hastened Friday to try and tamp down the controversy. Obama conceded his words had been ill-chosen, but he stopped short of a public apology. James Crowley, hoping to end the rancorous back-and-forth over what had transpired and what Obama had said about it. Trying to lighten the situation, he even commiserated with Crowley about reporters on his lawn. Hours earlier, a multiracial group of police officers had stood with Crowley in Massachusetts and said the president should apologize. It was a measure of the nation's keen sensitivities on matters of race that the fallout from a disorderly conduct charge in Massachusetts -- and the remarks of America's first black president about it -- had mushroomed to such an extent that he felt compelled to make a special appearance at the White House to try to put the matter to rest. The blowup had dominated national attention just as Obama was trying to marshal public pressure to get Congress to push through health care overhaul legislation -- and as polls showed growing doubts about his performance. "This has been ratcheting up, and I obviously helped to contribute ratcheting it up," Obama said of the racial controversy. "I want to make clear that in my choice of words, I think I unfortunately gave an impression that I was maligning the Cambridge Police Department and Sgt. The president did not back down from his contention that police had overreacted by arresting the Harvard professor for disorderly conduct after coming to his home to investigate a possible break-in. He added, though, that he thought Gates, too, had overreacted to the police who questioned him. Obama stirred up a hornet's nest when he said at a prime-time news conference this week that Cambridge police had "acted stupidly" by arresting Gates, a friend of the president's. Still, Obama said Friday he didn't regret stepping into the controversy and hoped the matter would end up being a "teachable moment" for the nation. "The fact that this has garnered so much attention, I think, is testimony to the fact that these are issues that are still very sensitive here in America," Obama said. Obama wryly took note of the distraction from his legislative efforts. "I don't know if you've noticed, but nobody's been paying much attention to health care," the president said. Obama, who has come under intense criticism from police organizations, said he had called Crowley to clear the air, and said the conversation confirmed his belief that the sergeant is an "outstanding police officer and a good man." White House press secretary Robert Gibbs refused to say whether Obama had apologized to Crowley. Asked repeatedly about that, Gibbs said: "If the president doesn't want to characterize it in a conversation that he hates having with you all, I'm not going to get ahead of him." The story had taken on a life of its own, and the White House scrambled to keep up. Gibbs said just Friday morning that the president had probably said most of what he was going to say, and that the only problem was media "obsession." Hours later, Obama showed up to try to put the issue to rest. Obama was lighter in tone in his public remarks about his phone conversation with Crowley. He said the police officer "wanted to find out if there was a way of getting the press off his lawn." "I informed him that I can't get the press off my lawn," Obama joked. In his conversation with Gates, aides said, Obama and the professor had spoken about the president's statement to the press and his conversation with Crowley. The case began on Monday, when word broke that Gates, 58, had been arrested five days earlier at the two-story home he rents from Harvard. Supporters including Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson called the arrest an outrageous act of racial profiling. Public interest increased when a photograph surfaced of the handcuffed Gates being escorted off his porch amid three officers, two white and one black. Cambridge police moved to drop the disorderly conduct charge on Tuesday -- without apology, but calling the case "regrettable." That didn't end the national debate: Some said Gates was responsible for his own arrest because of his response to Crowley, while others said Gates was justified to yell at the officer. Obama's criticism of the police only added fuel to the racial debate. Meanwhile, the police union and fellow officers, black and white, rallied around Crowley, a decorated officer who in 1993 tried to give lifesaving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to Reggie Lewis, a black Boston Celtics player who collapsed at practice. Crowley, 42, had been selected to be a police academy instructor on how to avoid racial profiling. A multiracial group of officers and union officials stood with Crowley on Friday at a news conference to show support and to ask Obama and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, who is black, to apologize for their comments. Patrick had called Gates' arrest "every black man's nightmare." Obama's take on the situation: "My sense is you've got two good people in a circumstance in which neither of them were able to resolve the incident in a way that it should have been resolved." Democratic activists around the country were hopeful the president's latest remarks had done just that. "Let's concentrate on the business at hand -- fixing the economy and health care for everybody," said Florida state Rep. Luis Garcia, a vice chair of the state Democratic Party. In Michigan, 19-year-old Mitchell Rivard, the president of the Michigan State University College Democrats, expressed hope the controversy would indeed be a learning experience for the country. "I think it's going to make people talk about race relations around the United States and in their home towns," Rivard said. "This will be something that people are going to talk about across the nation in terms of how we can have better race relations." The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. |
| www.csua.org/u/oo6 -> news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090726/ap_on_re_us/us_harvard_scholar_disorderly In this photo taken by a neighbor Thursday July 16, 2009, Henry Louis Gates Jr. AP - In this photo taken by a neighbor Thursday July 16, 2009, Henry Louis Gates Jr. By RUSSELL CONTRERAS, Associated Press Writer Russell Contreras, Associated Press Writer - 33 mins ago BOSTON - Black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. says he's ready to move on from his arrest by a white police officer, hoping to use the encounter to improve fairness in the criminal justice system and saying "in the end, this is not about me at all." After a phone call from President Barack Obama urging calm in the aftermath of his arrest last week, Gates said he would accept Obama's invitation to the White House for a beer with him and Cambridge police Sgt. In a statement posted Friday on The Root, a Web site Gates oversees, the scholar said he told Obama he'd be happy to meet with Crowley, whom Gates had accused of racial profiling. "I told the president that my principal regret was that all of the attention paid to his deeply supportive remarks during his press conference had distracted attention from his health care initiative," Gates said. "I am pleased that he, too, is eager to use my experience as a teaching moment, and if meeting Sergeant Crowley for a beer with the president will further that end, then I would be happy to oblige." It was a marked change in tone for Gates, who in the days following his arrest gathered up his legal team and said he was contemplating a lawsuit. He even vowed to make a documentary on his arrest to tie into a larger project about racial profiling. In an e-mail to the Boston Globe late Friday, he said: "It is time for all of us to move on, and to assess what we can learn from this experience." In a statement to The Associated Press, Gates promised to do all he could so others could learn from his arrest. "This could and should be a profound teaching moment in the history of race relations in America," Gates said. "I sincerely hope that the Cambridge police department will choose to work with me toward that goal." Gates, 58, did not say in his statement if he planned to file a lawsuit. Crowley did not return a telephone message seeking comment Saturday. The outcry began Monday, when word broke that Gates had been arrested five days earlier at the two-story home he rents from Harvard. Supporters called the arrest an outrageous act of racial profiling. Public interest increased when a photograph surfaced of the handcuffed Gates being escorted off his porch amid three officers. Cambridge police moved to drop the disorderly conduct charge on Tuesday -- without apology, but calling the case "regrettable." Obama, who had said Cambridge police "acted stupidly" in arresting Gates, sought to tamp down the uproar Friday. He spoke to Crowley and Gates during separate telephone calls and declared that Crowley was a good man. Obama invited the officer and the professor to the White House for a beer. He conceded his words had been ill-chosen, but he stopped short of a public apology. A trio of Massachusetts police unions released a joint statement shortly after Obama's latest comments, saying Crowley had a friendly and meaningful conversation with the president. "We appreciate his sincere interest and willingness to reconsider his remarks about the Cambridge Police Department," according to the statement. "It is clear to us from this conversation, that the President respects police officers and the often difficult and dangerous situations we face on a daily basis." Gates added that he hoped his arrest would lead to a greater understanding about racial profiling in America. "If my experience leads to the lessening of the occurrence of racial profiling, then I would find that enormously gratifying," Gates said on The Root. it is about the creation of a society in which 'equal justice before law' is a lived reality." The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. |
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