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Obama: "Cambridge Police acted Stupidly" Stupid in arresting Professor Henry Louis Gates
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 Obama: "Cambridge Police acted Stupidly" Stupid in arresting Professor Henry Louis Gates When will idiots like Henry Gates learn to cooperate with the Police, and when will Obama learn to stop acting stupidly, or stupid? The answer to both of these questions is never. As for the Professor, or anyone else for that matter, you need to do as the Police say whether you think they are right or wrong. Of course if they tell you to jump off a cliff, then no, you should not do what they say, but in the normal course of them investigating something, just do as they say. I am 99% sure that this Professor dude mouthed off to the cop without provocation; I'm sure it was due to the gigantic chip on his shoulder. I'm also sure that the only one who brought a bad attitude to this situation was the Professor; he wanted to provoke the cop into arresting him for some sort of publicity or something. I can see this so clearly in my mind, I can see the cop being antagonized on his every move. Professor Henry Louis seems like a real jerk to me, who as I said before was just making the most (to stir things up racially) out of a bad situation. We can expect something like that from a man like Louis, but to have things stirred up by the President is another thing. What was Obama thinking when he said that the Cambridge Police acted stupidly? Did he momentarily forget the position that he holds, did he think for just a moment that he was back on the Chicago streets organizing communities? I guess you could say that he was not thinking, or he would have just made a very general statement on the matter. This leads me to think that maybe he's not as intelligent as some say he is. The bottom line is that people need to cooperate with the Police whether they think they are right or wrong, and that our President might want to use his brain next time before making condemning remarks about and incident that he knows nearly nothing about. jbranstetter04 Gates's version: A 'rogue cop' and a battle of wills Henry Louis Gates gave a long interview on Sirius's Oprah Radio to Gayle King, a sympathetic interviewer who also pushes him on the key points; it's worth a listen in full. Gates gives a detailed version of the encounter, challenging a specific aspect of the police report, that he referred to Sgt. Crowley's "momma": "I think when they put together that report they did some historical research and watched some episodes of 'Good Times' or something," Gates said. "What kind of black person today says [that] to a big white police officer?" He also gives an account of how the situation escalated: Gates said he sensed a series of unspoken slights in the way Crowley treated him -- demanding he step outside, assuming he was an intruder, not the homeowner, and even after he produced ID -- "I interrupted him, I said, 'Thats enough. This is my house you have my IDs. I want your name and your badge numbers. I said Im filing a complaint." "Just because a black man answers the door.treat him with respect," Gates said. "Dont go presuming." "It was a battle of wills about me stepping on to that front porch. It was like a throwdown," he said, comparing it to a B-Movie. "It was a war of wills between two people about rights." Gates said the episode had a purpose. "Often were chosen for events for larger reasons, and I think I was chosen to be arrested in my own home so that I would start to devote my considerable resources toward a problem that plagues American society and plagues the criminal justice system and that is both racial profiling and arbitrary and capricious actions by rogue cops," he said, adding later that he planned to produce a documentary on the subject. He also, in the clip above, reacted -- favorably -- to Obama's remarks. And he explained his most memorably line of the encounter: "When I said, 'This is how you treat a black man in America,' it was not in an accusatory tone -- it was more astonishment," he said. http://www.politico.com/b logs/bensmith/0709/Gatess _version_A_rogue_cop_and_ a_battle_of_wills.html
Date : 24 juillet 2009 - 03:08:38
Tags : News Obama Cambridge Police acted Stupidly arresting loudmouth Professor Henry Louis Gates James Crowley breaking into house press conference news O'Reilly arrested racism profiling brutality confrontation comments stupid racial apologize
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