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Did Cambridge Police Officer Sgt. James Crowley act stupidly?

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Uploaded by on Jul 28, 2009

Harvard scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested at him home after returning from a trip to China. A 911 caller reported seeing 2 men shouldering a door to gain access to the premises. When Sgt. James Crowley of the Cambridge police Dept arrived on the scene, he determined Dr. Gates was the lawful occupant of the premises, and then proceeded to arrest him for disorderly conduct.

According to Sgt. Crowley, he did this due to the unco-operatibve mood and agitated state of Dr. Gates.
Professor Gates claimed he was racially profiled by a racist cop, Sgt. Crowley claims he did nothing wrong.

Surely, this incident did not have to culminate in an arrest? I agree with President Obama, ...it was stupid!

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  • I read the quotes of gates from the police report. If you think a Harvard professor said those thing, you are either extremely naive, you watch too much television, or, yes, you are a racist.

  • Sophia Nelson is extremely bright and articulate. Don't assume Sophia, that most whites think this or that way. Where I live, I don't know any white that would sided with the cop and I am a white...I think. This white-black shit has got to end. It is a digusting legacy of slavery. By the way, don't think that whites have a love fest. Who killed who during WW2?

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  • would this have been news at all if everyone was black or everyone white?

  • @klard-I agree with Dr. Dyson's statement that if Crowley been a black officer who made a similar error against a famous white Harvard Professor (say for example Henry Kissinger) he would have been placed on extended assignment as a traffic cop. I really don't see why Pres.Obama saw the need to have a so-called 'beer summit'. Can all citizens of police abuse and complaint expect the same? You shd see the YT series about police being a big "street gang"

  • Prof. Filthy Mouth did EVERYTHING he could to incite this situation in order to MAKE what happened HAPPEN! Plain & simple... Period!

  • ponyboy316: You are right. Anything that appears in a police report is suspect. Police summarize events in their reports in a mannerr they think best supports their actions. Crowley's report stated the neighbor reported that two black men were involved, that has turned out not to be true. What else was fabricated in the police report? Credibility is the issue and Crowley has been shown to have fabricated facts.

  • ponyboy: I agree!

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