CNN Watch: Black Officer Defends Sgt Crowley In Gates Case 7/24/09 pt 1

Sgt Leon Lashley was present during the arrest of a disorderly Gates outside of his house. After almost a week of trying to paint this arrest episode as a racial case of police abuse, CNN is forced to try to give the other side of this event because other news outlets had been exposing it for days at this point.

The average CNN viewer who depends on this network for their education of the issues receives constant propaganda and misinformation until it's too late, and their minds are already made up. Admittedly, most of their minds were already made up before they even tuned in to CNN, but this yellow journalist channel of Ted Turner's provides the confirmation they need to see America the way they do.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• CNN
• race
• Henry Louis Gates
• Obama
• Acting Stupidly
• Sgt James Crowley
• Cambridge police
• Sgt Leon Lashley

[SlipSlydinLydin]

@cocoadread If you had really heard the 911 call, you'd realize that the white woman who called the police, didn't even know the race of the men breaking in to the house. She just reported 2 men breaking in, and when the 911 operator asked their race, she wasn't sure.

This was a case of a professor grandstanding, & then tried to benefit financially from the situation. Unfortunately he ran into a cop who spends his spare time working with troubled minority youth, & he looked foolish.

[sovern009]

H.L.Gates represent a Class of Typical Afro-American who is completely out of touch with the plight of the Black-Male in America.H.L.G. obviously doesn't understand,there's safety in numbers.His numbers(black men) has been severely reduced,leaving him and many others like him venerable to Police harassment.The Escapism of the Black Bourgeois is now starting to haunt them.Perhaps this is a sign,of things to come?

[rateduploaded]

look at all these nubs looking stupid with their stupid faces. false arrest!!! yes that was wrong stupid fucks.

[SanchoQuintero]

Classic example of "Dont bite the hand that feeds you"

[7UniqueElements]

Well "whoops!"

[7UniqueElements]

Siding with wrong out of fear means that the silent police code goes before any other issue. If he had witnessed any violations of police procedure, out of fear of being targeted by other fellow officers for not following the code, he would have stood by the officer in the wrong no matter what. That's what I meant by that. AGAIN...my comments are generalizations of these events & my own experiences. I never said anyone on either side did wrong.

[ChurchillTea]

there is a descrepancy with the police report and Lucia Whalen's 911 call...that's the only thing that doesn't sound right with Crowley.

Also,Prof. Gates statements don't match up with witnesses (see Gayle King's interview on Oprah radio)

Gates' statements

[ChurchillTea]

I knew -when these black officers spoke up that they would be accused of being "uncle Toms".....I just knew it....throw 'em under the bus because they stood up for a cop who happens to be "white"....forget everything they may have done in their lives to help their own race....this is just nuts.

[ChurchillTea]

I think you just "profiled" a cop. ..

[ChurchillTea]

what does your statement mean..."siding with wrong out of fear"? ...."wrong" hasn't been established here