- Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley has gone whining
to his professional organization, the Cambridge Police Superior Officers
Assn., asking for support in calling for President Obama to apologize for
saying he acted "stupidly" in arresting Harvard Prof. Henry Gates
after first suspecting the prominent African-American scholar of being
a burglar caught breaking into Gates' own home.
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- Sgt. Crowley claims he was totally justified in making
the arrest on a charge of "disorderly conduct" (later dropped
by the police), because Gates, who actually had been forced to break into
his own home during a return from a speaking tour in China when the front
door was stuck, had allegedly become "enraged" when the officer
confronted him and asked for identification. Crowley claims that Gates
called him names, called him a racist, and threatened to file a complaint
against him, and that as a result he arrested him.
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- President Obama said that this arrest, made after Gates
had shown the officer both his Harvard faculty ID and also his drivers
license, showing that he in fact lived in the residence in question, was
stupid, but in truth it was much worse than that. It was a blatant abuse
of power--one that has become all to common, and accepted, in today's America,
where every cop's a "hero."
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- For the rest of this story, please go to:
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- http://www.thiscantbehappening.net
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