911, police tapes key in Gates case Officials mull release of recorded evidence By Richard Weir, Laurel J. Sweet and Benjamin Bell | Friday, July 24, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Local Coverage
Mounting pressure to get to the bottom of the controversial arrest of black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. is centering on recorded police tapes that may offer a dose of reality amid all the media and political noise.
Cambridge police brass and lawyers are weighing making the tapes public, which could include the 911 call reporting a break-in at Gates’ home and radio transmissions by the cop who busted him July 16 for disorderly conduct.
“It’s powerful evidence because the (people involved) have not had a chance to reflect and you are getting their state of mind captured on tape,” said former prosecutor and New York City police officer Eugene O’Donnell, who is now a lecturer at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan.
Cambridge Police Commissioner Robert Haas said last night he has asked City Solicitor Donald Drisdell to review the 911 tape, which has the potential to either bolster or impugn Gates’ stance that he is a blameless victim of racial profiling at his own home.
Further, Sgt. James Crowley noted in his report that he radioed police headquarters to let them know he was with the person who appeared to be the home’s lawful resident, but who was “very uncooperative.”
"gave an impression" he was maligning the officer?
HE DID!
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
obama sure knows how to segregate, huh? He should have stayed outta this. It was a local issue not a national issue!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
So did obama actually, really, honestly apologize? I didn't quite hear that. Did anyone else?
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Black Harvard scholar Gates says he'll have a beer with Obama, white cop, wants to 'move on' By RUSSELL CONTRERAS Associated Press Writer
AP answers your questions on the news, from survey sampling to returned bailout money BOSTON (AP) -- 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. James Crowley. 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. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/s.....amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
WorldNetDaily Exclusive Meet the man at center of Obama's race controversy Gates immortalized communist, linked to radical black activists Posted: July 24, 2009 2:49 pm Eastern
By Aaron Klein
JERUSALEM – Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Harvard professor at the center of the current national race controversy, has recruited radical black activists to his university department, is a prominent supporter of reparations for the descendents of slaves and has immortalized a communist and socialist activist.
Since 1991, Gates has been teaching African American studies at Harvard, where he serves as the director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. De Bois, an American civil rights activist, sociologist, historian and author, was an avowed communist and also a socialist sympathizer.
Du Bois was for a brief time a member of the Socialist Party. In 1927 he infamously traveled to the USSR, where he called the Soviet system "the most hopeful vehicle for the world." Eight years later, he published the book "Black Reconstruction," which offered a Marxist interpretation of the Reconstruction Era....................>>>>...............>>>>............http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=104938
Gee....should we be surprised that obama is in the same company as this gates guy?
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Cop in Harvard professor case was just doing his job
Re July 24 article, “Cop at center of dispute is profiling expert”: I love this black Harvard professor/white cop story. What if the cop had left after the gentleman had said it was his without checking further? What if the gentleman had been a criminal intent on either stealing what was there and/or murdering who was there? Would the black Harvard professor think the cop didn’t do his job properly because he didn’t insist on seeing the ID and believed him the same as the professor wanted? What if the Harvard professor was white and the cop was black? Would [we] be hearing discrimination charges then or would we say the professor was overreacting and the officer was doing his job? Would we also say the professor was discriminated against because the offi cer was black? This is 2009 folks. Take the color out of the equation, like we should. The police received a call of what was a possible burglary and went to the house. I’m sure any cop in his right mind would knock on the door to inquire if the person was a burglar or not. No, apparently the door was unlocked. Anyone could have walked in and done this professor harm. They found a person fitting the description of who was the possible burglar. If the report said two white men, they would’ve looked for two white men; if the report said two Latino men, they would have looked for two Latino men. The report given to the officers was two black men. According to the stories, the professor acted insulted he should even be questioned about this incident. Say the police knew the home belonged to a black professor; how were they to know he was the black person who lived there? One should act respectful to all and treat all equally. I believe the officer acted within his rights and the professor expected to be believed. We know all who talk to police officers tell the truth and we should take them for their word. These are just my thoughts, but put yourself in each situation and how do you think the incident should be handled?
In Harvard prof case, Obama was too quick to criticize Boston PD
Just when you think our new president has initiated positive change in the way things are done in our country, he decides that racism should receive one more spotlight, as if we have not tired of the subject. In the president’s comment on the recent arrest of a Harvard professor, Mr. Obama stated that the Boston Police Department “acted stupidly.” This accusation came before all the facts of the alleged arrest were brought to light. The Harvard professor, a black American, had been seen breaking into his own home, something most of us have done in the past when we lost keys or misplaced a space. The professor had been on a trip, and during his absence, an attempt was made by unknown persons to enter homes in the area. That was reported to the Boston police. On the night of the alleged incident, the police arrived to find the Harvard educator in the act of breaking into a home. When asked to show documentation showing that he was who he said he was, the professor belligerently and verbally challenged the arresting officers by playing the race card; the professor called one of the arresting officers a racist, and he allegedly made reference to the officer’s mother. The professor steadfastly continued to berate the policeman in question, and after showing the officer his ID, the teacher continued his verbal abuse. It was at that point that an arrest was made. In kindergarten, we all learned that when asked by a police offer to show some identification, we do so and then engage in polite conversation concerning the request to show ID. I so much wanted our president to do well and I am growing tired of the race business. Someone has to return to kindergarten for a refresher course.
first there IS rascism in the land and this officer was a profiler who was going agansit the agenda of the government and the president, he is an outlaw now.
I DO BUT THIS ONE IS NO GOOD SINCE HE HAD IT OUT FOR THE MAN OF COLOR OVER THERE OUR BOYS IN TOWN HERE WOULD NEVER EVER ACT THAT WAY THEY ARE FULY PROFESSIONAL MEN IN UNIFORM AND THE REPUBS ARE ANGRY THEY ARE LAW ABIDDING UNLIKE THESE ROAGS OVER THERE IN CONETICUT
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