Obama: "Police Acted Stupidly" in Arresting Black Scholar

[RestoreTheRepublic]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8164862.stm

I don't like that Obama even gave an opinion on this matter and involved himself, but at the same time I agree that the cops did act stupidly in arresting a man for disorderly conduct after he showed the police his identification, thus validating his residence there.

What do you guys think?

[Reason]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8164862.stm

I don't like that Obama even gave an opinion on this matter and involved himself, but at the same time I agree that the cops did act stupidly in arresting a man for disorderly conduct after he showed the police his identification, thus validating his residence there.

What do you guys think?

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=200669

[RestoreTheRepublic]

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=200669

Didn't see that thread, thanks for the heads up. Just thought it was interesting that Obama actually commented on the matter and brought race into the case as the acting President

[jmdrake]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8164862.stm

I don't like that Obama even gave an opinion on this matter and involved himself, but at the same time I agree that the cops did act stupidly in arresting a man for disorderly conduct after he showed the police his identification, thus validating his residence there.

What do you guys think?

http://blurredproductions.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/sisko-facepalm.jpg

Funny but Obama never commented on the black EMT that got assaulted by the white state trooper. Nor did he comment about the 72 y/o white grandma that got tazered by the white state trooper. The man's an opportunist.

[catdd]

"Obama actually commented on the matter and brought race into the case as the acting President"

He can't help it, he's a racist himself.

[Krugerrand]

Didn't see that thread, thanks for the heads up. Just thought it was interesting that Obama actually commented on the matter and brought race into the case as the acting President

I think Lord Barry's comments are worthy of a separate discussion. We can keep discussion of the incident itself on the original thread.

I think he's setting himself up for a world of hurt if he intends to comment on every legal case out there. Details on things like this are often slow to come out and its easy to embarrass yourself as a result. Plus, other cases may lead to ... you commented on that case, why won't you comment on this one.

[TonySutton]

He is setting precedent. White cops better not interact with black citizens or else they risk becoming a racist.

[constitutional]

Let me get this right...

Gates refused to talk to the police officer and instead called for police Chief on his cordless phone. Also said "he is not a person to mess around with".

He's special?

[mczerone]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8164862.stm

I don't like that Obama even gave an opinion on this matter and involved himself, but at the same time I agree that the cops did act stupidly in arresting a man for disorderly conduct after he showed the police his identification, thus validating his residence there.

What do you guys think?

This and all the other increasing incidents of local police tyranny leave me thinking that next year Obama will call for a Federalization of the police forces, "to fight corruption and abuses of power," of course. *

We all know the reason this incident was so prized by the administration, too. It's because the victim was a:

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(unscramble for answer (what did you think I was going to say?))

[Krugerrand]

Did you notice too that the door could not locked because it has been previously broken into!

[jmdrake]

Let me get this right...

Gates refused to talk to the police officer and instead called for police Chief on his cordless phone. Also said "he is not a person to mess around with".

He's special?

Gates complied and gave the officer his idea but was later arrested for saying something the officer didn't like. That's not being "special". That's exercising the first amendment. There was no excuse for the arrest. It's no different from the white lady that got tazed for refusing to sign a ticket. Sure the officer may have had a right to be annoyed with her but no right to taze. I wish Gates hadn't brought race into the issue, but that doesn't make the cops right in this case.

[mczerone]

Let me get this right...

Gates refused to talk to the police officer and instead called for police Chief on his cordless phone. Also said "he is not a person to mess around with".

He's special?

I think he meant that, unlike any other prole that the cops may falsely accuse or generally harass, he knows people at the top.

It definitely illustrates that government police creates an artificial social stratification, but I doubt Gates himself realizes the realities of his statement.

[TonySutton]

Here is some interesting filler on the topic.


The white police sergeant accused of racism after he arrested renowned black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his own home is a police academy expert on racial profiling.

Cambridge Sgt. James Crowley has taught a class on racial profiling for five years at the Lowell Police Academy.

Academy Director Thomas Fleming told the Boston Herald that Crowley is "good role model" who was hand-picked for the job by former police Commissioner Ronny Watson, who is black.

In the class, Crowley teaches officers about different situations and how officers should handle them.

http://www.newsday.com/cop-who-arrested-black-scholar-profiling-expert-1.1319369

[Reason]

YouTube - Obama on Henry Gates Arrest (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOIsJzk0sUU)

[Time for Change]

He is setting precedent. White cops better not interact with black citizens or else they risk becoming a racist.

DING DING DING DING DING DING...we have a winner.

[fedup100]

I never heard the zero utter one effin word when the cops tasered to death hundreds of innocent people in the ussa.

By the way, I have never reads a news story of a black person being tasered, please someone, are they being tasered?

Yes, zero has stepped forward to continue his goal of total reverse racisim in this country.

[constitutional]

Gates complied and gave the officer his idea but was later arrested for saying something the officer didn't like. That's not being "special". That's exercising the first amendment. There was no excuse for the arrest. It's no different from the white lady that got tazed for refusing to sign a ticket. Sure the officer may have had a right to be annoyed with her but no right to taze. I wish Gates hadn't brought race into the issue, but that doesn't make the cops right in this case.

While I agree the cop should not have arrested in such situation, Gates is no hero either. He should be condemned as much as the police officer in this case.


If someone sued you, would you refuse to have your case heard by local court and rather prefer Supreme Court, where your friends sit, handle the case with special care? No one is special in the eyes of the law.

Both parties are at fault here but Gates isn't getting grilled as much as police officer.

[Time for Change]

He's protected by the potus and the media the pootus owns

[Maestro232]

While I agree the cop should not have arrested in such situation, Gates is no hero either. He should be condemned as much as the police officer in this case.

Why should a black man be condemned for being thrown off guard by a bunch of power tripping cops who transgressed his place of residence?