Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates outraged at arrest at his home

[Harconen]

"I actually just had a conversation with Sergeant Jim Crowley, the officer involved.  And I have to tell you that as I said yesterday, my impression of him was that he was a outstanding police officer and a good man, and that was confirmed in the phone conversation -- and I told him that."

 "And even when you've got a police officer who has a fine track record on racial sensitivity, interactions between police officers and the African American community can sometimes be fraught with misunderstanding."

Obaaaa maaaa, Kenya's calling you.




http://patdollard.com/2009/07/americas-racist-president-denigrates-the-office-obama-plunges-his-presidency-into-a-racial-crisis/ 

 http://atlantisonline.smfforfree2.com/index.php/topic,20022.msg161366.html#msg161366                                                                              

[Bianca]

                       Gates caller says she didn’t cite race - Woman laments media accounts






By John R. Ellement
and Matt Collette
Globe Staff
Globe Correspondent
July 27, 2009

The woman whose report of a possible house break-in led to the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. said she never mentioned race during her 911 call and is “personally devastated’’ by media accounts that suggest she placed the call because the men she observed on the porch were black, according to a lawyer acting as her spokeswoman.

The woman, identified in a police report on file in Cambridge District Court as 40-year-old Lucia Whalen, saw the backs of both men and did not know their race when she called 911, said Wendy J. Murphy, a Boston lawyer from New England School of Law. Whalen phoned police, Murphy said, because she was aware of recent break-ins in the area.

In an interview last night, Cambridg Commissioner Robert C. Haas said it was ac curate that Whalen did not mention race in her 911 call. He acknowledged that a police report of the incident did include a race reference. The report says Whalen observed “what appeared to be two black males with backpacks on the front porch’’ of a Ware Street home on July 16.

That reference is there, said Haas, because the police report is a summary. Its descriptions - like the race of the two men - were collected during the inquiry, not necessarily from the initial 911 call, he said.

The events of July 16 - when Gates was arrested at his home for disorderly conduct by Police Sergeant James Crowley, who responded to the 911 call - remain a matter of discussion, even as both sides seek to put the issue to rest. Tapes made during the incident may illuminate some of what happened.

Hass said yesterday that he expects some version of the tapes to be released in the next few days.

Race has become the central concern in what began as a report of a possible break-in. Whalen, walking from her office nearby, grew suspicious when she saw two men trying to force open the door of the home, according to the report.

The two men turned out to be Gates, who was unable to open his front door, and his driver, who assisted Gates in opening the door and left.

“People are making their own judgments about the case and assuming that she called police because they were black,’’ Murphy said yesterday in a telephone interview. “That sentiment is permeating the stories, and it ties directly to her involvement, even though the truth is she didn’t report seeing black men and she didn’t know the men’s race when she called 911.’’

In an interview at police headquarters last night, Haas said “it was very clear that she wasn’t sure’’ what the men’s race was. He also said that when the dispatcher questioned Whalen for more details, she told police she could only guess about the race of the two men. “She speculated . . . that one might be Hispanic.’’

[Bianca]

IT WAS A SET UP



With Gates' upcoming PBS special on race and his WH connections, the entire incident appears

to be a planned episode for his documentary, with PR assistance from the White House.

[Harconen]

ccccccccccccc 

What is going on with U.S.?

[Bianca]

What do you think?


Somebody came along and 'stole' it, while 51% were looking for


                                                        HOPEY CHANGEY


My, my, some people are going to have one HE!! of a


                                                              HANGOVER


Unfortunately, the rest of us will suffer too.  Actually, I probably won't, it seems that if the present
health care proposition passes as is, we elderly persons CERTAINLY will be so medically neglected
that we will NEVER reach our parents' age.  Especially people like me.

No room in this 'brave new world' for the weak and handicapped.......

[Harconen]

I was in love in U.S.

Music, Movies, way of life, "Home of the Brave, Land of the Free".You know, all that stuff.

But...not any more.

It is just good marketing, today.

And not so good any more.

[Bianca]

Yup,

George Bush started the downhill trend and Obama Bush is pulling up the rear.

Lucky us!

[Harconen]

And when it's bad in U.S. it's bad and here, in EU, and in the rest of the world too.

Everything is connected in one big "bad times".

We, the people, must do something.Something like "Think globally, act locally".To help one to another.

If we let them to continyu with this we are all done.

"They" will start a WWIII, cuz "it is to many people in the world.No Inough food for all, and oil etc."

They have point, there is no inough food and oil etc for all of us, cuz they control it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1tLW_gvA5Q&feature=related

[Tory Patrick]

Boston Cop Suspended For Calling Gates A "Jungle Monkey"



The fallout from the Henry Louis Gates Jr. arrest continues: the Boston Police Department has suspended an officer named Justin Barrett for using a racial slur in reference to the Harvard professor in an email, the AP reports:

After learning of the slur, Commissioner Edward Davis put 36-year-old Justin Barrett on administrative leave pending a termination hearing.

A person with knowledge of the case, speaking on condition of anonymity because the person is not authorized to speak publicly about it, said Barrett, a member of the National Guard, used the racial slur in messages to guardsmen and to The Boston Globe.


The AP omits the phrase Barrett used from its article, but the Boston Globe reports that the phrase was "jungle monkey," and that the officer used it while reacting to the media coverage of the arrest.

Barrett, a 36-year-old who has been on the job for two years, was stripped of his gun and badge yesterday and faces a termination hearing in the next week, said police spokeswoman Elaine Driscoll. He has no previous disciplinary record, she said.