Beerestroika: Drinking to distraction
Today’s the big day. The Obama/Gates/Crowley “beer summit” will take place at about 6 p.m. on a picnic table on the South Lawn of the White House, where every belch will be filled with hope and each beer can pyramid supported by change.
Fortunately for Professor Gates, unless he has a horrible pilot, he won’t have to fly over North Carolina to get to DC.
President Obama will then sit down with Gates and Crowley to discuss in part how they can help get rid of all-too-common racial and ethnic stereotypes — as the three Irishmen drink the afternoon away in front of the entire world.
That brings up another troublesome item — did you notice that when things went bad on the public relations front for a proud “black scholar” and the country’s first African-American president, all of a sudden everybody was Irish? What gives? Are they essentially blaming their race-baiting knee-jerk statements on this one particular singled-out slice of ancestry? If so, this isn’t the kind of racial “healing” I was hoping for.
You might imagine that enterprising Cambridge burglars are now well aware that people in Gates’ neighborhood are going to be terrified to call the police and report crimes for fear of being branded “racist,” but that’s an issue for Gates’ neighbors to take up with the professor when he gets back to his home that hopefully still has all his stuff in it.
Enjoy your beers, fellas — and I sincerely hope that Officer Crowley invites Gates and Obama to his police station for coffee with his fellow officers. The offer probably wouldn’t be accepted (in the progressive ideology, there’s such a thing as “too much healing”), but it would be a nice gesture nonetheless.
Conan O’Brien put it best: “If this works out, the president is going to have Netanyahu and Ahmadinejad over for Jägerbombs.”
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Oooooo…now lgm was there watching over the officer’s shoulder.
New job, lgm? Hourly wage or salaried?
lgm
nyk is NOT right. I refer you to my post above. nyk’s (and your) contentions would hold water if the police report purported to summarize what might have been said in a 911 call. The report summarizes a conversation that Crowley had ON THE SCENE with Ms. Whalen.
Don’t accuse Crowley of falsifying or lying when you can’t even get the facts straight – but that would be nothing new for either you or nyk.
you just lent nyk all kinds of needed credibility…not.
LGM:
Please see my comment to NYK:
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/07/30/beerestroika-drinking-to-distraction/comment-page-1/#comment-760121
As for the beer. I love beer. I love MJ. However, I just don’t think discussing racial tensions over beer is a very Presidential thing to do.
lgm: You didn’t blame bush. You are slipping. Your masters will not be pleased.
Shocked that you two would agree.
So now he is a liar?
Well now, is he a liar or stupid? Please decide. I won’t bother with the rest of your diatribe because it is pointless. Your diatribe, I mean.
lgm said:
Best review those talking points from The Huff Puff Post you are using.
I’m amused at how some believe that Crowley’s report would include something with which he was not involved (the 911 call) and ignore the fact that he spoke with the caller when he arrived.
In what I can only assume is a defense of the President’s “mis-calibrated” and unnecessary assessment of the situation, they now believe that Crowley’s report is somewhere between questionable and a lie?
…and these same folks have issues with others’ “knee-jerk” reactions?
This is such an emarrassment for our country. Thanks Obama!
Just another example of the Oprahfication of America.
Can Obama lower the office of President any further? How about being a guest judge on American Idol?
Just absolutely pathetic.
When back stroking away from something, the libtard will churn up and throw out as much mud as possible to obscure the fact that they are back stroking. Eh! LGM?
lgm? nyk?
jeopardy theme…
A good indication Obama is in trouble, better even than the tanking poll numbers..
nyk shows up to help him.
I just have one question:
Why has it become a bad thing in this country for someone who is reporting a crime or possible crime to include in their description such a vital thing as the race and/or complexion of the perpetrator?
Sure helps while looking for the perp.
I hate political correctness.
How much is this beer fest costing me? Is this a tax payer event? I didn’t get an invite!
Have to hand it to the Crowley, he’s extremely magnanimous considering that MasterGates called him a rogue cop and The Kenyan Imposter called him stupid.
Also, the report is spot on correct – it was a case of two black men who seemed to be breaking into someone’s home. That fact is not even up for debate.
Unfortunately, Racism will always exist as long as anyone defines themselves by their race. Racism is not about power as many suggest, meaning only those in power can be racist. It is about race.
Gates defines his life by his race and probably makes a large part of his living promoting his bigoted views on whitey. He sees everything through that prism. It is a hateful, self fulfilling ideology.
How do they think people are going to react when bigots accuse them of things they have nothing to do with and demand reparations, etc? It is old and tiring. You want to be respected. Then respect others and quit blaming problems, real or imagined, on others. We all have positive and negatives in our lives. We are all imperfect. We are all people, not color wheels.
zyzzyg,
I apologize. I need to improve my sarcasm.
Obama is doing a Clinton. Clinton tried to give you the impression that he could personally fix every little thing in every person’s daily life. As a taxpayer, I find this this exercsie to be an utter waste of time. If Obama worked for a corporation I would expect him to take 4 hours of Personal Time to have his little get together.
He’s like a CEO who is unavailable to handle critical corporate business because he is at Walmart with the mail clerk’s watch, getting the watch’s dead battery replaced.
Dumb, stupid, inappropriate waste of the day. It’s a local matter, thus I could care less if the Cambridge police write reports that are Shakespeare or utter works of fiction. Nor should a President.
P.S. I used to travel to Cambridge, MA on business and really liked the city or its citizens, so no slam intended.
purplepeep said:
I guarantee you that if I locked myself out of my house and someone who saw me trying to break in called the Police, the Police would be on me faster than a bum on a bologna sandwich.
I hope Crowley doesn’t let Obama and Gates use him. See here:
http://tinyurl.com/ktgvlg
The gold medal for Straw Grasping goes to nyk and lgm.
On July 30th, 2009 at 12:01 pm, nyk said:
Practice what you preach, NYK; what’s more, I don’t recall your ever being quite so magnanimous and even-handed with President Bush and VP Cheney.
zyzzyg said:
And you’re sure it is “questionable” because…?
This whole thing would not even been a story for most people, regardless of color, if Gates was not so racially focused. I would hope that most people who have to throw their shoulder into their front door to open it might understand why the police might show up. You might think they would even be grateful that the police were protecting their home from invasion. Certainly a person with a door like that would understand the confusion and identify himself promptly. He might even be embarrassed that he hadn’t had the door fixed yet and the police had to be involved.
If you mean they’d be stop you in what looks to be an B&E attempt, that’s what they get paid to do – it’s their job.
Same as with anybody who leaves their keys in their car and is trying to jimmy a window open. Police are gonna stop the person and ask whazzup.
Like you, I also expect the police to stop me if they catch me doing any activity that smells of some kinda break-in.
I seem to remember that Gates was on some news show and admitted that “he got in the officer’s face.”
I know how I translate that statement and it does not mean that he was being polite to him.
And, darn it, I hate to admit it but my mother was right again. She always told me what would happen to me if I was not polite to a police officer. The only difference is that what she told me involved more than just being handcuffed and taken downtown.
I would hope that the only “teaching moment” tonight involves Gates and Obama and that Sergeant Crowley is the teacher.
I suspect he’ll end up as center square of a game show some day.
Pseudo-Professor Gates and Obama are losers…and I await the next time Gates gets robbed with delight because no neighbor will help him now…Gates deserves it.
So classically liberal. When the facts don’t support your take on something, claim that the opposing view can’t possibly be correct either. Never mind that the facts support the opposing view.
No, the truth is as it was reported by the arresting officer and corroborated by the other officers on the scene.
Please go somewhere else to spout your condescending non-sense. And shouldn’t you be busy ironing your “Bush Lied” T-shirt for your next protest?
Gates is at fault in this event. He acted in an unacceptable manner and he immediately initiated race hatred from HIS side, while the police officer, Crowley, clearly remained calm, respectful, and patient, and NEVER brought race into the mix.
Barrack Hussein Obama (Peace be unto Him. Praise His Holy Name. Bow before Him in worship and adoration. Give thanks to Him for all he gives out of His abundant bounty. Devote yourself to Him in all ways. Give yourself to Him and accept Him as your Lord and Savior and He will save you from eternal damnation. Spread the word of our wonderful Messiah. Give Him your burdens and worries and He will Give you Peace. Trust in Him and He will heal you of all your infirmities – /sarcasm off) put his foot in his mouth, then spewed diarrhea of the mouth in indicting the officer as racist and stupid without knowing the facts, and he comes off as arrogant, dishonest, and disingenuous in his “beer social.”
There IS racism in the USA and it is predominantly practiced by blacks and Hispanics against Caucasians and Asians-Orientals.
Here, in Obama’s and Gates’ case that truth is as evident as the noon day sun on a clear day.
About another falsehood perpetuated about this case: the house is not “Gate’s home”, it’s University-owned property the police were protecting.
purplepeep said:
I fully expect them too. once I explained whats going on and prove I lived there – basically it would be over. If I went off and called them names or verbally abused them for doing their jobs, I would deserve everything I got.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
We agree on most things, I think, but I’m not sure that this point matters much. An apartment is still a “home” even if it is not owned by the occupant, right?
I doubt who owned the property itself mattered much to Sgt. Crowley, just that the person breaking into it had a lawful right to be there.
DBNinKY said:
There is hard evidence against it, in the form of recordings the 911 call and Crowley’s interactions with the dispatcher.
I’m not trying to crucify a police officer. I don’t think the discrepancies are such a big deal. But people here do hyperventilate over even smaller discrepancies when made by people they don’t like. It was my “teaching moment”: here’s what it looks like when a small discrepancy is portrayed as a grand lie.
I just read that Obama has selected Bud Light as his choice for the much ballyhooed Beer Summit taking place this evening. I’m all for drinking what you like, but in this case, if the POTUS isn’t drinking beer, perhaps Crowley and Gates should follow suit.
Ahhhuh. Sure you aren’t. After all we can’t have your fellow racist professor look bad now can we? And god forbid obama look like the racist idiot he is.
Yup, I’ve been stopped by the police, they ask a question or two, I answer, and then we all just go about our day. I have smarts enough not to pick fights with cops if I were carryig a 16 ton chip on my shoulder!
You’re funny.
Is this your practiced response style if a student notices a mistake in your calculations?
It must be nice to be a liberal like lgm and nyk. You don’t have to do all that difficult thinking. Just look to Obama and he will provide you with opinions and positions on any issue in exchange for a vote every few years.
If ignorance is bliss, you’d think they’d be happier.
Drinking beer on the lawn,
How very presidential
Why not drag in a wreck and prop it up on blocks with missing doors and the hood up
Like most dealings with Obama and the democrats in general, the truth is the first casualty.
The truth: A good neighbor saw what she thought was someone breaking into a neighbors house, the police investigated and instead of saying “Thank you for being so diligent and protecting my property” ‘Professor’ Gates decided to verbally assault the investigating officer and level charges of racism against the one cop in the Cambridge PD whose job it is to prevent racial profiling.
And of course like clockwork both Obama and lgm shot their mouths off without knowing any of the details.
(There’s now four kinds of wrong in this world: wrong, dead wrong, Obama wrong and lgm wrong. One means to be incorrect, one means to be incorrect in a life threatening way, one means to be so incorrect it costs your country trillions of dollars, and one means to be wrong about everything. You guys figure out which is which.)
So now they’re going sit down and calmly discuss this over a cold beer? I’m sorry, but Obama hasn’t shown the personal fortitude and honor it would take to successfully execute such a complex task. And ‘Professor’ Gates breaking bread at the same table as a white man? That racist reject is incapable of swallowing his pride long enough to uncap a Rolling Rock unless everyone in his presence is a black racist communist. Their only hope is to quickly enroll in the Al Sharpton Graduate School of Hypocrisy, Opportunism, and Liberal Lies.
LGM, m’lad, your feelings about anything don’t equal “hard evidence”. The facts are that Gates went screaming nutso and got his sorry, stupid racist arse arrested. Then Obama added his own unique brand of stupidity by giving a national address on Gate’s jackassery, which resulted in pushing Obama’s poll numbers even faster down the dumper.
This, of course, means Obama has to invent diversions: Bush, them thar evil cops – whatever, for lefties like you to parrot in a desperate attempt to try to bail him out. Good luck with that, lad.
Focus lgm, focus
Again, the police report does NOT in any way, shape, form or fashion attempt to summarize the content of the 911 call. It DOES attempt to summarize the content of the interview that Officer Crowley conducted ON THE SCENE with Ms. Whalen.
The fact that Ms. Whalen said one thing on the 911 call and MOST PROBABLY said another thing during the interview (yeah, I know, she denies having said “black men” during the on scene interview, but that’s an entirely separate subject for debate) DOES NOT NECESSARILY mean that Officer Crowley falsified his report.
I don’t expect you to respond to this at all – you never seem to respond to posters here who factually point out the fallicy of your arguments. Tends to make a teacher of a logic based subject look bad now, doesn’t it?
Nah – that’s on my “list of things to do today”.
Except I’ll be drinkin’ something that ain’t “lite”.
I’m bad. I’m hoping ‘Professor’ Gates locks his keys in his car at the mall and borrows a coat hanger.
I thought that was the purpose of the “CARS” program.
I checked into that, but since they refused to add in a “Best Of Lynyrd Skynyrd” CD collection and all the “HeeHaw” episodes on DVD to sweeten the deal, I told ‘em to stick it.
I’m confused. Is Obama smart enough not to let three Irish guys drink in his house, or…
It seems to me that I read somewhere that this all started because Gates did not provide proper ID to prove he is who he said he is.He showed his Harvard faculty ID.I don’t know about anyone else,but I carried a photo ID from my place of employment for thirty years,and the only places that it was accepted were my workplace and my credit union.No police officer would be allowed to accept an employee ID as valid.
I am quite sure Gates has a drivers license or state ID but he deliberately chose not to present either,but instead created a problem where none existed.
Many people have claimed he was upset by his long plane ride and the fact that he had trouble getting the door open,He did say that he knew there was a problem with the door previously.So, being the brilliant scholar that he is why hadn’t he gotten the door fixed?I am also quite sure this wasn’t the first time he had jetlag.
No, sorry libs, this was all just another racebaiter doing what they do best–being a pain in everyone else’s a$$.He probably thought he could bait Crowley into doing something he could sue for.
Crowley should have told Obama to KMA.Insted of a theaching moment,this should be a learning moment for the two racehustlers i.e.when you insult someone,you apologize.
If you mowed your lawn, you might find a couple of wrecks already there.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned the waterboarding Gates received at the station by Dick Cheney. My understanding is that they got him to define “collegial”…
Make that 2 more beers. Crowley is bringing a union guy and a lawyer. 3 against 2.
The only people tortured here are the people who have to be around this Gates guy for any period of time. The Boston PD was in a box with an insect in it as soon as they got him in the station.
The DOJ has notified Oklahoma that unless we cease and desist our efforts to make english the official language of the state, we can forget our federal funding.
Our response was “huh?” what specific federal funding and why Oklahoma?
You should recuse yourself from such judgments.
In “THE GREAT STATE OF TEXAS”…..If we see someone breaking into a neighbors house we shoot them!!!
We know our neighbors & help them when they need it…..ie shot bad guys or help them get their house ….
PS. “BAD GUYS” come in all colors we show no favoritism we shot them all….
GOD BLESS TEXAS !!!!!!!
Jet:
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/07/23/the-dont-taze-me-bro-moment-of-henry-louis-gates/comment-page-33/#comment-760371
…join the fun. It’s monster thread!
And you know that…how?
OK, tough guy…would you say that to Crowley’s face?…Didn’t think so.
Yep.
She immediately lowers the happiness quotient…sort of like subtraction by addition.
Agreed.
You beat me to it.
And does anyone know who put Whalen up to holding a press conference?
Or, did that idea just pop into her head?
I do not see the controversy with Gates’ arrest at all. I’ve personally seen much less than this (involving an elderly White woman) where someone would not cooperate with the police in a medical facility. The woman practically asked the police to take her into custody, so they did.
This angry White-hating person was going far out of his way to make a scene, to get in the policeman’s face. All the cop wanted to know was Gates’ identification, and Gates came back with “you don’t know who you’re messin’ with!” And no, the cop didn’t know “who” he was, and in Gates’ mind THAT was the problem.
This small-minded, angry person is an entitlement-peddler, he preaches the same hate as ALL of Obama’s “mentors” (such as Jeremiah Wright), and he practically ASKED the cop to act in the way that he did. Gates’ deranged hatred for White people drove the entire episode.
If I saw what had happened in this case happening with an old White guy behaving the way Gates did in the face of a Black cop, I’d expect no less to happen to him than happened to Gates.
Here’s some good advice for barry.
Ummm, OK.
Ah, I get it. You used absurdity to illustrate the absurd. See! You have been listening to Rush Limbaugh.
In the future, please remember I’m not your student. If I had been, I would’ve sued your school faster than a Duke Lacrosse player.
OMG! 3300+ posts! …server’s gonna break!
Let me help you out by re-posting what I said, because it contians the answer to your question.
From my post #69
Maybe they will discuss Officer Crowley’s questionable police report.
At Lucia Whalen’s press conference she stated what actually happened and the 911 call supports her contention that Officer Crowley’s police report is in question?
And, I said it before and will say it again. Lucia Whalen should be invited to the WH, too.
Did you miss the bold type from the original post?
Whalen’s statement, the 911 call, and the tape of the Dispatcher, all contradict what is said in Crowley’s police report. Therefore making the report questionable.
Is having more information a bad thing?
Ok lgm, I want you to tell me specifically what you think the Sgt. lied about in his report, and explain how *you know* it’s a lie.
And then I, a person who has written literally thousands of police reports on everything from jay-walking to homicide, is going rip you a new…..uh, we’re going to have a teachable moment.
And BTW, Gates refusing to show me a government issued form of identification would have got him hooked up for interfering with a police officer in the performance of their duty, as well as disorderly conduct. And they would have stuck too. The pen is mightier than the .45 ACP when it comes to police work.
So go ahead lgm, dazzle me.
If I were the sergeant I would have told both of them I have plenty of Sam Adams in my fridge, and I’m kinda particular who I drink with. Obama is lucky I wasn’t the arresting officer, because my comments to reporters would be DOMINATING the news cycle, bet on it.
Are we the taxpayers going to pay for Prof Gates to stay at the White House tonight with his friend?
I am sure Crowley and crew has to go back to Cambridge.
On July 30th, 2009 at 3:02 pm, zyzzyg said:
“At Lucia Whalen’s press conference she stated what actually happened and the 911 call supports her contention that Officer Crowley’s police report is in question?”
Don’t mean to beat a dead horse but you are wrong. The police report says that he talked to her at the scene and she said 2 black men with backpacks. I have not heard her deny anything she said to the police at the scene – only what she said to 911.
Hey, who’s up for a teachable moment party?
Liquor in the front, poke us in the rear.
Just because officer Crowley inadvertently attributed to Whalen having stated the two men’s race in his report, doesn’t mean he misstated the facts of what happened.
Police officers are human. The lingering adrenaline rush of a verbal confrontation could understandably have caused him to misconstrue what was explicitly said, as he tried to compose his report after the event.
Gates is lucky not to have ended up on his belly looking at the floor of the nice university-provided house while the police officers verified his identity, not because he was black, but because the police officers were going into a situation with minimal information. The way the world is today, police officers should concentrate on officer safety in the absence of information. The fact that the caller stated that the people who were trying to get into the house may have lived there is the probable reason that Sgt. Crowley merely asked for identification. Apparently asking someone for identification while investigating a possible break-in is racist, if you’re Gates.
ECS
From the Boston Globe -
“Yesterday, in her first public comments, Whalen contradicted a police report by the arresting officer, saying she had never told Cambridge police Sergeant James Crowley that the men were black. She said she barely talked to Crowley.
“The only words I exchanged were [that] I was the 911 caller, and he pointed to me and said, ‘Stay right there,’ ’’ she said during a press conference at Danehy Park in Cambridge.”
Read it for yourself -
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2009/07/30/whalen_says_she_would_call_911_again/
And then there are tactical considerations; What if there really were burglars in the house, just out of sight holding guns on Gates and telling him to ‘get rid of the police’? It’s not uncommon.
How big do you think *that* law suit would be?
“didn’t even care about a black man! Just walked away when you *SHOULD* have known something was wrong!! The lady TOLD you she saw two men break in!!!! Are you stupid?!?!?!?!?, It’s because he was black huh? Racist!!!
This kind of stuff is why I discourage anyone who asks me about going in to law enforcement- I’m already doomed, you don’t have to be. Here be dragons lad.
Correct, DBN – and in fact, if anything, the report is spot on correct; it was a case of two black men attempting what looked to be a B&E job.
That’s simply a fact that no one can refute.
Correct, DBN – and in fact, if anything, the report is spot on correct; it was a case of two black men attempting what looked to be a B&E job.
That’s simply a fact that no one can refute.
Has anyone heard the tape of the dispatch call?
Did the dispatcher say “two males, unknown race and clothing description, RP states both were wearing back backs”
OR
“Two males, possibly black or hispanic…”
What the dispatcher tells the officer is critical- that’s your only source of info going in and has an effect on how you perceive things when you arrive.
31Bravo, thanks for your service. I’m still amazed anyone wouldn’t be thankful to have (a) watchful neighbors and (b) police respond and make sure you’re ok.
On July 30th, 2009 at 3:50 pm, zyzzyg said:
I stand corrected.
But now for the part that does not make sense to me. Where is the cab driver? Was he black? Was he still at the scene? If not, and assuming he is black, how did Crowley know there were 2 black men trying to get in the door? Someone had to tell him. Or have I missed something else?
This is important. And the police knew that the report said “two men” and they arrive and find one. Hmm, where’s the other one and what’s he up to?
Lesson – help the police help you.
Meanwhile, in other news, the Obama Administration is working to end free enterprise and replace it with a cradle-to-grave nanny-welfare state…
Wonder how that beer’s going down.
Did you know – recession is when your neighbor loses his job, depression is when you lose your job and recovery is when Obama loses his job.
On July 30th, 2009 at 1:13 pm, purplepeep said:
About another falsehood perpetuated about this case: the house is not “Gate’s home”, it’s University-owned property the police were protecting.
No, I don’t think it’s a big deal legally, Salt. I’m more making the point we’re talking “public housing”, something taxpayers pick up at least part of the tab for, not Gates.
e.g. if vandals spraypaint a local school or trash a bus shelter, it impacts the general public.
Without getting into semantic hair-splitting, my observation was stressing ownership. Unless you’re talking about a condo-type situation where a private party has laid down $$$ to have personal claim to a unit, such complexes are owned by a management company.
Now, semantically speaking, a wino who “sleeps it off” under his favorite bridge is welcome to call the bridge “his home”. (But it’d make my eyes roll)
I believe a lot of squads are also equipped with printouts for conveyance of info, photos and such, 31B. Dunno if that was the case here.
Listen to the tapes yourselves. The 911 call, the dispatcher tape, and what is said after Officer Crowley arrives.
http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/homepage/x1641098074/Audio-Cambridge-police-release-911-tape-in-Gates-arrest?popular=true
Nothing heard on the tapes, or said by Lucia Whalen at her press conference supports what Officer Crowley wrote in his police report.
There is dispute and therefor the police report is questionable.
No worries.
Yep, it is the trying to make sense of it all that is troubling.
I have been unable to learn anything about the Cab Driver. Chances are pretty good that he had already left.
When Officer Crowley showed up, Lucia Whalen was still there and he could have engaged her more thoroughly, asking more questions, before going to the house.
Exactly, and therein lies the rub. How did Officer Crowley know that the individuals were black? Or, why he said so in the police report. Did he have a conversation with Mr. Gates in the house and determine then that the Cab Driver was black?
I think we are all missing something. And, that is why I asked, is there anything wrong with having more information?
Sorry folks, but I keep seeing this kind of misstatement and I can’t let it stand. Please don’t conflate the Cambridge PD with Boston’s PD; they are two wholly separate entities.
On top of which, Cambridge is often referred to not just as another town/city, but as another country – that’s how different Cambridge is. There’s a lot more than the Charles River dividing Cambridge from Boston, not the least thing being how utterly PC Cambridge is. It makes Boston seem conservative by comparison.
the 911 call has NOTHING to do with the arrest, obamas shoving his head up his own a$$ on national tv over this issue or racism of any kind.
The facts are quite clear that the only racist person here left in handcuffs and that he earned them.
The individual was identified by Gates himself as his limo driver, not a cabbie.
And in his report (aka a summary of the event written after its conclusion), Crowley knew that the they were black because at that point he’d seen them with his own two eyes.
Sheesh….
Sheesh, indeed, Stranger. I expect it would be hard to miss someone who the uber-racist Gates himself described saying, “My driver is a large black man“.
However the only point to note on all this is that no one disputes that it was a case of two black men attempting a possible B&E in progress. That’s 100% correct, as everyone here will agree.
First, gee I wonder why they won’t release the tapes of Gates’ call to the PD demanding to speak with the Chief?
I listened to the dispatch tapes and you can tell ‘someone’ is in the background and if nothing else popping off about something.
The info from the RP was at best disjointed and incomplete, the dispatcher sent the officer to a possible burglary with suspects still inside- if you have never responded to a call like that it has a pucker factor of about 9, so it would be expected that the responding units would be on guard and acting in a tactical manner until they knew what was up. Most residential burgs DO occur during the day, when people are at work see?
Now if you get there, a burglary in progress with suspects still in the residence, and the first person you talk to is uncooperative, refusing to properly identify themselves and getting hostile towards you- there is NO COP in the world who is not immediately going think something is not right here.
And possibly Hispanic to a cop means, also possibly some other race with dark skin too- we know witnesses can mistake one for the other when they are seeing from a distance, it’s only good tactics to do so.
Frankly, the tapes prove nothing other than they had an ‘uncooperative’(because you can’t say azz hole on the air) person found in the residence of a possible burg in progress, and that’s about the extent of what the tapes can reasonably be said to reveal.
I did notice that ’52′ wanted to go the secondary freq and that other units could not raise him for a short time- possibly because Gates loud mouth was keeping him from hearing his handset??
I think there is a definite reason they are not releasing the tape of his call to get the Chief on the horn, and someone needs to do a FOIA request to get it released asap.
Hi purplepeep!
My other half and I are getting so tired of this whole circus, with people looking for ways to indict Sgt. Crowley, who was simply doing his job.
Besides the fact that Gates himself had already identified his driver, I had to laugh at the idea that the “renowned Harvard scholar”, who owns a house on Martha’s Vineyard, would stand in line at Logan to hop a cab home to the People’s Republic of Cambridge after the long, tiring flight from China (the excuse everyone was making for his rant was that he was “tired” after his trip); he’d have a private reservation limousine waiting to pick him up (and that’s usually just a town car, not a stretch for those who are indulging in fantasies). And while a limo driver would be likely to extend the service to carrying suitcases (or backpacks or grocery bags or whatever) up onto the professor’s porch (and helping him open the recalcitrant door), it’s a very rare cabbie who’d do the same. I know how it works.
I’m still curious to know if there’s any dashboard camera footage with audio. I’m also with blues (comment #150) in that the Harvard I.D. wouldn’t have been sufficient in proving he lived at that residence. He just got off a plane, didn’t he? Did he get on it with his Harvard I.D.?
Howdy Stranger -
Yeah, what happened is Obama stepped in some deep doo-doo on this, his poll numbers dropped, and so the diversionary tactic is to wildly attempt to demonize a fine police officer (one by everyone’s account).
I also don’t know of too many cabbies/limo drivers who will agree to join in on what could just have easily been an actually illegal entry. “Sure, I’ll help you tear the doors off!”. What kind of goofball gets mixed up in something like that?
Though this driver woud seem to be assigned to him personally as an ongoing thing.
I’m thinking the only error the police made was in not transferring Gate’s custody over to a local public mental health institution for a mandatory 3-day hold for psychiatric observation. Put the jackass in a straightjacket & let him scream his signature scholar “Yo mama! Yo mamma!!” quote until he was hoarse.
I cannot wait for ol big ears to screw his post beer recap of the conversation between all the parties…..
Oh…..yeah….
The One has one very bad case of diarrhea of the mouth, combined with foot-in-mouth disease. The next presser when this comes up will be another “teachable moment” that he just can’t pass on.
And that’s a good thing – the more he goes on about his race-based obsessions, the faster his poll numbers drop.
Good lord they let Joe “I voted against the Alaskan Pipeline” Biden join them.
Biden + Beer = Upcoming Classic Soundbites
Has Michelle gone soft on elitism? Officer Crowley chose to drink Blue Moon at the “beer summit.” What kind of man drinks a microbrew spiced with coriander in which you’re supposed to put ORANGE?
And the Kenyan usurper is drinking a classically American Bud Light!