8 days later, I think we can comment on the issue. Unlike Obama who has made a fool of himself and shown why he is not responsible enough to hold the office he was entrusted with ... he a lawyer, should know, was taught and raised NOT to make ANY judgment until ALL the facts are in, and what did he do - almost immediately called the actions of the police officer - stupid. Despite the White House protestations to the contrary - he did call the officers actions stupid. The White House can call it green or purple, it doesn't change the fact he did call the police officers actions stupid.
Just as he is doing with health care - all the facts are not in, all points and issues not considered - and he wants to act. Just as he did with Guantanamo - he acted without all the facts. Just as he has done on Honduras - he acted without all the facts. Just as he has done every day for the past seven months - he has acted without all the facts. Now he regrets the fact this has grown legs and is walking out the door. Well Mr. Obama, you should have not opened your mouth and it would never have become as big of an issue as it has, and every time you open your mouth it goes to the issue of your naivete - not the fact someone else is blowing this out of proportion.
The left obfuscate and then wander off into oblivion after creating their own reality they then argue about.
The facts are - a call was received from the neighbor about a possible break in. Why did she think so? A man was leaning into the door - which is odd in itself until we learn that the house had had a break in days before. The police are summoned and the officer speaks to the woman who called, she points over to the house. The officer goes over ...
The police report fills in all the rest of the details.
What the media are not including in their story is the break in that resulted in the door locks being unusable. The neighborhood had had break-ins, that house had been broken in to a short time before, the neighbors didn't know Gates because he was renting the property from the school.
And Obama has to call the officer stupid. The officer tries to leave, is walking away, and Gates is following after him screaming. Warnings were given - in fact, the officer pulls out his cuffs and shows them to Gates ... warning after warning ... and he just cannot shut up.
I wonder if Gates realizes the damage he has done to Obama, or is he obsessed with himself.
[Obama lost more support with that one stupid comment than several months worth of ignorant and irresponsible ramblings.]
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 - Updated 6h ago
Boston Herald
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.”
Upon receiving Gates’ Harvard ID, Crowley wrote he radioed in to request “the presence of the Harvard University Police.”
In a radio interview yesterday morning with WEEI’s John Dennis and Gerry Callahan, Crowley, a 42-year-old father of three, said he hasn’t heard the tapes.
“One of my first transmissions was to slow the units down and I’m in the residence with somebody I believe resides here, but he’s being very uncooperative. So, that’s in real time,” Crowley told the sports-talk hosts.
“I’m not really sure how much you could hear from Professor Gates, you know, in the background. I, I don’t know. I haven’t heard the tapes.”
Haas did not share with reporters what can be heard on the tapes, but commented, “I don’t believe Sgt. Crowley acted with any racial motivation at all.”
Gates, 58, a world-renowned scholar and documentary filmmaker on black history, allegedly ranted to police at his Ware Street home, “This is what happens to black men in America!” and “You don’t know who you’re messing with!” in addition to verbally dragging Crowley’s mother into the fray.
“More often than not,” O’Donnell said, “as the facts come out, they are more favorable to the cop. It’s crucial in the sense that it provides independent evidence. There is no question it provides corroboration. He called the tapes potentially “crucial” to Crowley’s ability to defend himself against charges of racism.
Attorney Stuart London, who has defended countless cops in high-profile cases, including one of the NYPD officers charged in the 1998 beating and plunger torture of Abner Louima in 1998, said, “If (the officer is dealing) with someone who is not being cooperative and is unruly, (the tape) gives you more insight into the state of mind of the officer. That’s the most important part.”
“I don’t believe this officer did anything wrong, and given what we know, I don’t think he would be afraid to share the tapes at all, either,” said Thomas Nee, president of the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association. “It’s public record. From dispatch to conclusion, it’s all on tape.”
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