Professor Gates

[mhall]

Alright after the guy shows his I.D. that he in fact does live there he should not have been taken to jail. However it sounds as if he was very confrontational with the responding officer and lit the fire to the fuse almost automatically when the police showed up. This guy is a known and renowned drum beater of so-called racial profiling, black rights ect.

I say alll that to say this. Should PRESIDENT Obama have said what he did? He starts by saying that he didn't know all the facts and wasn't there, but the Cambridge Police acted Stupidly, his words. Contradictary don't you think, that statement??? Went on to say Gates was his personal friend, wow, there's shocker, lol.

Should he have said what he did, was it the proper forum, for me NO!

[GeoFisher]

no, he should not have.......

[GeoFisher]

Alright after the guy shows his I.D. that he in fact does live there he should not have been taken to jail. However it sounds as if he was very confrontational with the responding officer and lit the fire to the fuse almost automatically when the police showed up. This guy is a known and renowned drum beater of so-called racial profiling, black rights ect.

I say alll that to say this. Should PRESIDENT Obama have said what he did? He starts by saying that he didn't know all the facts and wasn't there, but the Cambridge Police acted Stupidly, his words. Contradictary don't you think, that statement??? Went on to say Gates was his personal friend, wow, there's shocker, lol.

Should he have said what he did, was it the proper forum, for me NO!

Gates is another BLACK man with a chip on his shoulder.......HE along with the Sharptons of the world continue the VICIOUS circle of racism..........

The police officer was there TRYING to PROTECT Gates's property.....

Gates escalated the issue by becoming combative.........AND he GOT ARRESTED......it is a **** SHAME the charges were dropped......but that probably happened because Hates.......I MEAN gates has a high priced harvard lawyer friend defending him..........The PD didn't want to spend the money prosecuting this FOOL.

Finally if the police officer was as bad as GATES says, then why would this be said about him??

"Fellow officers, black and white, say he is well-liked and respected on the force. Crowley was a campus police officer at Brandeis University in July 1993 when he administered CPR trying to save the life of former Boston Celtics player Reggie Lewis. Lewis, who was black, collapsed and died during an off-season workout."

HM.........Gates is...........a BLACK man, who has OBVIOUSLY been kept down by white man's society....


Later,

Geo

[Tom523]

Gates is another BLACK man with a chip on his shoulder.......HE along with the Sharptons of the world continue the VICIOUS circle of racism..........

The police officer was there TRYING to PROTECT Gates's property.....

Gates escalated the issue by becoming combative.........AND he GOT ARRESTED......it is a **** SHAME the charges were dropped......but that probably happened because Hates.......I MEAN gates has a high priced harvard lawyer friend defending him..........The PD didn't want to spend the money prosecuting this FOOL.

Finally if the police officer was as bad as GATES says, then why would this be said about him??

"Fellow officers, black and white, say he is well-liked and respected on the force. Crowley was a campus police officer at Brandeis University in July 1993 when he administered CPR trying to save the life of former Boston Celtics player Reggie Lewis. Lewis, who was black, collapsed and died during an off-season workout."

HM.........Gates is...........a BLACK man, who has OBVIOUSLY been kept down by white man's society....


Later,

Geo

If he was a black man kept down by society then how did he become a professor at Harvard?....... Did you notice that Obama has a lot of friends that are black activists.
PS: I'm not racist! I'm just full of "white Pride"!

[DJD]

Gates is another BLACK man with a chip on his shoulder.......HE along with the Sharptons of the world continue the VICIOUS circle of racism..........

The police officer was there TRYING to PROTECT Gates's property.....

Gates escalated the issue by becoming combative.........AND he GOT ARRESTED......it is a **** SHAME the charges were dropped......but that probably happened because Hates.......I MEAN gates has a high priced harvard lawyer friend defending him..........The PD didn't want to spend the money prosecuting this FOOL.

Finally if the police officer was as bad as GATES says, then why would this be said about him??

"Fellow officers, black and white, say he is well-liked and respected on the force. Crowley was a campus police officer at Brandeis University in July 1993 when he administered CPR trying to save the life of former Boston Celtics player Reggie Lewis. Lewis, who was black, collapsed and died during an off-season workout."

HM.........Gates is...........a BLACK man, who has OBVIOUSLY been kept down by white man's society....


Later,

Geo

Maybe Michelle O. isn't proud to be an American anymore? Boo Hoo

[GeoFisher]

Maybe Michelle O. isn't proud to be an American anymore? Boo Hoo

I'm surprised that woman ever made those remarks........SHE is a first class TRAITOR.

Sorry, but thats the way I feel........if you're not proud to be an American, embrace your African heritage, and MOVE........

Later,

Geo.

[GeoFisher]

Here's a hypothetical for you.......

If the cop would have been BLACK, what would Gates have done.

* Would he have questioned the authority of a BLACK Cop??

* Would he have called the cop an Uncle Tom, or WORSE..........you know what I mean.

I think both of the above would have happened.......the more I think about it, Gates was looking for his 15 minutes of fame, and this cop just so happened to provide it.

I believe GATES will milk this for ALL it is WORTH, including, photo ops with POTUS, a book deal, a PBS special.......hell, maybe even a MOVIE.

Yep............gotta love it.

Later,

Geo

[apb]

...Should PRESIDENT Obama have said what he did? He starts by saying that he didn't know all the facts and wasn't there, but the Cambridge Police acted Stupidly, his words. ...

I think he should have waited until the facts were in. From what I've read online, it seems that the cops were just doing their job and checking the house out because a neighbor had called them about someone breaking into the house. If that is the case, Gates should have shown his ID and then thanked them for checking out the house.

Couple other things I found online. In Massachusetts, it's not really a crime to be disorderly in your own home. The crime of disordely conduct has to be committed in a public place, and be done with the intent to cause public alarm. And it shouldn't result in an arrest, since the Legislature made it non-jailable after July 1, 2009. There is no legal requirement to produce ID, either.

The fact that Gates stepped out of the house and followed the cop is what probably led to his arrest.

As far as the racist comments, it also appears that Gates was out of line. A few years back the same cop that arrested him came across a non-responsive black man and give him CPR and mouth to mouth until the parametics arrived.

Andrew

[mhall]

So we all agree.......But look at what side of the aisle Mr President automatically fell on, Hmmmmmm?? This makes Obama look bad in my opinion, true colors, no pun intended surfacing on this issue.........

[apb]

He fell on the side of a friend. I'm sure many of us would do the same. However, given that he is the pres, he should have gotten all the details before going out on a limb, in public, like he did. If the facts come out on the side of the cop (and preliminary evidence certainly suggests he was right), then I hope Obama is man enough to appologize to the cop.

Andrew

[Tom523]

I think he should have waited until the facts were in. From what I've read online, it seems that the cops were just doing their job and checking the house out because a neighbor had called them about someone breaking into the house. If that is the case, Gates should have shown his ID and then thanked them for checking out the house.

Couple other things I found online. In Massachusetts, it's not really a crime to be disorderly in your own home. The crime of disordely conduct has to be committed in a public place, and be done with the intent to cause public alarm. And it shouldn't result in an arrest, since the Legislature made it non-jailable after July 1, 2009. There is no legal requirement to produce ID, either.

The fact that Gates stepped out of the house and followed the cop is what probably led to his arrest.

As far as the racist comments, it also appears that Gates was out of line. A few years back the same cop that arrested him came across a non-responsive black man and give him CPR and mouth to mouth until the parametics arrived.

Andrew

Do you think that Gates could have set this whole thing up to further his agenda of protesting the treatment of blacks. I mean his neighbors know who he is and would recognize him would not call the police. It would not be out of the ordinary for a black person to be in that neighborhood because I'm certain that he has had black visitors. I would like to know who made the call to the police. It seems far flung to think that a person such as a neighbor that sees him often would call the police on a person of similar race and size of the owner of the house on his front porch.

[zx150]

I saw an interview with a neighbor and he said that the way Gates was acting he should have been arrested.

If I come to a house on a break-in in progress or a burglar alarm and you don't want to show ID and act like an *&^ and won't tell me your name. You can stay in the Jefferson Inn.

I don't care, I will head home at the end of my shift.