how ridiculous.
If you are not going to cooperate, you should expect to take a trip downtown to sort out the facts.
I am not pro-cop, but he was effectively obstructing justice, or at the very least, acting disorderly.
Obama’s cops are going to love you. You’ll obey and won’t complain.
“I am not pro-cop, but he was effectively obstructing justice, or at the very least, acting disorderly.”
I am, pro cop and I agree with you, but not for the sake of being pro-cop, but pro-society.
Do you have a ‘right’ to talk about bombs while standing in line at the airport? Do you have a right to yell and scream at a judge in a courtroom? How the right against unreasonable search when you board an airplane or go to a courthouse?
The right to free speech is not absolute, and in my mind Prof Gates, by his behavior, was obstructing an active police investigation and acting disorderly.
The ‘stop snitching’ phenomena in the minority community is just another manifestation of the culture Gates promotes through his despicable actions towards Sgt Crowley.
The whole situation was over when got arrested. The cop was walking away when Gates followed him to the porch yelling cuss words and threats.
This is THE definition of Disorderly Conduct I would imagine and just like freedom of speech doesn’t cover yelling fire in a crowded theater, I would think it wouldn’t cover being a foul mouthed jerk to a police officer investigating a suspected crime.
Exactamundo. The cop is called to a scene which can either have a wholly benign or a wholly sinister (and therefore deadly) explanation. Certainly the subject’s race is not a factor which the cop can use in making his initial determination; but, just as certainly, the subject’s behavior and attitude are factors he properly considered.