Public hears from Gates arrest review panel for first time ("happens every night in Cambridge")

http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/features/x690800417/Public-hears-from-Gates-arrest-review-panel-for-first-time ^ | January 28, 2010 | Jillian Fennimore

[ConservativeStatement]

Cambridge — A group of skeptical residents put members of the review panel formed in the wake of the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates on the hot seat Wednesday night, curious as to what their purpose was in Cambridge.

Three members of the “Cambridge Review Committee” – charged with identifying the “lessons learned” for the city, police department, and the nation – spoke at the new Main Library during their first community forum.

“It’s not the committee that will make a lasting impression on Cambridge, it’s about the people that can help educate each other,” said John Kosko, a committee member and trained mediator from Cambridge. “That is the ultimate objective.”

[ConservativeStatement]

The event was catered by ObamaBeer /sarc.

[Frantzie]

The police there “act stupidly.”

[equalitybeforethelaw]

Wow, glad I don’t live in Cambridge. This 20 year old panel seems to really be on the cutting edge of a blosoming society. What a joke. Libs, jobs for slobs, the man be steping on me, oh yeah, the man he work for me. Confusing isn’t it?

[maine-iac7]

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