Posted on 07/25/2006 1:20:14 PM PDT by radar101
District of Columbia police commander returned to his position Monday after being reassigned for making a racially insensitive remark at a community meeting about the slaying of a British activist.
On July 10, Cmdr. Andy Solberg spoke to residents of the upscale Georgetown neighborhood who had gathered to express concern about the slaying of Alan Senitt, 27, a volunteer in the potential presidential campaign of former Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner.
Senitt's throat was slit a day earlier during a robbery as he and a female companion returned from a movie. Police say Senitt's attackers attempted to rape the companion.
"I would think that at 2 o'clock in the morning on the streets of Georgetown, a group of three people - one of whom is 15 years old, one of whom is a bald chunky fat guy - are going to stand out," said Solberg, referring to the suspects arrested in the case. "They were black. This is not a racial thing to say that black people are unusual in Georgetown. This is a fact of life."
Solberg, who is white, was reassigned the next day to the department's security services division, said Sgt. Joe Gentile, a police spokesman. But Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey said he reinstated Solberg after taking "corrective action."
Solberg is acting commander of the police district that includes Georgetown.
"I was wrong, the remarks were insensitive, and I have learned a lot in the past few weeks," he said Monday. "Anything like this should certainly give rise to some serious self-examination ... and I'm doing that."
Senitt, a Jewish activist, had moved to Washington to volunteer for Warner's potential presidential campaign and to study political fundraising.
He had worked for Greville Janner, a member of Britain's House of Lords from Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labor Party. He also was twice elected head of the Union of Jewish Students, which represents 5,000 college students in Britain, and ran unsuccessfully for a council seat in a London neighborhood.
The PC idiots are getting even more outrageous.
Translation: I am protecting my retirement and plan to get away from DC and Ramsey the first chance I get!
The last time I went through Georgetown, that wasn't exactly true. There is just a whole lot of white people walking around.
Is it racially sensitive to refer to someone's race in describing them. There was no slur or epithet or insult intended was there?
I hope also that prior to delivering the lesson he is writing he watches the Police Academy movies to become more sensitive to the challenges facing the recruits in training.
With tongue firmly planted in cheek, this officer would fit right in here on Free Republic.
I suppose we can substitute a chromameter reading or RGB value for skin colors.
Of course, "Attention all units, suspect has a skin color of 330000, 70 inches tall, last seen running..." probably won't help when an officer stops and asks witnesses if they'd seen a man with a skin tone of 330000 run by and in which direction.
Black people killing and raping white people - nothing to see here except a white police chief get PC...
The whole statement makes no sense. What question is he answering with that statement?
What a circus. If you're black, and it's mentioned, you cry "racial profiling"?
When a white perp is mentioned, no one says a word?
I guess today it's good to be recognized as ANY minority, if it means you GET something for free.....
Having to apologize for violating PC is foolish, but his statement is wrong. I spent a few days in the hospital after being assulted by a number of his "unusual people"...
We wandered through a few years ago, the only blacks we saw were husksters on street corners selling fake LV purses, etc.
Apparantly the African-American community in DC wants the cops to keep quiet about this ~
~ and I can't figure out a reason for it ~
Just keep an eye on crime reports in the paper. Often you won't see reference to the race of the suspect(s). That is the Orwellian insanity of Polical Correctness.
84 homicides in DC in just the first six months of this year.
Due to the dismal record of the police in solving homicides, there are a lot of murderers who have gotten away clean with killing other people freely walking the streets of DC these days.
PC=Pure Crap
Do you mean he was talking about the protected class?
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