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Black scholar accuses police of racism after being arrested trying to break into home
Telegraph UK ^ | 7/21/09

Posted on 07/21/2009 8:02:38 AM PDT by FromLori

Henry Louis Gates Jr, America's most famous black scholar, has accused local police of racism after he was arrested while trying to break into his own home near Harvard University.

According to a police report, officers in Cambridge, Massachusetts, were called to the house on Thursday afternoon after a woman said she had seen a man "wedging his shoulder into the front door as to pry the door open".

According to police, an officer ordered the man to identify himself and Prof Gates refused.

He allegedly began calling the officer a racist, repeatedly saying: "This is what happens to black men in America." Officers said they tried to calm down the 58-year-old academic only for him to tell them: "You don't know who you're messing with." Prof Gates, who was named as one of the 25 most influential Americans by Time magazine in 1997, was arrested on a disorderly conduct charge after police said he "exhibited loud and tumultuous behaviour". He was released later that day and is due to appear in court next month. He is the director of Harvard University's WEB du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blacks; crime; gates; harvard; henrygates; mrskippy; professor; racism; racist
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To: detective

Maybe but I tend to think it is just their way of thinking. Did you see this?

N.O.’s Nagin Wants Census Credit for Ex-Residents
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/us_new_orleans_census/2009/07/20/237903.html


41 posted on 07/21/2009 8:22:02 AM PDT by FromLori (FromLori)
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To: Niuhuru
The name of the officer is “Ma’am,” or “Sir.” Form of address is “No Sir/Yes Sir” “No Ma’am/Yes Ma’am.” Make the job as easy as possible for the officer. If you go to the police, they will be in a better mood than if they have to go to you.

Just common sense. But I'm afraid that too many leftist professors have underdeveloped common sense. Especially when their line of work is to preserve and cultivate a money making chip on the shoulder. The world as a whole would be a better place if everybody behaved with an air of mutual respect and a presumption of common civility, letting the other guy make the first decent into pettiness.

42 posted on 07/21/2009 8:26:05 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Lx
You’re correct. If I get stopped, I pull over safely with signals. Shut down the car. Roll down the windows and place both of my hands on the steering wheel. When he asks for ID, I ask permission to reach for it in my back pocket. I gotten out of a lot of tickets using that simple procedure and even when I get one, the officer is always cool and relaxed.

Bingo!
I do the same and have gotten out of numerous tickets.
43 posted on 07/21/2009 8:26:59 AM PDT by frankenMonkey (www.citizendirect.org - this domain name for sale)
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To: NMEwithin
Oh please...this actually happened to me once and I am white. I locked myself out of the house and was trying to get in a window when the cops showed up. I told them I was the owner of the house, showed my ID and that was the end of it.

Don't give into repression by the man! Policeman risking their lives to protect a person's safety and property? I would be outraged! No Justice, No Peas!

44 posted on 07/21/2009 8:28:00 AM PDT by Kowdawg
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To: Lx

“even when I get one, the officer is always cool and relaxed.”

At worst, I had to pay the fine and no ticket and no points. I always ask and then turn on the ceiling light before reaching into the glove box for my stuff. ALWAYS keeping my hands in sight and pointing out verbally when I am moving them in ANY spot that might not be in their perfect view.


45 posted on 07/21/2009 8:29:20 AM PDT by Niuhuru (The internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: FromLori
He allegedly began calling the officer a racist

And if the officer were black... he'd be an Uncle Tom, working for The Man to keep a Brother down?

Sheesh...

46 posted on 07/21/2009 8:29:21 AM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: WakeUpAndVote
"Who pissed in his Cheerios?"

The white power structure, of course. Do we really have to ask anymore?

47 posted on 07/21/2009 8:29:28 AM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde (America: Home of the Free Because of the Brave)
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To: jtal

“he followed the cops into his front yard berating and threatening them AFTER they had decided to leave”

OH MY FREAKING GOD!!!! How dare he! There are times like this when I wish the Chinese would run our justice (or at least police) system and show this pig a thing or two about respecting your officer of the law.


48 posted on 07/21/2009 8:30:42 AM PDT by Niuhuru (The internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: FromLori
PWN3D!

49 posted on 07/21/2009 8:32:23 AM PDT by evets (beer)
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50 posted on 07/21/2009 8:33:41 AM PDT by WakeUpAndVote
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To: evets

lol is that his mug shot?


51 posted on 07/21/2009 8:34:26 AM PDT by FromLori (FromLori)
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To: FromLori

My, what an original accusation! NOT!


52 posted on 07/21/2009 8:34:44 AM PDT by apocalypto
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To: BradyLS
They are scholars who happen to be black. Gates is a Black Scholar.
53 posted on 07/21/2009 8:35:33 AM PDT by Arguendo
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To: FromLori
Ha ha, It's from Foxnews.com.

Police: "Excuse me sir, we had a report of a 'break in'..."

Gates: "Get off my porch cracker!"
54 posted on 07/21/2009 8:38:02 AM PDT by evets (beer)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Sounds like another black liberal with a chip on his shoulder. All he had to do was stop and show that he lived there.

He did! He showed the copy his Harvard ID and driver's license and they still arrested him! Perhaps conservatives should recognize that blacks could also be an emerging abusive police state.

55 posted on 07/21/2009 8:38:38 AM PDT by Captain Kirk
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To: FromLori
According to police, an officer ordered the man to identify himself and Prof Gates refused.

He allegedly began calling the officer a racist, repeatedly saying: "This is what happens to black men in America." Officers said they tried to calm down the 58-year-old academic only for him to tell them: "You don't know who you're messing with."

Well, if he would have identified himself, they would have known who they were messing with!

Sheesh.

56 posted on 07/21/2009 8:41:02 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: apocalypto
My, what an original accusation! NOT!

. If you were black, showed the cops proof (driver's license and Harvard ID) that you lived at the address, they refused to show their badges, and then arrested you in your own home, you'd be screaming "racism" too. If conservatives really are against big government, perhaps someday they will stop taking the government's side all the time when the victim happens to be black and the perp happens to be a cop.

57 posted on 07/21/2009 8:42:34 AM PDT by Captain Kirk
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To: FromLori

Dumbass.

He obviously has not seen this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj0mtxXEGE8

Rule #2: “Use common sense.”
Also: “Be polite.”


58 posted on 07/21/2009 8:44:29 AM PDT by john in springfield (One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe such things.No ordinary man could be such a fool.)
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To: FromLori

“he followed the cops into his front yard berating and threatening them AFTER they had decided to leave”

He wanted to provoke an incident and then claim racism. It happens all the time.


59 posted on 07/21/2009 8:44:56 AM PDT by detective
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To: Disambiguator
Well, if he would have identified himself, they would have known who they were messing with!

They isn't what Gates says. He says that presented the copy with a picture ID and then was arrested in his own hom. Why do you automatically take the word of a governmnent official over a citizen homeowner? I thought conservatives were suspicious of big government,

60 posted on 07/21/2009 8:45:27 AM PDT by Captain Kirk
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