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Posted on 07/23/2009 6:05:28 AM PDT by S.O.L.
The Cambridge cop prominent Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. claims is a racist gave a dying Reggie Lewis mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in a desperate bid to save the Celtics [team stats] superstar’s life 16 years ago Monday. “I wasn’t working on Reggie Lewis the basketball star. I wasn’t working on a black man. I was working on another human being,” Sgt. James Crowley, in an exclusive interview with the Herald, said of the forward’s fatal heart attack July 27, 1993, at age 27 during an off-season practice at Brandeis University, where Crowley was a campus police officer. It’s a date Crowley still can recite by rote - and he still recalls the pain he suffered when people back then questioned whether he had done enough to save the black athlete. “Some people were saying ‘There’s the guy who killed Reggie Lewis’ afterward. I was broken-hearted. I cried for many nights,” he said. Crowley, 42, said he’s not a racist, despite how some have cast his actions in the Gates case. “Those who know me know I’m not,” he said. Yesterday, Lewis’ widow, Donna Lewis, was floored to learn the embattled father of three on the thin blue line of a national debate on racism in America was the same man so determined to rescue her husband. “That’s incredible,” Lewis, 44, exclaimed. “It’s an unfortunate situation. Hopefully, it can resolve itself. The most important thing is peace.” Gates, 58, an acclaimed scholar on black history and a PBS documentarian, went on the attack against Crowley on Tuesday, demanding he apologize for arresting him for disorderly conduct last Thursday while investigating a reported break-in at his home. Gates, returning from a trip, was seen by a Malden woman trying to force his front door open. Police alleged he initially refused to identify himself. Though he harbors no “ill feelings toward the professor,” a calm, resolute Crowley said no mea culpa will be forthcoming. “I just have nothing to apologize for,” he said. “It will never happen.” Attorney Charles Ogletree, Gates’ close friend and fellow Harvard savant, told the Herald, “It’s regrettable and unfortunate that the officer feels that way, and I do hope that some progress will be made in healing this wound.” Gates, who upon his arrest allegedly bellowed to a gathering crowd on Ware Street, “This is what happens to black men in America!” believes he was targeted by Crowley - whom he called a “rogue” cop - because of his race. Cambridge Police Commissioner Robert Haas, with Gates attorney Walter Prince’s consent, agreed Tuesday to drop the charge of disorderly conduct, calling the incident “an unfortunate set of circumstances.” Crowley, an 11-year veteran of the force, oversees the evidence room, paid details and records unit. He also coaches youth basketball, baseball and softball. Joseph McDonald, a former director of public safety at Brandeis, said Crowley was “a real pro,” calling Gates’ racial profiling charge “strange.” “You just do the job as a cop. You don’t look at the color of skin. You’re just trying to help people,” said McDonald, 57. In a statement expressing its “full and unqualified support” for Crowley, the Cambridge Police Superior Officers Association called its brother a “highly respected veteran supervisor with a distinguished record. “His actions at the scene of this matter were consistent with his training, with the informed policies and practices of the department and with applicable legal standards.” Case reopens debate:
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I have written to the President Faust of Harvard University that Gates is an embarrassment to her school and if there is a conduct unbecoming clause in his contract, it should be exercised.
Her email address is: president@harvard.edu
Both Gates and Obama should be required to take sensitivity training and should fully apologize to Sgt. Crowley. A full apology is not one of those half-a$$ed ones in which someone says I am sorry if you were stupidly offended, but rather a real one where someone says I was solely and completely wrong and I am sorry I was wrong.
Further Gates should be required to lecture to Harvard students about how not to be stupid in a dangerous situation. As Obama says if he was caught trying to break into his current house he would have been shot. Fortunately the Cambridge police were not that stupid.
But Obama called him stupid and racist.
Obama opened up a big whoop ass can of worms. He will regret the moment he delved into this debate.
Even in liberal Boston, the cop is being supported 95-5 on Boston.com and BostonHerald.com boards. People were otraged at this prossional race baiter to begin with, and now with the president chiming in, they’re pissed.
He just lost every white cop in America. And a huge chunk of the white working class types.
His poll numbers will tank.
LOLOL!!! Gates and Zero are gonna find out what the true meaning of “acting stupidly” is. They picked on the wrong person to single out.
He is in SORE NEED of humility ( and probably a good solid spanking, which the liberals would never allow ).
Sgt. Crowley is owed an an apology because he answered a call for help.
Gates would be the FIRST to hollar RACIST if his house was vandalized and not one of the neighbors had called the police for protection.
However...Gates can count on no one bothering to help protect his property now (tho I think I read he had lost his key and was calling the person who owned the house when the police arrived)
That’s music to my ears!
I think Donna Lewis could’ve been a little more supportive of a man who tried to save her husband’s life.
From all that I’ve read on this matter it’s Gates that needs to apologize. Okay, so he was exhausted from his trip, frustrated because he locked himself, whatever .... he still should not have acted that way toward the officer reporting to investigate a possible break-in.
And Obama needs to apologize for saying the police “acted stupidly” when he didn’t even know all the facts.
Wonder if 0 thinks it was stupid for the Prof to lock himself out of his own house.
Nobody is calling the question at the news conference was
a set-up!
"racist" an Orwellain term that means hate whitey. He shouldn't be having to "deny" anything. Gates, the Black Jesus, the MSM and all the white hating, anti-West Marxist are the ones who need to explain their "racism".
Its time we gave Obama and all the race baiters foot to *ss resuscitation.
The Obama Administration supports blacks attacking
whites in the polling booths. Hard to believe, but true.
So what should we call this? Gates Gate?
Read what Chicago police officers have to say about the racist in chief and this:
Go to:
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People like Gates have climbed the ladder by shaming innocent white people all along the way. His fraudulent, narcissistic behavior is totally expected, frankly, and should be an embarrassment to his race in 2009.
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