Posted on 07/23/2009 10:01:44 AM PDT by Scythian
The police officer who arrested a Harvard professor for disorderly conduct said Thursday he wants President Obama, who is the educator's friend, to butt out of the incident.
Cambridge, Mass., Sgt. James Crowley arrested Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his home last week after he responded to a report of two black men attempting to break in to Gates' home.
It turned out that Gates, head of Harvard's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, had broken into his own home after being unable to find his keys upon his return from a trip to China.
Asked about the incident, Obama, who is friends with the professor and documentary filmmaker, told reporters at a Wednesday night press conference that he didn't know all the facts. But he said, "the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home."
Crowley told WEEI sports radio network that it was "disappointing that (Obama) waded into what should be a local issue that plays out here."
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Any plans to nationalize the Cambridge Police Dept?
He may be sleeping with the fishes soon...
Obama is an arrogant race baiter...he’s like Sharpton without the perm.
He’s like Sharpton with big ears...
If that house was broken into and the police were not on top of things... the owner would have protested even more!!! Can’t win.
Good for the cop!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahaha ! ! ! ! *snort*... *cough*
The Policeman should get a “Medal of Honor” for performing his assigned Job under extremely adverse conditions! Obozo should keep his ears out of what he doesn’t know! but thats an Oxymoron:-)
if I hadn’t been driving last night when I heard Obamugwabe make that idiotic remark I would have fallen out of my chair. who is he to judge what a local police department did? I’m glad they arrested him.
Meddling marxist BUMP!
Well at least they agree on that one point.
Well, I should say at the outset that Skip Gates is a friend, so I may be a little biased here. I don't know all the facts. What's been reported though ...
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/07/22/president_addresses_arrest_of.html?hpid=topnews
“President Obama, who is the educator’s friend....It turned out that Gates, head of Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research,”
Wiki: n 1950, at the age of 82, Du Bois ran for the U.S. Senate on the American Labor Party ticket in New York and received four percent of the vote. Although he lost, Du Bois remained committed to the progressive labor cause. In 1958, he would join with Trotskyists, ex-Communists and independent radicals in proposing the creation of a united left-wing coalition to challenge for seats in elections for the New York State Senate and Assembly.
In the March 16, 1953, upon the death of Joseph Stalin, Du Bois controversially wrote of him in The National Guardian:
Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature. He was simple, calm and courageous. He seldom lost his poise; pondered his problems slowly, made his decisions clearly and firmly; never yielded to ostentation nor coyly refrained from holding his rightful place with dignity. He was the son of a serf but stood calmly before the great without hesitation or nerves. But also - and this was the highest proof of his greatness - he knew the common man, felt his problems, followed his fate.[38]
Anyone surprised?
Obama is definitely an arrogant race baiter, just like rev Jeremiah Wright.
Gates is the WEB DuBois Black studies scholar. WEB DuBois was a committed Marxist racist. WEB DuBois was a member of the Communist Party. My take on Gates is that he is a Marxist racist agitator.
Another of 0bama's Marxist friends.
Gates & Obamah should be blaming this incident on Gate’s Typical White Neighbor that was just trying to be a good neighbor reporting a break-in which was happening as Gates admitted the door was broken from a previous break-in.
Show the cop your ID, shut up, and be glad someone’s protecting your property. But the cop was white so he MUST be racist. Who has the problem here?
Did you read the police report, the guy who owned the house was very obnoxious, when the officer merely asked him if he would speak with him the guy shouted “Why because I am a black man in America”, this is rediculous and I’m so tired of this kind of crap, be americans or don’t be, then leave.
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