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Cop who arrested black scholar is profiling expert
Associated Press ^ | July 23, 2009

Posted on 07/23/2009 12:21:37 PM PDT by presidio9

The white police sergeant criticized by President Barack Obama for arresting black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his Massachusetts home is a police academy expert on racial profiling.

Cambridge Sgt. James Crowley has taught a class on racial profiling for five years at the Lowell Police Academy after being hand-picked for the job by former police Commissioner Ronny Watson, who is black, said Academy Director Thomas Fleming.

"I have nothing but the highest respect for him as a police officer. He is very professional and he is a good role model for the young recruits in the police academy," Fleming told The Associated Press on Thursday.

The course, called "Racial Profiling," teaches about different cultures that officers could encounter in their community "and how you don't want to single people out because of their ethnic background or the culture they come from," Fleming said.

Obama has said the Cambridge officers "acted stupidly" in arresting Gates last week when they responded to his house after a woman reported a suspected break-in.

Crowley, 42, has maintained he did nothing wrong and has refused to apologize, as Gates has demanded.

Crowley responded to Gates' home near Harvard University last week to investigate a report of a burglary and demanded Gates show him identification. Police say Gates at first refused, flew into a rage and accused the officer of racism.

Gates was charged with disorderly conduct. The charge was dropped Tuesday.

Gates' supporters

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 24hrpalinization; bho44; crowley; democrats; gates; gatesgate; henrygates; mrskippy; obama; profiling; sgtjamescrowley; stupidgate
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To: Frantzie

If this is a “smear,” it is a lousy one. It just makes the police officers judgement and integrity seem even less questionable. Gates and Obama look like race baiters.


61 posted on 07/23/2009 1:35:10 PM PDT by KansasGirl
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To: envisio
In this case, they have to say a black man was wrong and a white man was right. And they will never ever ever do that. Under no circumstances. EVER.

Sad, but true. Gates is obviously an a-hole with a chip on his shoulder, but no one in the MSM will ever say it. There is only one reason...

62 posted on 07/23/2009 1:35:42 PM PDT by A.Hun (Common sense is no longer common.)
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To: presidio9

"...Now, I don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that, but I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the Cambridge Police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home; and number three, what I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there is a long history in this country of African Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately.  That's just a fact. "

RACIST!

63 posted on 07/23/2009 1:36:19 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Red Steel
Hannity read the police report. At the end of the report, Gates stated that the front door could not be locked because of a previous break-in to a police officer who wanted to secure it before they left to book Gates.

Whoa, wait a minute, didn't Gates say he was away on vacation overseas? Why on earth would he take off on vacation and leave his home unsecured?

64 posted on 07/23/2009 1:38:14 PM PDT by libertarian27 (Ingsoc: Life, Liberty and the Department of Happiness)
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To: manc
this cop also stated he supports bozo 110% but does not agree with his comment.

That's the problem with white liberals, they lack dignity.

And in the course leaving themselves wide open to being dehumanized through discriminatory laws and inaction in face of racial hatred in order to assauge their guilt, they leave the rest of the white population open to racial abuse.

65 posted on 07/23/2009 1:38:45 PM PDT by TheThinker
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To: A.Hun

“””There is only one reason...”””

a-sceert


66 posted on 07/23/2009 1:39:51 PM PDT by envisio (95% of blacks voted for Hussein, but the whites are told to get past skin color.)
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To: presidio9

Gates thereby racially profiled the police officer, and made a simple request for ID into a ridiculous racial debacle.


67 posted on 07/23/2009 1:41:18 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (www.publishedauthors.net/benmaxwell/index.html. Donate to members.tripod.com/tva_israel/HOME.HTM)
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To: KansasGirl

My mistake. Looks like Drudge is showing lost of stories where people are backing the cop.


68 posted on 07/23/2009 1:41:54 PM PDT by Frantzie (Remember when Bush was President and Americans had jobs (and ammo)?)
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To: jennyjenny

>>>> Another article I read said Gates was renting the house from Harvard. <<<<

I’ve mentioned this in a couple threads because the Cambridge police report mentions (1) an offer to call Harvard maintenance about the broken door and (2) a radio call to summon Harvard security.

There would be no reason to do those things if it wasn’t a Harvard property.

I only mention it because calling it “Gates’ home” rather than “Gates’ apartment” puts a slightly different spin on things.


69 posted on 07/23/2009 1:42:07 PM PDT by angkor
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To: presidio9

This is RICH!


70 posted on 07/23/2009 1:42:07 PM PDT by TSgt (I long for Norman Rockwell's America.)
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To: TheClintons-STILLAnti-American

“leftist racist ideologues”

Yep, Obama proves once again that he is one. Also the recent appointment of Sotomayor is more proof.


71 posted on 07/23/2009 1:43:11 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: presidio9

I say again, the only Racists there are, are the same people slinging the accusations.


72 posted on 07/23/2009 1:44:48 PM PDT by Danae (I AM JIM THOMPSON - Conservative does not equal Republican. Conservative does not compromise.)
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To: americanophile
Right, I came home early from a business trip (it was late in the evening) after I previously had alerted the local Sheriff's Dept. of my planned dates of absence. I awoke the next morning to deputies surrounding my house to investigate someone moving around inside. When I established my identity, the deputies departed...with my thanks for doing their job and a pledge that, in the future, I would alert the station in advance if I am planning to return early.

This racist clown in MA is just that...a racist clown...and another of O'Dumbo's Marxist cronies to surface.

73 posted on 07/23/2009 1:46:55 PM PDT by twister881
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To: Parley Baer
President Obama Acted Stupidly Last Night!

74 posted on 07/23/2009 1:48:52 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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To: TheClintons-STILLAnti-American

Let’s hope Sgt. Crowley changes his views on racial profiling. He has good cause. Ostammer stuck up for Gates because he was black, no other reason, just like Colin Powell voted for ostammer because he’s black.

The only racist activity I see going on on is perpetrated by blacks.


75 posted on 07/23/2009 1:48:52 PM PDT by bustinchops
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To: presidio9

Harvard or Community College? Harvard or Community College?

Hillsdale.

http://www.hillsdale.edu/about/history/mission.asp


76 posted on 07/23/2009 1:48:56 PM PDT by Eddie01 (I fixed my well... which is nice.)
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To: Faith

Yes! I want my local police force making inquiries into suspicious activity. My white friend is a lawyer and they asked him why he was simply on his own property. He simply and peacefully responded that he was the owner and that was the end of that.

Professor Gates possesses that usual “chip on the shoulder” attitude. The police were simply doing their job. He could have simply said “he owns the place- here is my ID.”


77 posted on 07/23/2009 1:52:43 PM PDT by real_patriotic_american
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To: brwnsuga

I don’t think this is going to turn out well for the police officer.

Prof. Gates has so many connections and power that a simple working class man does not have. Top it all off with Cambridge being the most Ultra leftist city in America...

Has got to be one of the most thankless jobs in America - Police Officer.


78 posted on 07/23/2009 1:54:10 PM PDT by warsaw44
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To: ladyjane

bump - and people thought Bush was stupid.

Obama is a world class clown.


79 posted on 07/23/2009 1:55:08 PM PDT by Loud Mime (The Germans weren't Nazis per se - their SOCIALISTS were. Socialists are dangerous people...)
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To: Frantzie

“The AP smears have started.”

Yep. We’ll soon hear about some long lost schoolmate who remembers the officer using the Nword in the 5th grade.


80 posted on 07/23/2009 1:57:44 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Obama--POtuS.)
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