There used to be a gay weatherman in Little Rock, who was married and in the closet. He got caught at the local park one night “trolling.” His biggest mistake, outside of looking for love in all the wrong places, was telling the cop “Do you know who I am?”
The answer was probably, “Yeah, the guy I am going to arrest rather than give a warning to.”
Nonetheless, cops are entrusted with a lot of power, and they need to learn when to use the power, and when to end things.
parsy.
The arrest may have been borderline, but when Gates invoked the officer’s mother in his tirade he was lucky to get away with only getting cuffed. Probably his age prevented anything beyond that. If I had done that, I’d expect to be picking my teeth up off of the floor of my front porch.
Treat a police officer with respect — he might be having a bad day.
Nobody is talking about Gates' companion. He was a witness and could corroborate Gates' story. Where did he disappear to? NOBODY is mentioning him. Why?