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VIDEO: Black Officer Supports Professor's Arrest
Real Clear Politics ^ | July 24, 2009 | Real Clear Politics

Posted on 07/24/2009 2:23:12 PM PDT by ianschwartz

AP: A black police officer who was at Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s home when the black Harvard scholar was arrested says he fully supports how his white fellow officer handled the situation. Sgt. Leon Lashley says Gates was probably tired and surprised when Sgt. James Crowley demanded identification from him as officers investigated a report of a burglary. Lashley says Gates' reaction to Crowley was "a little bit stranger than it should have been." Asked if Gates should have been arrested, Lashley said supported Crowley "100 percent."

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barackobama; blackofficer; crowley; gates; gatesgate; henrygates; lashley; leo; leonlashley; mrskippy; reverseracism; stupidgate; stupidly
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To: blueplum; nanetteclaret

Zero has described both Rev Wright and Gates as ‘good friends’. He has apologized for neither.

Gates taught at Duke University 1989-91, transferring to Harvard circa 91/92, about the time Zero was attending Harvard under the money of Kalid Al-Mansour, and about the time Zero was introducing his family to Rev. Wright’s racist church. Gates claims to be descended from an “Irish king’ (ring a bell?)

Gates wrote a recent article idolizing Zero’s ascendency to president, in which he whined, “this does not wipe the bloody slate clean”. He is a self-proclaimed expert on “every incident in the history of racism in America”.

In the interview linked below, Gates also claims he wants to be “a figure for prison reform”, and expressed plans to pen a documentary on being arrested “not as a famous academic but as an unrecognized black man,” (although he was very deliberate in presenting his Cambridge id instead of a driver’s license). One could assume, therefore, Gates is using this self-manufactured incident as a means to sell his hate-mongering to a producer, for a profit of course.

http://sweetness-light.com/archive/gates-the-justice-system-is-rotten


This guy Gates definitely has an agenda doesn’t he?


41 posted on 07/24/2009 6:30:05 PM PDT by boxlunch
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To: norton

Zero has also claimed descent from Irish nobility:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,269836,00.html

and

http://www.newsday.com/travel/irish-town-claims-dibs-on-barack-o-bama-1.1208639


42 posted on 07/24/2009 6:34:23 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: Riptides

I am noticing that what Obama hates in other people is all the things he is. HE acts stupidly. HE divides along racial lines. HE is “the rich”.


43 posted on 07/24/2009 6:52:54 PM PDT by omega4179 ((/) Happened)
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To: ianschwartz
VIDEO: Black Officer Supports Professor's Arrest

That's Racist!

What isn't anymore?

44 posted on 07/24/2009 7:00:17 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: blueplum
One could assume, therefore, Gates is using this self-manufactured incident as a means to sell his hate-mongering to a producer, for a profit of course

Why certainly. This too good a "crisis" to let go to waste.

45 posted on 07/24/2009 7:05:42 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: blueplum
One could assume, therefore, Gates is using this self-manufactured incident as a means to sell his hate-mongering to a producer, for a profit of course

Why certainly. This too good a "crisis" to let go to waste.

46 posted on 07/24/2009 7:05:47 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
...says he fully supports how his white fellow officer handled the situation. Sgt. Leon Lashley says Gates was probably tired and surprised when Sgt. James Crowley demanded identification from him as officers investigated a report of a burglary.

47 posted on 07/24/2009 7:13:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: MHGinTN

Let’s hope my friend.

By the way, you live in my favorite state!

I can’t get the wife to move because of family, Kentucky is as far south as she’ll go.

Have a good night!

Mike


48 posted on 07/24/2009 8:14:39 PM PDT by TSgt (I long for Norman Rockwell's America.)
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To: ianschwartz

My brother in law is a black police officer. I’ve been wondering how he feels about Obama dissing his fellow officer.

I haven’t asked him (and probably won’t), but I’ll bet that Obama just lost another supporter.


49 posted on 07/24/2009 8:20:01 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: ianschwartz

what do you expect, the black officer has to work for and see the sergeant daily for the next 20 years not for the professor.


50 posted on 07/24/2009 8:50:22 PM PDT by Coleus (Abortion, Euthanasia & FOCA - - don't Obama and the Democrats just kill ya!)
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To: ianschwartz

“tired?”

this was breathalyzer territory.


51 posted on 07/24/2009 9:39:42 PM PDT by dervish (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself)
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To: ianschwartz; All

Who gives a rats *ss about a local cops struggle with a racist black man.

This is SOOOOOOOO unimportant while socialized medicine is still on the table, and freedom’s head is on the chopping block.

This health care bill is a game-changer.

With the passing of this bill comes EVERYTHING the left needs to take your freedom.

Guns? Gone.

Taxes? Excrutiatingly high.

Paychecks? If you can get a job. Everyone’s standard of living will fall. No growth, or VERY little growth, for decades, which is just fine with the socialists.

Constitution? On its way out the door. Once they have such control over the American people the rest will be fairly easy to do with a little time (rot).

This is a seminal moment in American history. America, the land of the free, home of the brave, will not survive if they are ALLOWED to socialize YOUR medical care.

This is it, folks.


52 posted on 07/24/2009 10:13:47 PM PDT by Boucheau
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To: Boucheau

Agreed in full.
Thanks for posting.


53 posted on 07/24/2009 10:15:54 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: Nat Turner
The fact that many Black people still have integrity and have NOT consumed the kool aid from DC is a great sign of justice of our cause and our Constitution..

You must be talking about only the 3% blacks who did not vote for 0bozo as having integrity, because the 97% who DID vote for 0bozo are shameless race baiting hustlers, racist, bigoted & dumb ass idiots who were and still are salivating at the thought of the all the freebies they can extract (or extort) from whitey, now that they have their own race baiting hustler in the WH.

54 posted on 07/24/2009 10:52:24 PM PDT by rcrngroup
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To: boxlunch
Gates also claims he wants to be “a figure for prison reform”, and expressed plans to pen a documentary on being arrested “not as a famous academic but as an unrecognized black man,”

Good, can we help to pay this dumb ass's flight to N Korea, Cuba or Iran and let him investigate their prisons there as a prisoner?

55 posted on 07/24/2009 10:57:41 PM PDT by rcrngroup
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To: HollyB
maybe the driver was in the back room filming the situation

Maybe the driver was in the back flushing something down the toilet. Maybe the driver wasn't just a driver after all. Maybe Gates was having a homosexual encounter with his driver. Nothing can be put passed the disgusting lives of a Communist Party member..

56 posted on 07/24/2009 10:59:45 PM PDT by antiunion person (PALIN/JINDAL 2012)
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To: HollyB
maybe the driver was in the back room filming the situation

Maybe the driver was in the back flushing something down the toilet. Maybe the driver wasn't just a driver after all. Maybe Gates was having a homosexual encounter with his driver. Nothing can be put passed the disgusting lives of a Communist Party member..

57 posted on 07/24/2009 10:59:50 PM PDT by antiunion person (PALIN/JINDAL 2012)
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To: Boucheau
This is a seminal moment in American history. America, the land of the free, home of the brave, will not survive if they are ALLOWED to socialize YOUR medical care. This is it, folks.

Agree completely.

They'll have a total lock on Americans' freedom and overwhelming control of the economy.

58 posted on 07/24/2009 11:15:30 PM PDT by TheThinker
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To: ianschwartz
. Sgt. Leon Lashley

Seems that two senior officers were at the scene and they concurred with the arrest. Their call and not some outsider's is sensible and correct.

The rest is drama.
59 posted on 07/24/2009 11:17:18 PM PDT by BIGLOOK (Government needs a Keelhauling now and then.)
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To: rcrngroup
now that they have their own race baiting hustler in the WH.

Yup, he's a hater, a polished one, but still a hater.

This stuff is making me cynical.

The whites around me that still support Obama are hypocritical and digusting.

They are trash.

60 posted on 07/24/2009 11:20:24 PM PDT by TheThinker
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