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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: MHGinTN

Right on. There are too many blacks that realise what is going on to be taken in by all this BS. People are waking up.

“Divide and Conquer” isn’t going to work if people wake up and become informed.


61 posted on 07/24/2009 11:28:24 PM PDT by unkus
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To: ianschwartz

Oh, Gates was sleepy. That is why he acted like a flaming racist. I notice this cop really did not stand by Crowley. Skin is all that matters in all ways.


62 posted on 07/24/2009 11:37:16 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: khnyny

0bama would be fool if he prolongs this issue. He had been very careful not to be associated with race-bait crowd during the election, and this would be exactly the opposite.


63 posted on 07/24/2009 11:54:17 PM PDT by paudio (Road to hell is paved by unintended conseqences of good intentions)
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To: jessduntno

Gates was trying to provoke a reaction from Crowley so he’d have a BS basis for a lawsuit, press conference, etc.. Such people always want attention, especially when the attention is about their blackness.


64 posted on 07/25/2009 6:42:46 AM PDT by bustinchops
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To: MHGinTN

I hate to burst your bubble, but 97% of blacks still support ostammer. He may lose a couple percent, but the vast majority of blacks will stand by him because he is black. They don’t care what he does nor how bad he makes things for them economically. It’s about race, first, last and always. There is only a very small handful of black conservatives in this country.


65 posted on 07/25/2009 6:47:45 AM PDT by bustinchops
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To: Boucheau

Remember his words to Joe the Plumber:

“We’re going to redistribute the wealth.”

He meant it.


66 posted on 07/25/2009 7:01:14 AM PDT by BagCamAddict ("Wolverines!!")
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To: khnyny

A man who yells at a police officer investigating a possible break-in, “I’ll talk at yo’ momma outside” is going to grace us all with his great wisdom and a “teaching moment?” Does the arrogance of these 5th-raters know no bounds?

Hey Gates, we’ll have a teaching moment with yo’ momma, you halfwitted fool!


67 posted on 07/25/2009 7:34:03 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: ianschwartz

I once showed up at my house during a thunderstorm. The security alarm was going off (triggered by lightning) and the cops were there. The officer asked me to disarm the alarm and then produce some id. I politely complied and it never occured to me that I could have thrown tantrum, subjected myself to arrest and then file a lawsuit for a nice cash settlement!


68 posted on 07/25/2009 7:57:21 AM PDT by rockthecasbah (He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat.)
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To: khnyny
CNN (Lou Dobbs show) just exclusively reported that Gates has accepted the President's invitation to the Whitehouse. Gates issued a statement and I'm paraphrasing here, but he uses Obama’s words that he hopes it can be “a teaching moment” on race relations.

I'm hoping - PRAYING, in fact - for the following scenario:

1. That this meeting with Gates takes place, with full-blown 24/7 media coverage.
2. That Crowley sticks to his guns, doesn't apologize, and doesn't participate in this phony "Can't we all just get along?" ploy designed to prop up O's image.
3. That all the audio tapes, and any still still photos of the screaming looney are released.
4. Finally, that clueless Rat politicians continue to back BO on this issue.

That should take care of 2010. Now on to 2012.

69 posted on 07/25/2009 8:06:14 AM PDT by truthkeeper ("Why oh why didn't I take the blue pill?")
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To: paudio
0bama would be fool if he prolongs this issue.

Never was the old adage, "Give a person enough rope an they'll hang themself" more true.

70 posted on 07/25/2009 8:07:36 AM PDT by truthkeeper ("Why oh why didn't I take the blue pill?")
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To: GVnana

He actually thinks people should know who he is. Why would they necessarily?

I walked right by my favorite TV actress at Wrigley a few weeks ago. She and her costar were there to sing the 7th inning stretch. She looked different was dressed differently than her character and her hair was different.

But I did get to meet them later through my friend who works there. And yes they are just as gorgeous in person as they are on tv.


71 posted on 07/25/2009 8:12:10 AM PDT by rexgrossmansonlyfan (Obama, Blagojevich, Stroger and Daley when Daley is the least corrupt of a group you have issues!)
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To: bustinchops
I believe the paradigm is shifting, dramatically. To believe that black people will continue to vote blindly is to ignore the millions of black fellow Americans who have become educated, have families for whose wellbeing they work too hard to have the democrat party pull the rug out from under with trillion dollar per year welfare programs like government controlled healthcare and governemnt tax welfare like cap and tax. We shall see what occurs in 2010.

If there is not a major shift in Congressional control, then it will be the end of the old Republic and the soros commies/nazis will have won in the end and enslaved the entire nation in a soulless oligarchy under democrat control which will never relinquish power and will lead ultimately to murder and misery as our terrorists Islamic enemies find less resistance to their plots and a Constitutional Republic aborted gradually reveals the rule of law has mutated into the rule of demcorat oligarchic whim. We shall see ...

72 posted on 07/25/2009 8:59:56 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: ianschwartz

I saw in the paper where the professor has been arrested five times. Also here is an email I got pertaining to Obama. From Barry’s own words he is a racist.

“From Dreams of My Father:’I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.’

From Dreams of My Father :’I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race.’

From Dreams of My Father:’There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.’

From Dreams of My Father:’It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.’

From Dreams of My Father:’I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa, that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself: the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.’

And FINALLY,

From Audacity of Hope:’I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.’


73 posted on 07/25/2009 9:03:10 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: truthkeeper
3. That all the audio tapes, and any still still photos of the screaming looney are released.

LOL. Or "leaked" - oopsy!
74 posted on 07/25/2009 9:51:58 AM PDT by khnyny ("The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.")
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To: MHGinTN

I agree with your second paragraph. As to your first paragraph, all I can say to you is “remember OJ.” If race wasn’t the most important factor in their last vote, they wouldn’t have voted for ostammer in such huge numbers - 97% - middle class or not. They just don’t see what he’s about. They are blinded by race, educated or not. They have been indoctrinated from the cradle.


75 posted on 07/25/2009 10:04:43 AM PDT by bustinchops
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To: CedarDave
I somehow set off the office silent alarm when I unlocked the door.

Following the funeral of my grandmother a bunch of years ago, I was the first one back to my sister's house afterwards. Altho she had given me instructions on how to disable the house alarm, I still couldn't figure it out. The alarm system is also broadcast to the local police who were there faster than you can imagine.

I met them at the door, let them into the house, answered every question, gave my ID, all the while trying to turn off the alarm which eventually shut itself off.

Police remained on scene till the family arrived and everyone, cops included, had a good laugh at my expense.........

76 posted on 07/25/2009 10:05:03 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Who's your Long Legged MacDaddy?)
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To: Coleus
what do you expect, the black officer has to work for and see the sergeant daily

Sgt. Leon Lashley is of equal rank.

RIF

77 posted on 07/25/2009 10:09:34 AM PDT by ASA Vet
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To: ianschwartz
I like what Jesse Lee Peterson said about the encounter:

"Mr. President, words have consequences. Do the right thing as a man and as president and apologize. Apologize to Sgt. James Crowley and the Cambridge Police Department. Apologize to white Americans; then apologize to black Americans for encouraging and in many cases validating their hatred of whites and police officers."

78 posted on 07/25/2009 10:29:33 AM PDT by TheThinker
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To: bustinchops
Dude/dudette, it is that fact that this lying bastard threatens the cradle that could be the key to wake up conservative black people.

If ten percent of black votes now going to democraps were to not go to democrats and go to Republicans instead, that is a twenty percent shift of black democrat votes. And that isn't even taking into consideration that not all ACORN workers are as criminally intent as the ones Barry et al rely upon. What happens if whistles start getting blown?

79 posted on 07/25/2009 10:46:02 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: rexgrossmansonlyfan
He actually thinks people should know who he is. Why would they necessarily?

He's been on Oprah, doncha know. And besides, he lives in CAMBRIDGE. (Not your ordinary Joe.)

80 posted on 07/25/2009 10:52:06 AM PDT by GVnana (Sarah for America)
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