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Cambridge police: Race not mentioned in 911 call
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Posted on 07/27/2009 5:44:52 AM PDT by Dubya

BOSTON – The 911 caller who reported a possible break-in at the home of black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. did not mention race in the call, according to a statement issued by her attorney and backed up by Cambridge Police Commissioner Robert Haas.

Lucia Whalen placed the 911 call July 16, saying she saw two men on Gates' front porch who appeared to be trying to force open the front door. The call led to the arrest of Gates by Cambridge police on a disorderly conduct charge, and the resulting national firestorm.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: emergency911; henrygates; mrskippy
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To: Dubya

Gates’ web of lies continues to unravel. Next up: the “exaggerations” on the police record get proven by recordings.


21 posted on 07/27/2009 6:56:24 AM PDT by FreepShop1
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To: Dubya

Wendy Murphy is not credible, IMHO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vNggdW3lZ8

Wendy Murphy supporting DA Nifong

http://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/2006/12/wendy-murphy-file.html

The Wendy Murphy File

To suggest [the indicted players] were well behaved: Hitler never beat his wife either. So what?
—“The Situation,” 5 June 2006

I bet one or more of the players was, you know, molested or something as a child.
—“CNN Live,” 3 May 2006

I never, ever met a false rape claim, by the way. My own statistics speak to the truth.
—“The Situation,” 5 June 2006


22 posted on 07/27/2009 7:02:11 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Dubya

Looks like the ONLY confirmed racist this year ( that’s not a troll) is the woman who wanted the black kids out of the swimming pool. We’ve come a looooooong way from Bull Conner. Too bad the nations black leadership is still living in 1964...


23 posted on 07/27/2009 7:04:33 AM PDT by GOPJ ( Obama's a...leftist,too cozy with terrorist leaders and way beyond naivete..-BenStein)
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To: Dubya

Well imagine the MSM claiming all along that the caller had specifically identified them as BLACK!! Of course, I’m sure this has just been a coincidence on the part of our non-biased, straight-arrow media!


24 posted on 07/27/2009 7:09:55 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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To: olrtex
The fact that the police determined that Gates was the owner did not end the need for investigation. The police absolutely should always determine that there is not another person involved who may intend to do harm to the owner. That is why Crowley needed to get Gates out of the house.

That's exactly right. I just moved to a new house last year. In the process of plugging in a brand new land line phone with which I was unfamiliar, I somehow managed to accidentally press that little red emergency button thingy. The sheriff's office immediately called me to ask me what my emergency was, I explained my mistake to the dispatcher, but not even three minutes later a sheriff's deputy careened up to my front door. He asked me to step out onto the porch & away from the door to speak with him. It should be obvious to anybody with a room-temperature IQ he was doing so for both my protection as well as his own.

As I explained my clumsy techno-idiocy with the new phone apparatus to him he was checking my eye movements and surveying all around inside to ensure I was not merely saying I was okay under duress with a gun pointed at my head (or his) from somewhere around a dark corner of the interior of my home.

I am white. Was that black deputy racist for properly asking me to comply with safe procedure just as Crowley did with Gates in Cambridge? Of course not. He was simply a competent professional following the smart safety procedures which he was correctly trained to observe.

And our supposedly 'postracial' President is an ignorant bigoted yahoo for even thinking let alone publicly implying that cops who follow proper protocols to ensure their own safety & the public's are 'stupid'.

But I am glad this happened. Every time this President pulls ridiculously dumb stunts like this & further exposes his shockingly questionable judgement, all my idiotic relatives who voted for this foolish, arrogant boob become more & more suspicious about the very odd fact that he has heretofore refused to release even his college transcripts, and they've finally begun to question in earnest his competency to craft dogcatching legislation let alone seize unilateral control of the private economy & nationalize our health care.

25 posted on 07/27/2009 8:05:09 AM PDT by leilani (Tagline? What tagline?)
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To: Dubya

BTTT


26 posted on 07/27/2009 8:48:07 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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"Contrary to published reports that a 'white woman' called 911 and reported seeing 'two black men' trying to gain entry into Mr. Gates home, the woman, who has olive colored skin and is of Portuguese descent, told the 911 operator that she observed 'two men' at the home," Murphy's statement read.

Portuguese folks aren't white? Cool! Maybe I can now have my movement to have Italian-Americans classified as "Latino" taken more seriously around here...

"Call 911, Shorty Gates has a fire burnin' down in Cambridge..."

27 posted on 07/27/2009 8:59:43 AM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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