Is it possible that Gates purposely went off on Crowley in order to create buzz so that his new TV documentary would get more attention? Just a thought…BOSTON (July 26) — Black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. says he’s ready to move on from his arrest by a white police officer, hoping to use the encounter to improve fairness in the criminal justice system and saying “in the end, this is not about me at all.”After a phone call from President Barack Obama urging calm in the aftermath of his arrest last week, Gates said he would accept Obama’s invitation to the White House for a beer with him and Cambridge police Sgt. …Read more […..]

Guess all it takes is a visit to the White House and a beer to calm things down? Amazing the great things that can be accomplished with beer!! We will see how this plays out but it is funny to watch “The One” attempting damage control. Wonder what the professor will have to say….WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama concedes his words — that a white police officer “acted stupidly” when he arrested a black university scholar in his own home — were ill-chosen. But, while he invited both men to visit him at the White House, Obama stopped short of publicly apologizing for his remark. The president …Read more […..]

Had to add this since he stupidly charactarized the police actions as stupudly without knowing all the facts…One reason Barack Obama may think the Cambridge Police Department is “stupid” is that he has a grudge against the law enforcement agency. Obama, who attended Harvard Law School from 1988 to 1991, lived in Cambridge, and apparently didn’t like the fact he was frequently hit with parking tickets. In all Obama received 17 tickets for parking violations — and never paid 15 of them until he was exposed by a local Massachusetts newspaper as a scofflaw. According to a 2007 Associated Press story, Obama was a parking …Read more […..]

Read the police reports and make your own conclusion, I know that I have…. Click HERE

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — 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 understanding racial profiling. Cambridge Sgt. James Crowley has taught a class about 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 …Read more […..]