Entering your own house with a key while Black

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They need more Black Cops to patrol Black neighborhoods.

Yeah!!!  Like Denzel in "Training Day".

[Dementia_Madness]

They need more Black Cops to patrol Black neighborhoods.

No they don't that attitude just exacerbates the problem, The whole "REAL" Civil rights movement was all about "equality" and integration. People need to realize that just because an officer is one race does not mean he cannot and will not treat another race the same, this is Just like Sotamyers crap, The next thing you know we will have to have all black juries and judges for cases involving blacks, this proves that we are moving backwards in race relations in America and it's mostly because of the whole attitude of civil rights these days.

Oh and Link that was a great movie, DW makes such a great villain.


http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0723092gates1.html


My such scholarly behavior.

[LTC]

What I assumed is a cop arresting a man in his own house after proving that it is his own house is an idiot.  There is no reason for the cop to prove who has the bigger d*&k by arresting Gates for being a jerk, and that is essentially what happened.  Took a guy off his own front porch to jail for being a jerk - not a threat, not a public nuisance since he was in his own home, just a jerk who was smarting off to the big bad police man who demands proper respect.  

Being a jerk is not against the law, otherwise all of us here would be arrested.  We have a Constitution which says we have freedom of speech.  If we cannot be a jerk in our own home, then that First Amendment is meaningless.  I realize some do not like many of the Bill of Rights, but they are Law.  The officer, regardless of what Dr Gates said to him, violated the First Amendment rights of the homeowner. There is no..none...nada...indication that the officer was threatened other than verbally.....the officer, as the President said, 'acted stupidly!"

Whether the arrest was motivated because Gates was black or not is debateable.  If I was a betting man, I wwould bet that the color of the skin influenced the officer, even if it was not the over-riding factor.  What is klnown is that this officer abused his police powers. His ego got in the way of common sense!

[plumbervol]

We broke up the Italian Mafia and the Irish Mafia by hiring Italian and Irish cops. How many white boyz can go under cover and infiliterate the Crips and the Bloods?


White cops patrolling Black neighborhoods does nothing but fester a lack of respect for the Law and authority in those neighborhoods....

Irish Catholic cops thwarted the IRA more in Belfast than any anti terrorist unit that was ever assembled. Do you have any idea what the hell the Royal Irish Constabulary Reserve Force (Black and Tans) or the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) both were disasters.

[roustabout]

His ego got in the way of common sense!

Sounds like Gates was the ego problem here.
This is a case of race baiting. If the officer's report is true, then Gates has a chip and was looking to stir up unrest.

Here is a question. If the responding officer was black would Gates have reacted this way to the same line of questioning.  

Should the officer have arrested Gates? In my opinion, no. But that is easy to say from the outside looking in. But there is little question that Gates handled himself like a first class jerk and abused case for the REAL problems that do exist with profiling.

[Dementia_Madness]

Here is a question. If the responding officer was black would Gates have reacted this way to the same line of questioning.

Roust, Very good question.

PV good points, but we are not talking FBI here we are talking your everyday street cops, and how they are treated and looked at by the public. This man, Gates' actions FEED the fire of hatred and mistrust. We need to get to the point where a cop of any color can walk down any neighborhood of any color. I know that there are racists cops who make things worse, but ther are racist citizens who do the exact same thing. We need to do what MLK said... see a cop and a citizen, and not a white cop and a black citizen, and then form our opinions, and look at the situation from that perspective.

Here's a question to be honest i do not have a clue about, are the crips and bloods all black?

[The One Man Gang]

yes, Mondo, he would have.  Gates would see the black cop as haveing "sold out" to "The Man" and nothing better than a "house ni**er in the plantation south.  The fact that he, Gates, has done much to preserve the plantation mentality of the Left would never enter his mind.  Blacks in the world of the Left have two functions 1) to be "clean and articulate" front men or 2) a mindless mass of sheep who can be relied upon to produce votes in cities. It's one of the saddest aspects of modern politics, but par for the course for the Democratic Party which was once the home of the Klan and probably still is, except now the Klukkers are black professors of "urban studies" at Harvard and occupy the Oval office. The mind-set is EXACTLY the same.

For once, I'm on the union's side.

I hope they sue Gates' a** off for defamation and libel.

Obama's too.

Arrogant pr*cks.

[Dementia_Madness]

Yeah, I have seen many times where people have been called "Uncle Toms." Even today a black man who has reached affluence due to his own achievements, not relying on affirmative action, is often time the subject of scorn and ridicule among those who wish to push the agenda. Even Obama believes he is where he is because he got "breaks" it wasn't necessarily HIS achievement, and his perspective is black people can only be successful if they are lucky, rather than honest, hard working, and inspired to achieve based on their own merit and abilities.

[LTC]

The guy gets arrested in his OWN HOUSE for being pissed off and HE IS AT FAULT?  You guys are so full of shitl!

[NCVol]

Even Obama believes he is where he is because he got "breaks" it wasn't necessarily HIS achievement, and his perspective is black people can only be successful if they are lucky, rather than honest, hard working, and inspired to achieve based on their own merit and abilities.

I realize that you're not a big follower of Obama, but that's just BS, the OPPOSITE of his message to blacks, repeated many times, most recently this month.  Here's a quote that is fairly consistent with other speeches on the subject

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/16/obama-naacp-speahc-live-v_n_236760.html

"We've got to say to our children, Yes, if you're African American, the odds of growing up amid crime and gangs are higher. Yes, if you live in a poor neighborhood, you will face challenges that someone in a wealthy suburb does not have to face. That's not a reason to get bad grades, that's not a reason to cut class, that's not a reason to give up on your education and drop out of school," he said. "No one has written your destiny for you. Your destiny is in your hands - and don't you forget that."

"No excuses. No excuses," Obama added, verging off his prepared remarks. "You get that education. All those hardships will just make you stronger, better able to compete. Yes, we can."

[NCVol]

The guy gets arrested in his OWN HOUSE for being pissed off and HE IS AT FAULT?  You guys are so full of shitl!

Yes they are! 

At least we know what it takes to get a republican on the side of the union.  The belief that arresting a black man and holding him for hours is NOT ENOUGH punishment for getting angry about being interrogated about his right to be in his own home.   

At least that's a start. 

And I agree about Obama, I mean it is very controversial to say that arresting a guy for saying words in his own house, then holding him for four hours to process the charge, only to drop the charges the next day is "stupid."  I call it effective policing, and a textbook example of how to handle an angry citizen, what we clearly need MORE of in America.

I mean, what would the country turn into if the police didn't "intelligently" repeatedly haul off old men from their front porch because officers have to prove that their d**ks are longer than the other guys and won't take any trash talking shiate off some pompous elitist LIBERAL on his front porch?   

[Dementia_Madness]

The belief that arresting a black man and holding him for hours is NOT ENOUGH punishment for getting angry about being interrogated about his right to be in his own home.

Question how many Americans do you think, are arrested in their own homes every day? People don't get arrested at home? You guys are so weak, you claim to be arguing about he was arrested for being a jerk...or you claim to be mad because he was arrested at home....and in the end you keep PROVING what its really about, and trying to make the people who look at it from a NON-RACIAL view point out to be the racist....."The belief that arresting a black man and holding him for hours is NOT ENOUGH punishment"

The fact of the matter is Gate's acted not just like a JERK but like a criminal.... and then sought to justify himself for his inexcusable actions by pointing the finger of blame at other people...people who's whole initial intentions were to protect his property and possible his life. he didn't get angry about being interrogated..he got angry because he is black and a police officer was asking him questions.



Let us not forget there were witnesses as well, the neighbor agrees with the cops details of the incident, and other cops were there as well, but they are all probably covering up for this cop because they are cops, and the neighbor is white so you know who's side she is going to be on.

Gates and Obama should be kissing this guys butt...and all police officers rears for that matter, they are an insult to our public servants, and some of the bravest citizens we have in our nations who put their lives on the line every day, and have to make life and death choices, even when being called racist.

Remember Cynthia McKinney and the Capitol Hill Police Officer?  

Assaulting a police officer is a felony in most places...and there is such a thing as verbal assault. Gate's is actually lucky the charges were dropped.

Oh and NC your continual use of VULGAR comparisons shows how you immature attitude towards this disqualifies your opinion, It's not about chest thumping..it's about a man who broke the law, and suffered the consequences, yes the Officer could have been merciful, but mercy is usually and should be only given to those who that mercy will be appreciated and some positive influence too, not an indignant belligerent individual who has no concept of self guilt or responsibility.