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Obama stupidly shows his racist side again

Sandhusker

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The Cambridge police commissioner says his department is "deeply pained" by President Barack Obama's statement that his officers "acted stupidly" when they arrested a renowned black scholar in his home.

In his first statement since the arrest, Commissioner Robert Haas on Thursday commended the arresting officer, Sgt. James Crowley. Haas said Crowley's actions were in no way motivated by racism.

Crowley, who is white, has been criticized for arresting Henry Louis Gates Jr. last week. Police say Gates flew into a verbal rage when officers asked him for identification while investigating a report of a break-in.

On Wednesday, Obama said officers "acted stupidly" in arresting Gates. On Thursday, he softened his stance and said cooler heads should have prevailed.

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 academy," Fleming told The Associated Press on Thursday.

The course, called "Racial Profiling," teaches about different cultures that officers could encounter in their community "and how you don't want to single people out because of their ethnic background or the culture they come from," Fleming said. The academy trains cadets for cities across the region.

Obama has said the Cambridge officers "acted stupidly" in arresting Gates last week when they responded to his house after a woman reported a suspected break-in.

Crowley, 42, has maintained he did nothing wrong and has refused to apologize, as Gates has demanded.

Crowley responded to Gates' home near Harvard University last week to investigate a report of a burglary and demanded Gates show him identification. Police say Gates at first refused, flew into a rage and accused the officer of racism.

Gates was charged with disorderly conduct. The charge was dropped Tuesday.

Gates' supporters maintain his arrest was a case of racial profiling. Officers were called to the home by a woman who said she saw "two black males with backpacks" trying to break in the front door. Gates has said he arrived home from an overseas trip and the door was jammed.

Obama was asked about the arrest of Gates, who is his friend, at the end of a nationally televised news conference on health care Wednesday night.

"I think it's fair to say, No. 1, any of us would be pretty angry," Obama said. "No. 2, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. And No. 3 — what I think we know separate and apart from this incident — is that there is a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately, and that's just a fact."

In radio interviews Thursday morning, Crowley maintained he followed procedure.

"I support the president of the United States 110 percent. I think he was way off base wading into a local issue without knowing all the facts as he himself stated before he made that comment," Crowley told WBZ-AM. "I guess a friend of mine would support my position, too."

Crowley did not immediately respond to messages left Thursday by the AP. The Cambridge police department scheduled a news conference for later Thursday.

Gates has said he was "outraged" by the arrest. He said the white officer walked into his home without his permission and only arrested him as the professor followed him to the porch, repeatedly demanding the sergeant's name and badge number because he was unhappy over his treatment.

"This isn't about me; this is about the vulnerability of black men in America," Gates said.

He said the incident made him realize how vulnerable poor people and minorities are "to capricious forces like a rogue policeman, and this man clearly was a rogue policeman."

The president said federal officials need to continue working with local law enforcement "to improve policing techniques so that we're eliminating potential bias."

Fellow officers, black and white, say Crowley is well-liked and respected on the force. Crowley was a campus police officer at Brandeis University in July 1993 when he administered CPR trying to save the life of former Boston Celtics player Reggie Lewis. Lewis, who was black, collapsed and died during an off-season workout.

Gov. Deval Patrick, who is black, said he was troubled and upset over the incident. Cambridge Mayor Denise Simmons, who also is black, has said she spoke with Gates and apologized on behalf of the city, and a statement from the city called the July 16 incident "regrettable and unfortunate."

The mayor refused Thursday to comment on the president's remarks.

On Thursday, the White House tried to calm a hubbub over Obama's comments by saying Obama was not calling the officer stupid. Spokesman Robert Gibbs said Obama felt that "at a certain point the situation got far out of hand" at Gates' home last week.

Police supporters charge that Gates, director of Harvard's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, was responsible for his own arrest by overreacting.

Black students and professors at Harvard have complained for years about racial profiling by Cambridge and campus police. Harvard commissioned an independent committee last year to examine the university's race relations after campus police confronted a young black man who was using tools to remove a bike lock. The man worked at Harvard and owned the bike.
 

Hay Feeder

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I dought every police officer knows who owns every house in that city.
We all know when words are exchanged the police are going to cuff one sooner or later.

Its best we try our hardest to ignore this race card stuff. Our president
basically has given every person of color to play the race card any time they want to..

To us in our state (Missouri) if everyone did not vote who ever they wanted none of our votes counted. Our state was a recall state and the election was well over by the time our states electoral votes were in.

There is nothing we can do... its over. Go on with life. Its just so sad that every person in our state vote did not matter. We could of all stayed home. Republicans and Democrates.
 

hypocritexposer

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Crowley responded to Gates' home near Harvard University last week to investigate a report of a burglary and demanded Gates show him identification. Police say Gates at first refused, flew into a rage and accused the officer of racism.

Why wouldn't he just show the documentation, instead of flying into a rage? if I needed to break into my home, (forgotten keys or whatever), I'd be thrilled to show my ID and to realize that the cops were doing thier jobs.
 

Sandhusker

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I don't really care about that guy, he needs to apologize, but what the heck is Obama doing getting into it half cocked and throwing gas on the racism fire? He's supposed to be the great unifier - he's supposed to have the answers for racism and he just proved again that he's a racist himself!
 

Tam

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The stupid thing is He said he didn't know the details but went right on ahead and blamed the cops. He is in so far over his racist head he is drowning. :roll:
 

hypocritexposer

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By Jason Szep Jason Szep – Thu Jul 23, 9:48 pm ET

BOSTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama plunged his presidency into a charged racial debate and set off a firestorm with police officers nationwide by siding with a prominent black scholar who accuses police of racism.

Saying he was unaware of "all the facts" but that police in Cambridge, Massachusetts, "acted stupidly" in their arrest of Harvard's Henry Louis Gates, Obama whipped up emotions on both sides of an issue that threatens to open old wounds.

"The President has alienated public safety officers across the country by his comments," said David Holway, president of the International Brotherhood of Police Officers, which represents 15,000 public security officials.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090724/ts_nm/us_obama_race_harvard

BOSTON – Many police officers across the country have a message for President Barack Obama: Get all the facts before criticizing one of our own. Obama's public criticism that Cambridge officers "acted stupidly" when they arrested black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. could make it harder for police to work with people of color, some officers said Thursday.
 

Tam

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hypocritexposer said:
By Jason Szep Jason Szep – Thu Jul 23, 9:48 pm ET

BOSTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama plunged his presidency into a charged racial debate and set off a firestorm with police officers nationwide by siding with a prominent black scholar who accuses police of racism.

Saying he was unaware of "all the facts" but that police in Cambridge, Massachusetts, "acted stupidly" in their arrest of Harvard's Henry Louis Gates, Obama whipped up emotions on both sides of an issue that threatens to open old wounds.

"The President has alienated public safety officers across the country by his comments," said David Holway, president of the International Brotherhood of Police Officers, which represents 15,000 public security officials.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090724/ts_nm/us_obama_race_harvard

BOSTON – Many police officers across the country have a message for President Barack Obama: Get all the facts before criticizing one of our own. Obama's public criticism that Cambridge officers "acted stupidly" when they arrested black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. could make it harder for police to work with people of color, some officers said Thursday.

He better get to work on that civil army that he talking about in Denver if he is planning to keep pi**ing off the Military by not proving he is eligible to be their Commander and Chief and now pi**ing off the Police officers with his racist crap. :wink:
 

hypocritexposer

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The military knows very well that he is not eligible, due to not being a "Natural Born Citizen"

Who would have been most interested in finding out about "Natural Born Citizenship", when they were vetting McCain and his "on-base" birth?

They were probably even swayed to vote for Obama, due to his upholding the Constitution in April 2008, when re-affirming the definition and intention of the "Natural Born Citizen" clause.

I wonder how they feel now, that he disregarded his own involvement in the resolution, when it was to his benefit?

and now he has upset another voting block, those that uphold the law.

Maybe he's still ticked off about all those parking tickets he got while he attended Harvard. He probably called them "stupid" also.

Starting to be a trend, if you are a friend of Obama's, you can't possibly be a lawbreaker.
 

Tam

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Want to bet if Gates was proven to be a cop abusing racist by the testimony of all his neighbors on the street witnessing the event that Obama would toss him under the bus just like he did Wright? :wink:
 

hypocritexposer

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backhoeboogie said:
Maybe all the law officers across the country are paying close attention to this.

I bet they are.

First DHS comes out with a report that is distributed to all law enforcement etc. asking them to watch out for "Right Wing Extremists", and then Obama more or less labels law enforcement "Right wing Extremists", by DHS's definition.
 

backhoeboogie

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hypocritexposer said:
backhoeboogie said:
Maybe all the law officers across the country are paying close attention to this.

I bet they are.

First DHS comes out with a report that is distributed to all law enforcement etc. asking them to watch out for "Right Wing Extremists", and then Obama more or less labels law enforcement "Right wing Extremists", by DHS's definition.

Lets look at the facts.

A call comes in telling the police that two black men are breaking in to a house.

In the mean time, the owner comes home and finds the door broken in to.

Police arrive and he's there. They want identification. He refuses to give it. He becomes radical. How do they know who he is?

Conclusion:

Attention black burglars/rapists: When you commit such a crime and get caught, tell the police you are a resident and don't offer identification. Obama supports you.
 

loomixguy

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backhoeboogie said:
hypocritexposer said:
backhoeboogie said:
Maybe all the law officers across the country are paying close attention to this.

I bet they are.

First DHS comes out with a report that is distributed to all law enforcement etc. asking them to watch out for "Right Wing Extremists", and then Obama more or less labels law enforcement "Right wing Extremists", by DHS's definition.

Lets look at the facts.

A call comes in telling the police that two black men are breaking in to a house.

In the mean time, the owner comes home and finds the door broken in to.

Police arrive and he's there. They want identification. He refuses to give it. He becomes radical. How do they know who he is?

Conclusion:

Attention black burglars/rapists: When you commit such a crime and get caught, tell the police you are a resident and don't offer identification. Obama supports you.

:agree:
 

Mike

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I've heard that Gates used references towards the arresting officer as in:
"Yo Momma" and others.

If that is indeed the case, he should have been treated like a nigga, instead of the black man that everyone thinks he is.

There is a big difference.

Looks as though MAYBE Buckwheat has jumped on a subject he knows only one side of. That stance shows inferences of his being a typical nigga also, as opposed to the black man that everyone thinks HE is too.

The truth will be out soon so that we'll all have the whole story.
 

MsSage

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Mike stick to facts...........
Good GAWD man why do you have to keep giving people a whip to beat you with.
I hope in my heart you really are not this way in person...you come across very narrow minded and ugly.
In alot of ways you remind me of shoer....At least he is starting to show the real side of himself and not the "tuff guy hates everyone" act.

Try it its not that hard ....... :D
 

Tam

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There is a press conference on Fox right now where the stage is packed with Police officers supporting the Cambridge Officer who has been cleared of all wrong doing They are upset over the comments made by Obama and feel he was wrong in making comments without looking at the facts and that if he had he may not have said what he did.

Will Obama apologize I doubt it. :roll:
 

Mike

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MsSage said:
Mike stick to facts...........
Good GAWD man why do you have to keep giving people a whip to beat you with.
I hope in my heart you really are not this way in person...you come across very narrow minded and ugly.
In alot of ways you remind me of shoer....At least he is starting to show the real side of himself and not the "tuff guy hates everyone" act.

Try it its not that hard ....... :D

What part of the "Yo Momma" statements by Gates' is not true? I heard this on ABC News this morning..................

Please do not worry about what kind of person I am. I am totally at peace with the way I am.

If you think it's "Ugly" to know the difference between a "Black Person" and a "Nigga"........... then you are beyond comprehending the real world.

Many of the niggas I know ARE white. And diametrically, many of the black people I know are responsible citizens who are good people.

What is your problem? :roll:
 
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