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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: longnshort who wrote (498184)7/25/2009 1:00:28 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (2) of 1583493
 

'Gates gets home, has a little trouble with the door, goes in after a couple of minutes there's a knock on the door and it's the police office. Gates happily invites him in. The office screams and demands to see his ID. Gates happily shows him his driver license, passport and Harvard ID, but that's not good enough for the racist cop and drags Gates outside and handcuffs him.'

I think most white people know what happened here. Clearly, this white officer behaved precisely as he should have. Gates was ready to engage from the outset, and overheated quickly. There really isn't any doubt about this; the black officer totally backs up the white officer's account of it. As does everyone else involved.

Obama's remarks were a racist reaction to the events.

It isn't just black people who experience the discomfort in dealing with cops. Within the last 3 years I had a cop threaten to "take me to jail" for giving him lip during a traffic stop -- obviously because we both had had bad days. I had to swallow hard and take it. It isn't just blacks.

But that's not what happened here. Gates was behaving in a way that led the cop to handle it just as he would any similar situation and just as he has trained other officers to do.
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