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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: NAG1 who wrote (116564)7/26/2009 10:34:46 AM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 542598
 
If you state the case the way you did, it is absurd. If you read the police report and if it actually did take place that way, Gates acted absurdly and deserved what he got and was lucky the charges were dropped.

Neal, neither of us know what happened nor are we likely to ever know. The police report was written after the fact and subject to possible backward writing of the incident. I suspect it wouldn't be the first time such happened. And Gates also has an interest in a pursuing a narrative that has him acting calmly.

My own judgment call is not based on which is true. But rather, no matter how badly each behaved--Gates and Crowly--none of that rose, in any recounting, to the level of arrestable behavior. So, if you wish, accept the narrative that puts Gates in the worst light, he is still a middle aged black man in his own home, and all accounts say Crowley was satisfied that was the case, and walking with a cane. I don't see an arrestable bit in that narrative.
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