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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (498455)	7/27/2009 11:16:19 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1570320

>> So did the professor, who acted like an arrogant jerk. Ten, with this remark you seem to be accepting that the officer overstepped HIS bounds. This is simply not the case. The officer apparently acted by the book, under well established principles of police work. Anyone who ever watched an episode of Cops knows this. When cops vary from procedure is when they get into trouble; they put themselves in danger as well as the public. In this case it is evident that procedure was followed with exacting precision. The racism here was on the part of Gates, and the racial profiling was on the part of Obama. To cave in to the black racists on this issue just feeds the racial divisions which Obama's election was supposedly going to have "healed".

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (498455)	7/27/2009 2:21:56 PM
From: SilentZ	3 Recommendations Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1570320

>So did the professor, who acted like an arrogant jerk. Since when is acting like an arrogant jerk in your own home an arrestable crime? -Z

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (498455)	7/27/2009 2:34:34 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570320

>> So did the professor, who acted like an arrogant jerk. This statement, of course, brought about the anticipated remark from Z (and probably others) that it isn't a crime to be an arrogant jerk. Of course, this is also not why the man was arrested. He was arrested because the officer could not establish whether he posed a threat to anyone due to his behavior. When he was 18, my son decided to throw a bash for about 250 of his closest friends in our front yard while we were out of town. The neighbors didn't like that and called the cops, who promptly arrested my son for "public intoxication". The problem was that he was not intoxicated, and there was no evidence that he was. The arresting officer failed to run a breathalyzer exam. After the fact, I talked to the officer about it. He said, "You know, we had a problem. We had to clear these kids out of there before it became a problem, and the best way to do that was to bring your kid in. We had no interest in causing him trouble; we just needed to end it. So call the prosecutor, and you'll be fine." I did, and the prosecutor immediately dropped the charges, all was well -- and I was grateful to both the officer and the prosecutor as they did the right thing. People, even black ones, have to understand that police officers have an awfully difficult job to do and instead of creating problems they need to appreciate what they do. This guy doesn't. It is totally lost on his that the officer was there protecting HIS interests. This is arrogance. As previously pointed out, anyone who has watched an episode of Cops has seen this drill play out in real life. Some belligerent asshole gets himself locked up because the cops cannot count on him to behave rationally. This is quite obviously what happened here. The cop wasn't at fault. The black man was behaving irrationally, and precisely the same thing would have happened had he been white. If anything, the question ought to be whether the charges were dropped due to affirmative action.