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To: i-node who wrote (498466)	7/27/2009 11:20:22 AM
From: bentway	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570746

Obama is a black man, so is Gates, and as a black man, has had a black man's experience with the police. Which YOU'VE never experienced.

To: i-node who wrote (498466)	7/27/2009 11:24:12 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570746

>> 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. How can you possibly know? You weren't there. Even the other cops who were there only heard pieces of the conversation going on in the house between Crowley and Gates. Frankly, I think both men over reacted and the situation escalated. Your need to always fall on the side of law and order is tiresome. Try thinking outside the box for a change.

To: i-node who wrote (498466)	7/27/2009 12:31:38 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570746

Inode, > Ten, with this remark you seem to be accepting that the officer overstepped HIS bounds. This is simply not the case. To be honest, I don't know how else the police officer could have handled the situation. Certainly it's understandable if he's responding to a call about a break-in and the guy he finds in the home refuses to cooperate. But the professor was in his own home, after all. And he's a guy who has spent his entire life researching and documenting racism. This is one of those situations where I think a cop's instinct really comes into play here. The professor was being uncooperative, but I doubt he posed much of a threat, and maybe the cop should have taken that into account. I don't know. Tenchusatsu