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To: tejek who wrote (498477)	7/27/2009 11:28:10 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1570760

I'm curious how the cop got into Gate's house. Did he just go in, or did Gates let him in? Without a warrant, the cop had no right to BE in Gate's house. A man's home is his castle, even if he's a black man.

To: tejek who wrote (498477)	7/27/2009 11:56:52 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570760

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. A picture has clearly been emitted from the altercation, and that picture is one of a hothead black racist who jumped to conclusions, and a white officer who followed procedure to the letter. A black cop and an Hispanic who were present on the seen have totally backed up the white cop's version of events. The white copy was hand-picked because of his track record to train other officers in the area of racial profiling. The "victim", OTOH, has been hand-picked because of his "knowledge" (you could say "memory", which would be accompanied by anger, humiliation, etc.) of every racist event in history. Even if there were no known facts in the case one could have a pretty good idea how things went down. But there ARE facts. We know what happened. The officer behaved precisely as officers are required to. The hothead black guy blew up because he incorrectly concluded that he was being "racially profiled", when in fact the officer was there to protect HIM, as the property owner. The officer has plainly stated -- he had no way of knowing whether he was dealing with the perpetrator, the homeowner, a hostage, or what. Frankly, I think both men over reacted and the situation escalated. But there is no evidence, whatsoever, that the officer overreacted. Your need to always fall on the side of law and order is tiresome. Well, yeah. I do seem to come down on the side of law and order most of the time as opposed to siding with OJ.