Crowley Disappointed Obama 'Waded Into Local Issue'

[fryingdutchman]

How is knowing your rights meandering? Do you even know the definition of the word meander?

He probably doesn't, Kristy...seeing as he repeatedly misspells the word "course" as "coarse."

[fryingdutchman]

From yesterday's Boston Herald...

Officer in Henry Gates flap tried to save Reggie Lewis
Denies he’s a racist, won’t apologize
By Laurel J. Sweet, Marie Szaniszlo, Laura Crimaldi, Jessica Van Sack & Joe Dwinell
Thursday, July 23, 2009 - Updated 15h ago


The Cambridge cop prominent Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. claims is a racist gave a dying Reggie Lewis mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in a desperate bid to save the Celtics [team stats] superstar’s life 16 years ago Monday.

“I wasn’t working on Reggie Lewis the basketball star. I wasn’t working on a black man. I was working on another human being,” Sgt. James Crowley, in an exclusive interview with the Herald, said of the forward’s fatal heart attack July 27, 1993, at age 27 during an off-season practice at Brandeis University, where Crowley was a campus police officer.

It’s a date Crowley still can recite by rote - and he still recalls the pain he suffered when people back then questioned whether he had done enough to save the black athlete.

“Some people were saying ‘There’s the guy who killed Reggie Lewis’ afterward. I was broken-hearted. I cried for many nights,” he said.

Crowley, 42, said he’s not a racist, despite how some have cast his actions in the Gates case. “Those who know me know I’m not,” he said.

Yesterday, Lewis’ widow, Donna Lewis, was floored to learn the embattled father of three on the thin blue line of a national debate on racism in America was the same man so determined to rescue her husband.

“That’s incredible,” Lewis, 44, exclaimed. “It’s an unfortunate situation. Hopefully, it can resolve itself. The most important thing is peace.”

Gates, 58, an acclaimed scholar on black history and a PBS documentarian, went on the attack against Crowley on Tuesday, demanding he apologize for arresting him for disorderly conduct last Thursday while investigating a reported break-in at his home. Gates, returning from a trip, was seen by a Malden woman trying to force his front door open. Police alleged he initially refused to identify himself.

Though he harbors no “ill feelings toward the professor,” a calm, resolute Crowley said no mea culpa will be forthcoming.

“I just have nothing to apologize for,” he said. “It will never happen.”

Attorney Charles Ogletree, Gates’ close friend and fellow Harvard savant, told the Herald, “It’s regrettable and unfortunate that the officer feels that way, and I do hope that some progress will be made in healing this wound.”

Gates, who upon his arrest allegedly bellowed to a gathering crowd on Ware Street, “This is what happens to black men in America!” believes he was targeted by Crowley - whom he called a “rogue” cop - because of his race.

Cambridge Police Commissioner Robert Haas, with Gates attorney Walter Prince’s consent, agreed Tuesday to drop the charge of disorderly conduct, calling the incident “an unfortunate set of circumstances.”

Crowley, an 11-year veteran of the force, oversees the evidence room, paid details and records unit. He also coaches youth basketball, baseball and softball.

Joseph McDonald, a former director of public safety at Brandeis, said Crowley was “a real pro,” calling Gates’ racial profiling charge “strange.”

“You just do the job as a cop. You don’t look at the color of skin. You’re just trying to help people,” said McDonald, 57.

[Guitar Shark]

One thing that I hadn't noticed until this morning is that Obama and Gates are "friends."

I still think Obama made a mistake by getting involved, but at least his involvement makes a litte more sense now. He was trying to support his buddy. Short sighted, but a bit more understandable.

[Igosplut]

One thing that I hadn't noticed until this morning is that Obama and Gates are "friends."

I still think Obama made a mistake by getting involved, but at least his involvement makes a litte more sense now. He was trying to support his buddy. Short sighted, but a bit more understandable.

MA governor Deval "Tax It All" Patrick (who is a close friend of Obama's) came out yesterday against the police and said he supports the accusations of Gates ( I couldn't find any links, but they reported it on the Boston news this morning)
So this is only going from bad to worse....

[Guitar Shark]

Ugh...

[Blackflag]

Any more contradictions, dickhead?

Gates was already in his house and had been, he entered through the side door and had already called his lease company to complain. If the guy was white, the cop never would of followed him in and the officer's excuse of "procedure" sounds like utter shit. The call was based on the observations of a passing pedestrian, not on the residents..

What contradiction? As I said above... The cop gets called to the house about a break-in, and sees someone inside who won't come outside and identify himself. If it's not "procedure" to go inside, what do you think procedure is? Stand outside and talk to him through the wall? Take his word for it that he lives there? Leave? Give me a break.

You don't know what really happened, and neither do I, or Obama. But if there's any truth to the cop's report, Gates is a douchebag just looking to sue / be a celebrity. Either way, Obama was an idiot to get involved.

[jhale667]

Just saw on CNN.com that Obama called the arresting officer moments ago...would loooooove to be a fly on the wall for that conversations...

"Yeah, I said you're stupid - you got a problem with that, officer?" :D

[Blackflag]

Just saw on CNN.com that Obama called the arresting officer moments ago...would loooooove to be a fly on the wall for that conversations...

"Yeah, I said you're stupid - you got a problem with that, officer?" :D

I think it was quite the opposite...he's in cya mode now.

[GAR]

Best.
Prez fukkup.
EVER.

[Blackflag]

Best.
Prez fukkup.
EVER.

Come on...that would have to be when the last guy puked all over the jap.

[FORD]

Come on...that would have to be when the last guy puked all over the jap.

That wasn't the last guy. That was his daddy, back in 1992.

Wake up, Rip Van Pibbles!


As for the last guy...... well his entire pResidency was a fuckup.

[Blackflag]

I knew that. I was just testing you.

[Blackflag]

"The president said he had telephoned the white policeman who arrested Gates, and he said the conversation confirmed his belief that the officer was a good man and an outstanding officer."

[Igosplut]

Like I've said before just watching the Boston news the interviews with the witness's they state very clearly that Gates yelled right from the beginning (I saw the one with the woman that made the original call), and the cop was very calm. That, and anybody who's interviewed and knows the cop have all but been ballwashing him. So anybody (public official) that takes the racist stance, they're making themselves to be just that...

[jhale667]

Best.
Prez fukkup.
EVER.

Lamest. Roth Army poster. EVER.