VIDEO: Black Officer Supports Professor's Arrest

Real Clear Politics ^ | July 24, 2009 | Real Clear Politics

[ianschwartz]

AP: A black police officer who was at Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s home when the black Harvard scholar was arrested says he fully supports how his white fellow officer handled the situation. Sgt. Leon Lashley says Gates was probably tired and surprised when Sgt. James Crowley demanded identification from him as officers investigated a report of a burglary. Lashley says Gates' reaction to Crowley was "a little bit stranger than it should have been." Asked if Gates should have been arrested, Lashley said supported Crowley "100 percent."

[Jeff Head]

The radical left call him an Uncle Tom. They hate it when folks don't stay on their reservation like this.

BUt, nonetheless, IMHO, the most revealing thing about the issue with Gates is that he is so clearly another person and instance of a pattern that fits Obama's other "close friends".

Racist, hate filled, angry, people who detest traditional America and the free market and whose seething hatred is only just below the surface...and in some cases always out in the open. Frank Davis, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Jeremiah Wright, Henry Louis Gates, even his own wife, Michelle (by her own admission)...and the list goes on and on.

There is a clear pattern here that the MSM not only knows, but refuses to report. And that is because most of them share this hatred.

Obama and all those pushing his radical agenda are abject marxist ideologues. Their "fundamental; change" is nothing more than a destruction of the American free market and fundamental republican principle.

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[Loud Mime]

I saw “A Fish Called Wanda” Gates may have been doing an “Archie”

[Riptides]

It is unequivocally obvious that the one who “acted stupidly” was this socialist Muslim that we have for a president.
2012 can’t get here fast enough for me

[Leofl]

Thanks and bookmark

[jessduntno]

There were reports of two males...Gates would not help to “clear and secure” the premises...for all he knew, the cop could have been taken out by some armed perp waiting behind a door after telling th Prof to get rid of the Pig...this guy was right in everythig he did...this professional race hustler and pimp should have benn frog marched out of there...moving the cuffs to the front was too good for the SOB...he knew EXACTLY what he was doing...race baiting, pure and simple...

[N. Theknow]

So, did I understand correctly that Gates and his "chauffeur" were observed by a neighbor having trouble entering a house he does not own but lives in gratis from Harvard, and the neighbor called the police about a break-in?

When the police show up in answer to an attempted break-in, Gates, who is a "friend" of 0bama, will not allow them to interview the "chauffeur" and then starts berating the police?

Sounds like the "chauffeur" was Larry Sinclair.

And his name should be Swinging Gates.

[Nat Turner]

I am really concerned that the libtards will not be happy until this land is embroiled in a second civil war with strong racial overtones..

The fact that many Black people still have integrity and have NOT consumed the kool aid from DC is a great sign of justice of our cause and our Constitution..

[TSgt]

...until this land is embroiled in a second civil war with strong racial overtones..

It's coming my friend...it's coming.

[MHGinTN]

Maybe not ... there are a whole lot of black people who are awakening to the reality that the democrat criminal enterprise has been manipulating them with racism to herd them along for too long now. It only takes a few percent of black votes going to conservatives to make a double that number impact on democrap empowerment.

[blueplum]

Zero has described both Rev Wright and Gates as ‘good friends’. He has apologized for neither.

Gates taught at Duke University 1989-91, transferring to Harvard circa 91/92, about the time Zero was attending Harvard under the money of Kalid Al-Mansour, and about the time Zero was introducing his family to Rev. Wright’s racist church. Gates claims to be descended from an “Irish king’ (ring a bell?)

Gates wrote a recent article idolizing Zero’s ascendency to president, in which he whined, “this does not wipe the bloody slate clean”. He is a self-proclaimed expert on “every incident in the history of racism in America”.

In the interview linked below, Gates also claims he wants to be “a figure for prison reform”, and expressed plans to pen a documentary on being arrested “not as a famous academic but as an unrecognized black man,” (although he was very deliberate in presenting his Cambridge id instead of a driver’s license). One could assume, therefore, Gates is using this self-manufactured incident as a means to sell his hate-mongering to a producer, for a profit of course.

“Gates’s prominence played a dual role, Ogletree said, bringing unflattering attention to Gates in the first reporting of the incident. Then, it allowed him access to well-connected friends and resources that got his case dismissed quickly.”

http://sweetness-light.com/archive/gates-the-justice-system-is-rotten

[Sacajaweau]

What's really annoying is Obama saying...."See, this is what happens if you're black".....Except he picked the wrong cop....

Obama = Reverend Wrong...Again and again and again!!

[blueplum]

forgot to add, link to Gates’ speech on the election:

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/2406344/Henry-Louis-Gates-Obama

[Oratam]

“See the violence inherent in the system!” Or something along those lines.

[jwparkerjr]

I’m curious how the door was able to be opened when the officer spoke with Gates. Gates was said to have gone around and entered the house through the back door when they couldn’t get the front door opened. Next thing you know Gates is opening the door to the officer.

[HollyB]

No one has mentioned seeing the driver there or drive away before or during the altercation. The PD said that Gates was speaking loudly and strange. In fact, the PD said he was ‘still scratching his head’ at the odd behavior. Just throwing something out there - maybe the driver was in the back room filming the situation, so he could make headlines. Who knows where the driver was. But, if that is the case, he made headlines anyway - but, it’s not going the way he wanted.

[trisham]

BUt, nonetheless, IMHO, the most revealing thing about the issue with Gates is that he is so clearly another person and instance of a pattern that fits Obama's other "close friends".

Racist, hate filled, angry, people who detest traditional America and the free market and whose seething hatred is only just below the surface...and in some cases always out in the open. Frank Davis, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Jeremiah Wright, Henry Louis Gates, even his own wife, Michelle (by her own admission)...and the list goes on and on.

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Well said.

[norton]

"Gates claims to be descended from an “Irish king’ (ring a bell?)"

He's related to my Grandmother?

(Straight answer): NO, care to elaborate?

[GVnana]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — A black police officer who was at Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s home when the black Harvard scholar was arrested says he fully supports how his white fellow officer handled the situation.

Sgt. Leon Lashley says Gates was probably tired and surprised when Sgt. James Crowley demanded identification from him as officers investigated a report of a burglary. Lashley says Gates' reaction to Crowley was "a little bit stranger than it should have been."

Asked if Gates should have been arrested, Lashley said supported Crowley "100 percent."

Gates has said he was the victim of racial profiling.

I think this report supports Limbaugh's theory that Gates was actually offended these officers didn't recognize him as the "elite celebrity intellectual/friend of Obama" (my words) Gates thinks he is, and Gates went off on them for it.