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VIDEO: Black Officer Supports Professor's Arrest
Real Clear Politics ^ | July 24, 2009 | Real Clear Politics

Posted on 07/24/2009 2:23:12 PM PDT by 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."

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barackobama; blackofficer; crowley; gates; gatesgate; henrygates; lashley; leo; leonlashley; mrskippy; reverseracism; stupidgate; stupidly
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To: jessduntno

A police officer was killed in the last week in NM by a man he had arrested, handcuffed. The man was able to get ahold of a gun, shoot the officer, before being killed.

Unfortunately, police have to take over the top precautions when it comes to anything involving domestic disputes, burglaries, etc. Crazy world.


21 posted on 07/24/2009 3:42:12 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team# 36120), KW:Folding)
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To: Jeff Head

What does Al Sharpton have to say about this?
I’m sure he’s weighed in on the matter.
To destroy 0bama politically for good, we need only link him to Al Sharpton on this controversy.
Has Al given us any ammunition?
Is Al defending 0bama? Are they reading from the same script?


22 posted on 07/24/2009 3:44:01 PM PDT by counterpunch (In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.)
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To: Loud Mime

Gates resembled the Det. Axel Foley in Beverly Hills Cop trying to get a hotel room.


23 posted on 07/24/2009 3:51:22 PM PDT by School of Rational Thought (I saved 10,000 jobs today.)
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To: jmax

The sgt accepting that invite would be a win for Bambi - hope he doesn’t go. Ick.


24 posted on 07/24/2009 3:51:31 PM PDT by GnuHere
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To: ican'tbelieveit

And last month I somehow set off the office silent alarm when I unlocked the door. The police showed up and even though I was wearing our company uniform and waiting for them outside the building with my dog, they requested my ID and phoned it in. They have a responsibility to verify the identity of a person wants access to a building or home.


25 posted on 07/24/2009 3:51:53 PM PDT by CedarDave (Obama's EPA wants to get rid of cows: They emit CO2 from the front end and CH4 from the rear.)
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To: HollyB

“No one has mentioned seeing the driver there or drive away before or during the altercation.”

I’ve also wondered about that.....who, exactly was this “driver” and why is he incognito?......some obama-buddy or official who went to China with Gates?.......is something like THAT the real story being suppressed?


26 posted on 07/24/2009 3:54:14 PM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68 (CALL CONGRESSCRITTERS TOLL-FREE @ 1-800-965-4701)
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To: ianschwartz

How come it took this many days for someone to ask him his opinion? That in itself shows a lack of proper journalism. And calling him an Uncle Tom just degrades the left even further....

Sad....


27 posted on 07/24/2009 3:56:31 PM PDT by capitalistswine
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To: syriacus

Not all break-ins are attempted burglaries.

Murderers, rapists and kidnappers break into homes.

Enraged spouses break into homes to kill their family members, too.

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/04/20/news/californian/4_01_354_19_07.txt

“A Murrieta woman was murdered inside her condominium by her estranged husband, who then killed himself with a shot to his head.

“Sadie Charlee Finney, 31, was shot four times just before 9:30 p.m. Wednesday by Aaron Scot Finney, 34, who then doused the condo and his wife with gasoline, ignited it and then shot and killed himself, Murrieta police Detective Sgt. Jim Ganley said Thursday”
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“After Aaron Finney broke through the sliding glass door of the condo, he forced Sadie and the children onto the ground near the kitchen. Police found a small sledgehammer near the door that may have been used to smash the glass to get inside.”


28 posted on 07/24/2009 4:21:47 PM PDT by syriacus ("Constitutional scholar" Obama is so dumb that he maligned a fellow citizen on international TV.)
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To: Oratam
Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
29 posted on 07/24/2009 4:27:10 PM PDT by Loud Mime (The Germans weren't Nazis per se - their SOCIALISTS were. Socialists are dangerous people...)
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To: capitalistswine
He probably had talked with CNN, MSDNC, ABC,CBS ect.
They just didn't like what he had to say.
30 posted on 07/24/2009 4:27:49 PM PDT by OJDIDIT2
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To: ianschwartz
CNN (Lou Dobbs show) just exclusively reported that Gates has accepted the President's invitation to the Whitehouse. Gates issued a statement and I'm paraphrasing here, but he uses Obama’s words that he hopes it can be “a teaching moment” on race relations. It looks like Gates is taking his clues from Obama on his public statements. Perhaps they've talked on how best to "handle" the situation since they are such good friends.

When CNN talked to Gates’ attorney they asked if Gates was planning on suing. The attorney didn't give a definitive answer, but said that it “depends”.

So, is this a race baiting shakedown now?

31 posted on 07/24/2009 4:42:08 PM PDT by khnyny ("The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.")
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To: jessduntno

I’m sure you heard that Gates claimed he was claustrophobic and wasn’t put in a regular cell, but was placed in a room with his family members. Privileged treatment. What I’d like to know is how could Gates, whose supposed to suffer from claustrophobia, stand to be onboard an airplane all the way to China and back without freaking out? I guess he didn’t use the toilets during the whole trip right? Pure BS if you ask me.


32 posted on 07/24/2009 4:47:24 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: khnyny

Maybe we need to super glue some X-ray glasses to both Obama and Gate’s heads so they can see we are just the same on the inside as African(hyphen)Americans.

And that Asians are the same on the inside as Africans, and that Hispanics are the same as blacks, polish are the same etc etc etc.....


33 posted on 07/24/2009 4:49:23 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: blueplum
"Gates taught at Duke University 1989-91..."

Did you happen to listen to Rush today? He was relentless on Gates and Obama, especially Obama's trying the police Sergeant in the press. He kept calling him Barack Nifong (DA in Duke rape case). It was a riot.

34 posted on 07/24/2009 4:52:00 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: GraceG

QUOTE: This officer is a clearly an “Uncle Tom”

I am just waiting for someone to say this from the MSM.


35 posted on 07/24/2009 4:53:03 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: ianschwartz

Uncle Tom.(sarc)


36 posted on 07/24/2009 4:53:20 PM PDT by MES401067 (Lenin called them "useful idiots" I for one have no use for them.)
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To: counterpunch

Sharpton weighed in right after the incident was reported. He was planning on being with Gates during his arraignment, but I guess he won’t be going now since the charges were dropped.


37 posted on 07/24/2009 5:01:31 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: ianschwartz
Ahh that fetid stench of Bambam's humble pie, it hath a certain malodorous air...
38 posted on 07/24/2009 5:01:45 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (They were the Slave Party then; they are the Slave Party now.)
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68
some obama-buddy or official who went to China with Gates?

Is Gates "gay?" Maybe it's his boyfriend if so.

39 posted on 07/24/2009 5:06:16 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ( Obama, you're off the island!)
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To: Jeff Head

“a teaching moment”

This coming from a man with an attitude. That will be the day.


40 posted on 07/24/2009 5:26:26 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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