I said it from the beginning and i wont stop saying it.
This arrest was C>O>P Contempt of Cop
If you read between the lines this cop either panicked
or set this up
this is not a normal arrest
watch in the coming days and you will see
i looked into the cops soul as GW used to say
and i smell..........some one who thinks he is important
and couldn't stand any one more important
but really the president said it best
this is simply "stupid"
July 28, 2009
Police Release 911 Call in Gates Case
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The woman who called 911 to report a possible breaking and entering at the home of Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. told the dispatcher that she had “no idea” if the two men she saw were breaking in, and said that, in fact, they might live there.
A recording of the call, released by the Cambridge Police Department on Monday, raised new questions about the case, which ended in the arrest of Professor Gates, a prominent Harvard scholar, on disorderly conduct charges on July 16.
The caller, Lucia Whalen, told the dispatcher she was calling on behalf of an older woman who lived on the street and had seen the men — who turned out to be Professor Gates and his cab driver — forcing their way into the home. Police officials said the woman had just moved into the neighborhood. Ms. Whalen works on the block.
“They kind of had to barge in and they broke the screen door and they finally got in,” Ms. Whalen said on the recording, adding that she had also seen two suitcases on the porch.
She later added, “I don’t know if they live there and just had a hard time with their key.”
At one point, the dispatcher asked if she thought the men were breaking into the house.
“I don’t know,” Ms. Whalen said, “because I have no idea.”
The dispatcher asked Ms. Whalen if the two men were black, white or Hispanic. “There were two larger men,” she said. “One looked kind of Hispanic, but I’m not really sure.” As for the second man, she said, “I didn’t see what he looked like at all,” according to the tape.
Ms. Whalen, who was calling on her cell phone from in front of Professor Gates’s house, stayed on the scene until the police arrived. A report filed by the arresting officer, Sgt. James M. Crowley, said she told him she had seen “what appeared to be two black males with backpacks” on the porch of the home.
Police officials stood by the report in interviews over the weekend, but on Monday, Ms. Whalen’s lawyer said she never mentioned race to Sergeant Crowley.
“She didn’t speak to Sergeant Crowley at the scene except to say, ‘I’m the one who called,’ ” the lawyer, Wendy J. Murphy, said. “And he said, ‘Wait right there,’ and walked into the house. She never used the word black and never said the word ‘backpacks’ to anyone.”
The Cambridge police did not immediately return a call seeking comment on the inconsistency.
Ms. Whalen said she called the police because the neighbor saw the incident and was concerned.
“Otherwise I probably wouldn’t have noticed it at all,” she said, on the tape.
The police also released a recording of the radio communications between Sergeant Crowley and a dispatcher just before and during the incident. When the sergeant asked if the dispatcher knew the race of the suspects, she answered, “Unknown on the race,” adding that “one may be Hispanic, I’m not sure.”
After Sergeant Crowley arrived at the home, according to the tape, he radioed that Professor Gates was in fact the resident but described him as “uncooperative” and asked for backup, saying, “Keep the cars coming.” He also asked the dispatcher to “send the Harvard University police this way.”
The confrontation between Professor Gates and Sergeant Crowley transfixed the nation and set off a heated debate about race. Professor Gates said he had been a victim of racial profiling; Sergeant Crowley said that race had nothing to do with the arrest, and that he took the professor into custody because he was shouting and acting unruly.
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