“I’d be effing angry, too. And the police should be coached trained to recognize the difference between someone they have offended and how to diffuse the situation not aggravate it further.”
How the eff are the cops supposed to know the trials and tribulations of his day? They’re told to investigate and they do.
They get called out by a snippy guy who refuses to show his ID and is calling them racists. They should have just said, Oh clearly he’s had a rough day. Let’s just leave him be? Even if he is robbing the place I’d hate to offend him. Gates was being rude, and quite offensive. Yet, by the very nature of doing their job they’ve offended him.
Sorry Cobble,I love you but that is bullshit.
Should they have arrested him for it? No, they should have said to themselves ‘What a pain in the balls that guy is’ and called it a day. Walked away and left it at that.
dittoburg- I understand the reason for posting stories involving white people and I doubt anyone here would say oh only Black people get arrested. But I think I can say that if Gates had been white, it wouldn’t have happened because his neighbor would have assumed- or seen- that it was him, and never called the police. In the case of the white woman arrested, she was obnoxious for no good reason. And THL’s neighbors know her so they saw a stranger go into her house and acted.
But I cannot believe a woman who was a neighbor, and head of Harvard fundraising didn’t recognize her own neighbor and a very famous professor at Harvard at that? I don’t think she’s a nutjob, I don’t believe for a second she acted out of neighborly concern.
Just like the Covert Race/Class Warfare here at Brownstoner!
You guys just kill me, you bunch of disingenuous Assholes!
Love Obama but hate your neighbor’s. The same people who was here before you!
Can’t wait for the crash!
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
“I’d be effing angry, too. And the police should be coached trained to recognize the difference between someone they have offended and how to diffuse the situation not aggravate it further.”
How the eff are the cops supposed to know the trials and tribulations of his day? They’re told to investigate and they do.
They get called out by a snippy guy who refuses to show his ID and is calling them racists. They should have just said, Oh clearly he’s had a rough day. Let’s just leave him be? Even if he is robbing the place I’d hate to offend him. Gates was being rude, and quite offensive. Yet, by the very nature of doing their job they’ve offended him.
Sorry Cobble,I love you but that is bullshit.
Should they have arrested him for it? No, they should have said to themselves ‘What a pain in the balls that guy is’ and called it a day. Walked away and left it at that.
Sweet 16
dittoburg- I understand the reason for posting stories involving white people and I doubt anyone here would say oh only Black people get arrested. But I think I can say that if Gates had been white, it wouldn’t have happened because his neighbor would have assumed- or seen- that it was him, and never called the police. In the case of the white woman arrested, she was obnoxious for no good reason. And THL’s neighbors know her so they saw a stranger go into her house and acted.
But I cannot believe a woman who was a neighbor, and head of Harvard fundraising didn’t recognize her own neighbor and a very famous professor at Harvard at that? I don’t think she’s a nutjob, I don’t believe for a second she acted out of neighborly concern.
My father made me throw out a stick of butter once, when I brought it home. And he wasn’t polite about it either!
What about me randi!!! Surely I’m up in the double digits! You’re slipping!
Remember when everyone thought margarine was good for you?
afternoon, PLUSAs. what did i miss?
quick count:
dibs 34
biff 39
rob 13 (lame)
dh 16
ENY 16
arkady 30
snappy 49 (!!)
ok im sick of it. but you get the point. PL.
I would have post-tramautic stress syndrome if what happened to Gates happened to me.
Is it too late to mention that margarine is disgusting and also bad for you?