You're too good Laye. I mean I still don't get how accusing a police officer of racism or is it the "loud and tumultuous behaviour" is arrestable offense? Is the porch of one's home considered public space in Mass???? What tha hell is tumultuous behaviour????? I mean I can see if Gates Mooned th guy or did cartwheels toward him beyond his yard. Laye I still don't get it. I'm sorry for putting you through this but you get dispatched to nvestigate breaking and entering and you find that the homeowner broke into his own friggin house. Then you get upset that there was no crime and you had to take someone to jail for his/her perception of your behaviour (racism). You call it friggin tumultuous behaviour. He's lucky it was Gates. I got your tumultuus right here. I mean can't you just go back to the station relieved of filing a breaking and entering report????? Are cops in Mass this sensitive????? What??? Crowley??? WHat kinda name is that anyway??? Haruna. Wowo. Obasanjo. Men if it were'nt for my prophets, and on this god-forsaken planet, I'd be red to go. My God!!!! as our Ginny is wont to quip. And if I know Gates well, he'll make the movie. The man is ever-restless. I guess he two black men were Gates and the Taxi driver??? And how come we haven't heard anything from the Taxi driver???? Never mind. I think he might have ben a friggin Nigerian. Olusegun!!! I'm outta here men.
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I can't make heads or tails out of this report. Thanx Laye for sharing. Was it Gates who called from a woman's house for the breaking and entering or was it a woman not knowing it was Gates himself? Was the woman a neighbour of Gates'? And what was Gates finding his front door damaged all about? What was more important? Investigating a breaking and entering or arresting the victim of the breaking and entering for "loud and tumultuous behaviour"? And was that a public space? Gates' home? I don't get any of this. Laye you gotta follow up on this for us. Thanx again. Haruna. If we think there was racism before Obama, we aint seen nothing yet. Obama's election has brought out a lot more closet racists.
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- Story Highlights
- African-American scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. charged with disorderly conduct
- Cambridge officer came to his home last week after report of break-in
- Police report: Gates refused to ID himself, accused officer of racism
- Gates' lawyer and fellow professor wri tes about incident on Web site The Root
From Deb Brunswick
CNN(CNN) -- African-American scholar and Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested last week on a charge of disorderly conduct after a confrontation with an officer at his home, according to a Cambridge, Massachusetts, police report.According to the report, officers responded to a call Thursday from a woman who said she saw "a man wedging his shoulder into the front door" at Gates' house near the university. The report, obtained by CNN affiliate WCVB-TV, indicates Gates refused to identify himself to a police officer, claiming the officer was a racist.Sgt. James Crowley of the Cambridge Police Department stated in the report that he told Gates he was investigating a report of a break-in at the residence. According to the report, Gates "opened the front door and exclaimed, 'Why, because I'm a black man in America?' "Crowley wrote in the report that he warned Gates two times he was becoming disorderly. After Gates continued to yell and accuse him of racial bias, Crowley wrote he arrested Gates for "loud and tumultuous behavior in a public space."A statement by Gates' lawyer and fellow Harvard professor Charles Ogletree said that the incident occurred when Gates returned to his home after a trip to China.Gates, accompanied by a driver, found the front door damaged.He entered the house wi th his key through the rear door. Then, he and and driver were able to force the front door open, Ogletree said in his20statement.The statement was published on the Web site The Root, of which Gates is editor-in-chief.An officer arrived and told Gates he was investigating a call about a breaking-and-entering at the residence, Ogletree wrote.Gates identified himself at the officer's request, according to Ogletree."He [Gates] turned to walk into the kitchen where he had left his wallet. The officer followed him. Professor Gates handed both his Harvard University identification and his valid Massachusetts driver's license to the officer," Ogletree wrote on The Root.Ogletree's statement also said that Gates asked Crowley for his name and badge number several times without success.Then, when Gates followed Crowley to the front door, Crowley said, "Thank you for accommodating my earlier request, and then placed him [Gates] under arrest," Ogletree said.The Cambridge Police Department would not release any information regarding the incident.Gates has one of 20 prestigious "university professors" positions at Harvard University, according to WCVB, and joined the faculty in 1991. He is considered one of the nation's pre-eminent scholars of African-American studies. In 1997, Time magazine placed him on its list of the 25 most influential A mericans.To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] 陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇陇To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] いいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいい
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