Crowley
was totally out of line, arresting Gates for getting angry about having
his home violated. He failed to suck it up and accept that his job as a
cop sometimes put him in situations where he offended people and raised
questions of guilt when the person was clearly innocent. A cop should
understand when an honest man becomes irate when being challenged in
his own house.
Bottom line, they were both to blame. Stupid
was all over the story, on both sides.- Even if race was not involved,
history had a lesson here and both men didn't take it. They forgot it.
Gates could have decided to assume that this was not about racism, that
it was a routine check by a cop. Crowley could have remembered that
blacks have been abused since their emancipation and he was in a
sensitive situation. We really don't know whether racism was in
Crowley's heart. But Frank Zappa's rule of the universe was certainly
at play. Obama was right, but it also applies to Gates.
The
final test will be how the two men move forward with their lives. Every
element of adversity in a person's life can become a gift that changes
the person's trajectory, attitude and way of engaging with the world.
If some good comes from this ill-fated interaction, that will seal its
fate in history as more than a splash in the news for a few days.
UPDATE!
Shocker: Cops Back Cambridge Cop
When asked about the arrest of Gates at his own house for disorderly conduct, the police attorney waffled, saying that disorderly person is a tough call.
Union leaders blame gates, say president shouldn't have called it stupid, deny racism connection.
They're saying Obama didn't have all the facts. Hello!! Who has better access to facts than the president of the United States?
The police may have responded to the call properly, but the decision to arrest Gates was incredibly wrong. It is frightening to see such a collection of police leaders rising to defend such an incredibly stupid arrest.
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