Have you read the police report in the Gates/Crowley case?

It was all over the internet last night, Crowley never spoke to whalen out side Gates house. The only yelling on the Audio of the tape made in the house, is Crowley yelling for back up.

Lucia Whalen an olive skinned Portuguese woman said she never spoke to Crowley outside Gates house, as he stated in his report.

Crowley said he asked for the 911 caller to meet him outside Gates house, this alone was the tip off that he was lying, police do not bring civilians into a crime in progress, they try to keep them out of harms way. This puts all his other arrests as suspect, they should be reopened and reviewed. And the sad thing about this is, if Professor Gates had been an ordinary black man, we would never have found out about the falsified report.

Gates showed his Harvard ID--case closed. Why would Crowley then summon the University Police? He should have been apologizing even to an irate Gates for suspecting him as a criminal. Gates would then not doubt have responded with understanding and appreciation the police were looking out for his place. Any further investigation, such as into the possibility two OTHER persons tried to break in, would now be conducted with the cooperation of the homeowner, Gates. Arresting Gates was never an option.

Also nauseating is Crowley's concern about the delicate ears of the gathered crowd. He professes to know their attitude, which is a crock.

By offering the actual police report, the OP ought to be in line for the Pulitzer prize. The news is full of gobbledy-guuk not facts.

yes i have read the police report, and based on the police report and nothing but the report written by officer crowley himself it's very obvious that officer crowley acted inappropriately.

as the report states the reason for henry gates arrest was the display of "continued tumultuous behavior" not any kind of threat to officer or his safety or any question of henry gates jr identity as the home owner.

from what i've read in officer crowleys report robert gates jr has a really great case for entrapment or possibly false arrest.

verbally abusing officer crowley was not sufficient grounds to bring charges against henry gates, getting gates out of the house is vital to the charge of disorderly conduct. by instructing henry gates jr to "speak with him outside" officer crowley created an environment designed for the arrest of henry gates and nothing else.

this incident is not about race so much as it is about a cop not getting his respect. the fact that the charges were dropped almost immediately after the arrest speaks volumes.

I'm sorry, black, white, red or brown, if I see suspicious people attempting to force my neighbors door open; I would have called police too.

Was I seeing things or did Mr. Gates state that his door could not be secured because of a previous attempted breakin?

Mr. Gates should be thanking his neighbor for doing what she believed was the right thing. Most others wouldn't have even bothered. BTW I believe she would have called regardless of race.

I think Mr. Gates has other incidents were he has thrown his weight around based on his connections and it has become a natural reaction to abuse those he deems to be unworthy. Shame on Obama for further contributing to this obvious display of another high minded person making name dropping power threats.

From my perspective, I believe if there was any bigotry it was against the Sgt. By Mr. Gates. He made it very clear that he had no respect for a common officer and I would bet the farm that if the police Cheif had been the responding officer, Mr. Gates attitude would have been much different.

Just another puffed up name dropper who thinks he's above the working class community because of who he knows. Pathetic!!!!!

Thank you for the link; I've been trying to find the report to read so I can have all the facts. I asked 4 questions about this topic earlier today which are still open; I'll be considerate and not post the links here (I hate it when people put links to their Questions in their Answer). People can click on my icon and go to my Questions on my profile page.

It doesn't say if a drug test was done on Gates, but based on his behaviour, I'd say they would have been justified in doing it.

But I'm confused.....is it okay to be abusive and racist to police officers, or only if you're friends with Obama? Not that I would, but I'd really like to know the rules.

I'll put the link to your Question in my Questions from earlier today so that people can read the report (and answer your question).

Thanks again!

Yes, I have read the report, - and thanks for posting a link to it for those who have not yet done so; the report itself speaks VOLUMES about this matter...

It would make it too easy for Gates, as well as Obama, if Officer Gates were to take the proverbial 'high road' on this matter because, in allowing Gates and Obama to give Officer Crowley the opportunity to let 'bygones be bygones', Crowley would be giving the impression that he had some hand in the escalation of the incident which, of course, he did not.

Given this, I certainly hope Officer Crowley has more sense than to accept the President's glad-handed invitation to have a beer with him and Prof. Gates; nothing but another thinly veiled attempt by the President to pass himself off himself as a 'regular' guy.

Instead of taking the time to have that beer with them, Officer Crowley should spend that time with his lawyers in preparing a 'defamation of character' lawsuit against Gates and, once filed, Officer Crowley should pursue the lawsuit with every fiber of his being because this isn't about a black professor being racially profiled. No...

What it IS about (or at least what it SHOULD be about) is ending the ability of minorities to play the 'race card'. For decades now this ploy has proved to be so successful that we now see, as demonstrated in the Gates debacle, that the 'race card' will be played without even a shred of evidence to support their claims of racism; it's just another tool minorities keep in their politically-correct toolbox, - a toolbox filled with tools which have no other purpose but to perpetuate the racial guilt-trip which has been so cunningly placed upon a vast number of the majority of this country.

That President Obama himself has stupidly used that tool here is a sad testament to just how far this practice has been seemingly accepted as 'fair'.

Until we are ALL willing to 'call a bluff' when a 'race card' is played, - its use will just get more out of hand. We all know that it's not the 'best' card for them to play, - Hell, even THEY know it. But, thanks to a couple of decades of our society-degrading approach to 'political correctness' it remains, quite simply,...

...the 'easiest' card for them to play.

It's time to put down the dogma of political-correctness, once and for all, so that fairness can be applied, - to one and all.

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The charges were dropped and that was a big mistake because that is like the police admitting liability when there was none. Gates is another Sharpton, Jackson or Wright.

clearly he couldn't handle his anger after being accused of trying to break in to his own house, even after the police officer left his house and wasn't even going to arrest him. also the woman who called the cops reported seeing two black men with backpacks who she thought were trying to break in, either there were some other people who had actually tried to break in, or then she was racially biased and assumed that the two black guys were trying to break in somewhere. it just sounds like white people are overly carefull and black people take it extremely personally when questioned by the police, which they have a right to but then again people do have a right to call the cops if they truly think someone was going to break in somewhere or arrest people for unruly behavior in public.

I would venture to say that the "great" Obama is trying his best to have the audio/video tapes NOT be shown or mysteriously disappear to protect his old racist friend Gates.

The prosecutors already let go of the case.