Cops Sound Off

BOSTON (AFP) – Boston police said they had suspended an officer for a racist email likely to renew tensions over the recent arrest of black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates.”Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis placed Officer Justin Barrett, 36, on administrative leave pending the outcome of a termination hearing,” a spokesman for the force told AFP in a statement.”Commissioner Davis was made aware of a correspondence with racist remarks and yesterday removed the officer of his gun and badge.”The email describes Gates, who was arrested and briefly detained earlier this month at Harvard, near Boston, as a “banana-eating …Read more […..]

A great start! About time that this is addressed…. How many times have you been right behind someone who is texting–or talking on the phone for that matter– and they are in the left lane driving sloooow. You are on their butt and then after what seems forever they see you in their mirror and get mad that you are on their a$$. Getting out of hand. Will be interesting how this is handled in court. I can see it now, attorneys trying to say that their clients were not texting and that the officer made it up, was racial profiling, or whatever else they can conjure up. And, will officers be able to confiscate phones to prove …Read more […..]

I don’t think anything is going to change some people’s minds from what I have been seeing on TV. Pretty pathetic in my opinion.CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – A Cambridge police sergeant who responded to a 911 call about a possible break-in at the home of black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. told dispatchers that Gates was being uncooperative and to “keep the cars coming.”Another voice can be heard in the background of the transmission, but it is unintelligible and unclear if it is Gates.Cambridge police released recordings of police radio transmissions and of the 911 call Monday following more than a week of controversy …Read more […..]