CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — The white police sergeant criticized by President Barack Obama for arresting black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his Massachusetts home is a police academy expert on understanding racial profiling. Cambridge Sgt. James Crowley has taught a class about racial profiling for five years at the Lowell Police Academy after being hand-picked for the job by former police Commissioner Ronny Watson, who is black, said Academy Director Thomas Fleming. “I have nothing but the highest respect for him as a police officer. He is very professional and he is a good role model for the young recruits in the police …Read more […..]

Referring to the officer’s “Mama” doesn’t sound so professional to me….Doesn’t surprise me either after seeing him on TV.NATICK, Mass. — A white police sergeant who arrested renowned black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. said Thursday he’s disappointed President Barack Obama said officers acted “stupidly,” despite acknowledging he didn’t know all the facts. Sgt. James Crowley responded to Gates’ home near Harvard University last week to investigate a report of a burglary and demanded Gates show him identification. Police say Gates at first refused and accused the officer of racism. Gates was charged with disorderly conduct. …Read more […..]

So, now this officer’s face is all over the news(not here) and the press is at his house…. What a travesty this has become with even the President going off on the police. I am just wondering why nobody is questioning the professor’s conduct?? Would it be “racist” to do so??? Just wondering….NATICK, Mass. — A white police sergeant accused of racism after he arrested renowned black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home insisted Wednesday he won’t apologize for his treatment of the Harvard professor, but President Barack Obama said police had acted “stupidly.” Gates has demanded …Read more […..]

So, Obama is an expert on Policing now? I am sure he knows more facts than we do on the matter too huh? Placing all the blame on the officer when he doesn’t know everything that happened is real convenient, especially when you have lots of special interest groups in mind…. WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama said Wednesday that police acted “stupidly” in the arrest of prominent black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. and that despite racial progress blacks and Hispanics are still singled out unfairly for arrest. “This still haunts us,” Obama said. …Read more […..]

Does this educated man even comprehend the idea that maybe he should have explained why he broke into the house? Does it take a brain surgeon to understand that if you did nothing wrong then you just tell police what they are asking? Did he think the police had nothing better to do than go to pick out his house and harass him because he is black??This brings up the many instances of me being accused of being racist, etc… for pulling over a black man–don’t recall any instances of this with black women. The last time it happened was when I was on midnights and clocked a speeding auto–my standards were higher than most so …Read more […..]