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 […..]

EMERSON, Ga. –Police in the Bartow County town of Emerson believe a routine traffic stop helped them intercept a large shipment of cocaine headed for Cobb County. It was a comedy of errors on the suspect’s part that helped officers discover the shipment of cocaine hidden in the car.It started as a simple traffic stop for Emerson Officer Kyle Teems. The black Chevy was doing 91 MPH in a 70 MPH zone — but it quickly went downhill.”It looked suspicious, they were coming from Tennessee and they didn’t have any type of identification on them. So we asked for consent to search and then found the illegal contraband in the trunk,” …Read more […..]

Is it possible that Gates purposely went off on Crowley in order to create buzz so that his new TV documentary would get more attention? Just a thought…BOSTON (July 26) — Black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. says he’s ready to move on from his arrest by a white police officer, hoping to use the encounter to improve fairness in the criminal justice system and saying “in the end, this is not about me at all.”After a phone call from President Barack Obama urging calm in the aftermath of his arrest last week, Gates said he would accept Obama’s invitation to the White House for a beer with him and Cambridge police Sgt. …Read more […..]

Guess all it takes is a visit to the White House and a beer to calm things down? Amazing the great things that can be accomplished with beer!! We will see how this plays out but it is funny to watch “The One” attempting damage control. Wonder what the professor will have to say….WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama concedes his words — that a white police officer “acted stupidly” when he arrested a black university scholar in his own home — were ill-chosen. But, while he invited both men to visit him at the White House, Obama stopped short of publicly apologizing for his remark. The president …Read more […..]