Gates says it's time to 'move on' from his arrest

Sunday 26th July, 05:03 AM JST

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zurcronium at 08:39 AM JST - 26th July

Where I am living now blacks do not drive into certain sections of the suburbs. If they do they get pulled over and searched. Most American cities have the same sort of layouts, inner city is black and suburbs are white and gated.

Just because Obama is President does not end segregation in the US. In fact the racists that say that Obama proves the USA has moved beyond racism are the ones most upset about this story for exposing profiling in a rich neighborhood. Fact is the whites only republcants want latinos cleaning their pools and blacks out of site.
SuperLib at 10:13 AM JST - 26th July

What does this situation have to do with racial profiling? Someone called in what they thought was an attempted break in at a specific location. The cops when to that location and questioned the person there.

If you want to have a discussion about racial profiling that's fine, but why use a situation where there was none as the catalyst? Or at best people should be questioning the neighbor who called the police in the fist place. That's the closest thing related to racial profiling in this entire situation.
LFRAgain at 12:11 PM JST - 26th July

This has absolutely nothing to do with racial profiling. At. All. To claim otherwise is simply being dishonest. Gates wasn't treated any more differently than if he had been a white man breaking into his own home, and there's nothing about the way Officer Crawley initially dealt with the situation that was problematic, as far as I'm concerned.

Gates pulled the race card, baited Crawley with it, and Crawley went for it, reacting defensively and allowing the situation to sprial out of control. The only reason there was an arrest in the first place was because of this. Crowley should have allowed professionalism to rule the day here, and he didn't.
sailwind at 03:24 PM JST - 26th July

I found a real good teaching moment on all of this.

Gates could use the advice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj0mtxXEGE8
Helter_Skelter at 05:21 PM JST - 26th July

Gates says it's time to 'move on' from his arrest

Not until he apologizes to the Cambridge Police Department and Sgt James Crowley.

Supporters including civil rights leaders Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson called the arrest an outrageous act of racial profiling.

What a couple of race pimps. I get a kick out of this every time I read it. :-D
sharky1 at 07:15 PM JST - 26th July

I noticed that the author of this article has no issues with inserting racial overtones...BLACK Professor, WHITE Police Officer, BLACK President, WHITE House...
OssanAmerica at 11:58 PM JST - 26th July

Sounds to me like Obama privately told Gates to STFU and stop raining on his parade. Issue is now "over" or rather swept under the rug.
USNinJapan2 at 12:00 AM JST - 27th July

I hope Sgt Crowley doesn't take the President up on his offer for a beer at the White House. As if that will erase the fact that Obama stated that Crowley acted stupidly in front of the international press corps on national television no less. I hope he simply ignores this meaningless photo-op.
TheQuestion at 12:20 AM JST - 27th July

I hope Sgt Crowley doesn't take the President up on his offer for a beer at the White House. As if that will erase the fact that Obama stated that Crowley acted stupidly in front of the international press corps on national television no less.

Woah woah woah, I agree with you that this is nothing more than the President trying to cut his losses and come out with a smile and a winning attitude. But for God's sake man! Its FREE BEER at the White House.
OssanAmerica at 05:17 AM JST - 27th July

Obama owes Crowley an apology. Theoretically that shouldn't be so hard since Obama himself qualified his statement that he didn't have all the facts. But that he has failed to do so, instead resorting to this juvenile lets have a beer nonsense is not becoming of a person who sits in the Oval Office.
Wolfpack at 09:48 AM JST - 27th July

The only person that has kept his cool in this whole sitution is Officer Crowley. If Crowley does go to the White House for a beer with Obama and Gates, he would be stupid to allow the situation to be used for the two race-baiters to futher their 'racial-profiling' line. There was absolutely no racial profiling on the officers part. The only profiling was on the part of Gates and Obama for assuming that the white policeman was a racist. Heck, the guy gave mouth-to-mouth recisitation to a black man. Can't see some Bull Conner type doing that. Beer yes, photo-op for Obama to propagandize about how he really isn't a race-baiter - No.
Badsey at 08:18 PM JST - 27th July

Reggie Lewis #35 was Co-Captain of the Boston Celtics and future leader of the Celtics and Boston. A huge loss that was felt by the Boston community especially after the Len Bias incident which is scary similiar.

-that is the person that Crowley tried to resuscitate.
ca1ic0cat at 03:32 AM JST - 28th July

The only lesson here is that if you disobey a lawful order given by a police officer you are subject to arrest. Any attempt to turn it into anything else is just a whitewashing to cover up Gates' and Obama's stupidity.