More on Gates
The Smoking Gun has the
Cambridge Police Department report.
The media spin on this story by the Washington Post is interesting as it said about his house:
Gates was arrested outside his house in Cambridge, Mass., after a neighbor reported seeing two black men in the middle-class, predominantly white area pushing against the front door.
Gates lives on Ware Street. I went to school in Boston and spent a lot of time hanging around Cambridge and I know Ware Street. Here is Ware Street:
I am sorry but when you have houses that directly border the Harvard Campus, houses that probably sell in the $5M on up range, this is not a middle-class neighborhood. This is a neighborhood of very wealthy people. Harvard also owns a lot of properties around Cambridge so I am guessing that they are cutting Gates a sweetheart deal on the rent. This is furthered by the note in the Police Report that Harvard dispatched a locksmith to repair the door - just being a good landlord.
Finally, in the Department of Irony Department, this from Kathryn Jean Lopez at
National Review:
He Teaches Racial Profiling
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 racial profiling.
Cambridge Sgt. James Crowley has taught a class on 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 academy," Fleming told The Associated Press on Thursday.
The course, called "Racial Profiling," teaches about different cultures that officers could encounter in their community "and how you don't want to single people out because of their ethnic background or the culture they come from," Fleming said.
Posted by DaveH at July 23, 2009 8:17 PM