All this racism is killing me inside...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is arrested, it must be racially motivated right?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/23/officer.gates.arrest/index.html

Before making your conclusion, you should probably read the police report.

PDF file of police report, downloaded from Foxnews.com Gates_Arrest

Let's imagine that the Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - instead of breaking into his own home - hired a locksmith. He would still be required to show the locksmith some form of ID, proving that the property was indeed his residency. Would Gates have reacted the same way if a locksmith asked him to show some ID?

Gates did NOT own the house he was staying in, he was renting it. Is it possible that Gates didn't call a locksmith, because the ID did not show the address to be his residence. After all the locksmith won't let you in if you have no proof that you belong in the residence.

Obama when asked about the incident with Gates, one of Obama's friends, gave this reply. Note that Obama's reply was at the end of a nationally televised news conference on health care reform.

"I think it's fair to say, No. 1, any of us would be pretty angry," Obama said. "No. 2, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. And No. 3 — what I think we know separate and apart from this incident — is that there is a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately, and that's just a fact."

Obama's quote shows that he was not well informed as to what had taken place, but had already prejudged the situation.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,534615,00.html

NATICK, Mass. — 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 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. The academy trains cadets for cities across the region.

Fellow officers, black and white, say Crowley is well-liked and respected on the force. Crowley was a campus police officer at Brandeis University in July 1993 when he administered CPR trying to save the life of former Boston Celtics player Reggie Lewis. Lewis, who was black, collapsed and died during an off-season workout.

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