Lets start from the beginning with the clueless woman who called 911. Like the fine citizen she is, she saw 2 men acting suspiciously and attempting to force their way into a residence. Once the 911 tapes were released they revealed 2 key facts: firstly, she is truly a babbling idiot who probably wouldn't recognize her asshole from her elbow and secondly, that she clearly states that one of the men is "possibly hispanic," which ironically leads back to point one. The thing that bugs me is she still claims she never mentioned race in her phone call, which is an obvious lie, but at a recent press conference the media thought asking dull, meaningless questions would make better news. If I was there, I'd be sitting in the front row and would call her out on the first question: "So when you said one of the suspects was 'possibly hispanic,' you didn't mention race?" Yeah, sit down bitch, I wouldn't invited you to the beer summit either. The other thing that got me about this "possibly hispanic" thing is the fact that Gates is black as night. I mean, I could describe him as black from a mile away, nevermind the curb 50 from his house. Enjoy your 5 minutes of fame cause now everyone realizes what a complete moron you are.
This is where your education begins, because an officer acting with his personal safety in mind doesn't make as good a news story as a racist cop does. Officer pulls up, but doesn't see anyone outside the house. he has no idea if they have weapons or if they are even still on scene thanks to the brilliant 911 call outlined earlier. So the officer investigates the premises and finds Gates, but he's still not out of the woods yet because: he could one of the 2 "robbers," or the 2 "robbers" could still be in the house. I'm going to assume by the outcome, that Crowley treated him like a suspect. This obviously elicited the racist accusations because clearly black people don't commit crimes (walk alone through Roxbury at night if you believe that). But, we're not just talking about any black man here, we're talking about a privileged one; and we all know with privilege comes a serious stream of f-bombs and mother-f's for any law enforcement official who gets in the way of that privilege. Thus the reason he was arrested for disorderly conduct.
Let me reiterate, he was arrested for DISORDERLY CONDUCT not attempted b&e or b&e. All he had to do was produce positive ID, but because of his "dignity," had to play the race card first. It had nothing to do with being white, black or possibly hispanic, it had everything to do with acting like a pompous and entitled asshole.
Now, I don't even want to try to guess the number of black people arrested everyday for disorderly conduct in the entire United States, but for the sake of argument lets lowball it and say it's one. That's still 180 other black people Captain Dipshit Obama didn't give a shit about, but he somehow decides this is a great time for a great quote. "I don't have all the facts..." whoa, stop right there and shut the fuck up "...the Cambridge police..." it's your grave moron "...acted stupidly." Republicans already don't like you and you just managed to drop the jaws of most of the Democrats that do like you. Anytime (especially as president) you start a sentence with the words I don't have all the facts you know it's gonna be an MBTA train wreck at best and a Titanic-esque disaster at worst. To top it off, you are cluelessly commenting on a local police issue in a city that probably 85% of America doesn't even know where it is.
The solution to all this, besides backpedaling like a mo-fo and getting back to president stuff like nukes in Korea, make a bigger deal out of nothing and have them over for a beer. Great idea until he realizes:
But now I need to pick a beer to drink so all the papers can run it on the cover. I know, I'll go with something American like Bud Light so I look good.Only problem is that the only people who drink Bud Light is cheap alcoholics and college who found some extra cash on a Friday night and decided to upgrade from Natty Ice for the evening. You know it was a dumb idea when even the astute reporters of a free newspaper (the Metro) call you out on your fake choice. Gates wasn't far behind with his choice of Red Stripe, anything else someone would accuse him of being and Oreo (black on the outside, white on the inside) so it wasn't really a choice as much as it was a requirement.
At some point during the media frenzy I heard some nit-wit reporter, pretending to be unbiased, use a statistic that 7 times as many blacks are locked up in jail as white guys, and determined that cops are clearly racist. I hate this stat because anyone who tries to defend it or explain it is automatically a racist, but has anyone ever stopped to think that maybe 7 times as many black people as white people commit crimes. Holy shit, I think I'm onto something, and hell, I'll even take this one step further. Maybe 7 times as many black people commit crimes because there are 7 times as many black people living in poor neighborhoods where more crime tends to occur. Oh damn, I'm raining all over their parade. Take a stroll through any rough or high crime neighborhood and I'm fairly certain you will find more black people, along with other minorities there than white people. The schools in these areas aren't as good as schools in better neighborhoods, resulting in fewer opportunities and making it more likely for kids to turn to crime in these neighborhoods. In 4 years at Wentworth I received numerous safety alerts abouts muggins and robberies on and around campus. In those 4 years not a single one involved white suspects, go figure we were on the edge of several housing projects and high crime neighborhoods.I'm not saying racist cops don't exist, but I'm also not saying every black guy is innocent, the truth is somewhere in the middle. It's not rocket science folks, it just doesn't make as good a news story.
Moral of the story, sound like you have a clue when you call 911 because those calls actually are recorded.
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