some stupid ass on CNN defending the cops and telling Obama not to stereotype Police Officers

[JI7]

this guy is such a fucking idiot. claiming Obama stereotyped the police. anytime the host asks him questions that show the cops might be wrong like asking the professor to step outside of the house because they couldn't arrest him inside the idiot said, "i don't believe that".

the idiot kept defending the cop saying the professor was acting a certain way and maybe they didn't know it was really his house . when the host told him he saw the ID the fucking idiot said it happened before he saw the ID.

the problem with all of this is we now have the facts . before it might be understandable but now we know what happened. the cop KNEW it was Gate's in his own home when he arrested him.

that guy was such a fucking douchebag. and this is why people get angry at cops. they almost ALWAYS defend the bad ones.

and becoming a Police Officer is a choice. if they can't handle people acting certain ways then they should look for another job. workers at stores and restaurants would never be able to treat asshole customers the way cops treat some people.

[Raineyb]

1. Acting a certain way?

It sounds like the idiot on CNN was using the "uppity negro" defense.

I have no argument with what you said, I'm just commenting.

Regards

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. K&R

[Synnical]

3. I heard it, too - here's the transcript

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0907/28/ltm.02.html

ROBERTS: On Thursday, the president will meet at the White House with Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the Cambridge police officer who arrested him, Sergeant James Crowley.

But the newly released 911 tapes and recordings of Crowley's communication with his fellow officers are raising some new questions this morning.

For more on all of that, I'm joined by police detective Lieutenant Steven Rogers, a 30-year veteran of the Nutley, New Jersey Police Department.

He's also the author of "Proven Strategies for Effective Community Oriented Policing," this hot little book that I have in my hands right now. There you go, and you can take a picture of it.

Steve, thanks very much for being with us. Let's Listen, first of all, to a little bit of the 911 call. This is Lucille Whalen, who is the woman who called in after talking with a neighbor who says that she saw a couple of people allegedly trying to break in to the home of Henry Louis Gates Jr. Let's listen.

ROGERS: Sure.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are they still in the house?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They are still in the house, I believe yes.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are they white, black, or Hispanic?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, there were two larger men. One looked kind of Hispanic, but I'm not really sure.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

ROBERTS: So the official police report said the 911 call had described two African-Americans who were trying to break into a house. Whalen's attorney disputed that whole notion, saying that she never said that two black men were trying to break into the house and the 911 tape would seem to back her up on that.

So a couple of questions arise out of this. What would lead, a, to that discrepancy? And, b, based on that 911 call, what would Sergeant Crowley have expected he was coming upon when he went to Henry Gates Jr.'s house?

DET. LT. STEVEN ROGERS, FORMER MEMBER, FBI JOINT TERRORISM TASK FORCE: Obviously there is a discrepancy, and that's something that the police department is going to have to work through.

However, I'm troubled, John, over the fact this has become a discussion about racial profiling. That was never the case. These police officers responded to a scene that was burglarized once before, and they never brought up race.

What's troubling about this is that the president of the United States made this into an issue of stereotyping the color blue. And this is a problem police officers have nationally.

We can't look at every police officer as being prejudice and profiling as a result of responding to any crime scene that involves a person of color.

So what I'm saying is that these officers acted properly. They did what they had to do according to law. And unfortunately, race has come into this picture.

ROBERTS: So do you think that the president overstepped when he responded to Lynn Sweet from the "Chicago Sun-Times" question about this case?

ROGERS: Yes, John. On fact, the president did what people across the country do when it comes to police actions like this, he stereotyped. He should not have done that. He should have gotten the facts.

Nowhere was race ever a part of this picture. Those officers responded to a scene of a crime. They didn't profile, they didn't pick out a white man, black man, a Hispanic man. When they got there, they had a situation they had to deal with and they dealt with it very professionally.

ROBERTS: Do we know that race never became an issue here, because Professor Gates insists that he believes he was being racially profiled in his own home? And we have some radio transcriptions of the communications between Sergeant Crowley and his dispatcher. Let's listen to some of those and discern what we can take away from that.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Gentleman says he presides here. He's uncooperative, but keep the cars coming.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

ROBERTS: He says, a, the gentleman says he resides here. He's being uncooperative. Keep the cars coming.

So he's got a case where he -- maybe his reason to believe that Gates actually lives there. But he continues to call for backup and he says that he's being uncooperative.

ROGERS: The key is uncooperative. I've responded to many scenes where people are in their own home. I don't know that they live there. They had not yet shown me identification. So I would say would you please step outside, just like these officers did.

You don't know if that person actually lives there. They may have weapons in the house, there may be someone else in the house.

ROBERTS: OK, so why do you ask the person to step outside, because supporters of Dr. Gates say he asked him to step outside so that he could arrest him because he couldn't arrest him in his own home.

ROGERS: No, I don't think that's true. I think the police officers asked him to step outside because they did not know that he actually was the person who lived there. I don't believe that -- ROBERTS: He showed him identification.

ROGERS: Well, I don't believe he did that before they asked him to step outside. If you look at the whole transcript, the professor was rather combative in the beginning. He said, don't you know who I am? The officers didn't know who he was.

So you step outside because there could be someone else in that house. You want to control the situation.

I don't believe the police asked him to step outside to arrest him. I just think they wanted to make sure they were safe, and they tried to contain the situation, but Professor Gates inflamed the situation.

ROBERTS: So all of them are getting together for a beer at the White House on Thursday. President Obama says he hopes he can use this as a teaching moment. If this is to be a teaching moment, what's the take-away message?

ROGERS: The teaching moment is to the president of the United States, don't stereotype police officers. That's the teaching moment. I believe --

ROBERTS: You think that's the only teachable moment here?

ROGERS: Well, no. I think that's a very primary teaching moment. In other words, something we should take away from this. There is --

ROGERS: Nothing about how the interaction between the -- between the police officer and the -- and Dr. Gates could have been --

ROBERTS: No, I believe --

ROGERS: -- could have defused a tense situation?

ROGERS: John, the police didn't cause this situation. They did their job according to the standard operating procedures of that police department and police agencies across the country.

Sure, we need to lower the rhetoric -- we need to lower the rhetoric, but with the truth. The truth of the matter is the police did their job. The professor was offended that they didn't know him. And we have the president of the United States injecting himself in a local issue that would have never got this far if he didn't involve himself.

ROBERTS: I think there are probably people in this country who may argue with that position.

ROGERS: Sure they will.

ROBERTS: Steve, it's good to talk to you this morning. Thanks for coming in.

ROGERS: Thank you very much.

ROBERTS: We really appreciate it.

Now that you've heard the 911 tapes, we want to know what you think about the controversy surrounding the Gates case. You can leave a comment on our show blog at CNN.com/amfix, or call our show hotline at 1-877-my-amfix.

[zbdent]

4. If Obama didn't have his Secret Service with him, and he drove 2 miles over the speed limit

in a BMW ... do you really think he wouldn't be pulled over for DWB?

[KittyWampus]

5. you shoulda heard Juan Williams last weekend.

[timeforpeace]

7. What did he say?

[KittyWampus]

8. He did a piece on NPR with host about how Obama damaged himself and left a stain on his Presidency

with his comments.

Also, Williams claimed Obama got the facts wrong, when our POTUS most certainly didn't.

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6. everytime i turn on cnn it's palin or jackson...fuggem