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The Gates arrest only highlights the hypocrisy of New England law, police and racism vis a vis the Ogletree/Gillenwater matters.

By Christopher King

I heard about this ridiculous case this morning, Cambridge cops arresting Professor Henry Louis Gates at his own home. But really this is nothing new, because Boston cops violated another black man's rights some time ago and framed him for drugs, then his lawyers punked him out and he sued them for medical malpractice. Derrick Gillenwater is his name. Then the Courts and his lawyers took away all of his Civil Rights and First Amendment Rights during that case, so he got screwed by the cops and the courts and his lawyers.

Nice.

But Attorney Ogletree, despite reportedly being approached by Mr. Gillenwater, was not so outwardly vocal about that case and Spike Lee was nowhere to be found -- it was a blogger named "Boston Bob" who got the ACLU to hop on board and file some briefs in the matter and the cases finally settled.

Interesting.

Here is what I found by Googling Boston Bob, authored ironically by the Harvard Media Law Project, which eventually dropped coverage even though there were Massachusetts Supreme Court filings you can see -- if you follow the links there are blogs about both of Mr. Gillenwater's former attorneys.

The revolution might not be televised, but it is apparent on some blogs that our government hates to have around, LOL. I say congrats to Boston Bob and Derrick Gillenwater!

-The KingCaster

Full post as published by Chris King's 1st Amendment Page on July 21, 2009 (boomark / email).