Legal Commentary

Bringing Race Into It

By Big Tent Democrat

Look what that terrible man, Harvard Professor Henry Louis (Skip to his friends) Gates, made a nice Boston police officer do:

An officer in the Boston Police Department has been suspended after allegedly writing a racially charged e-mail about Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. to colleagues at the National Guard, a law enforcement official said.

The law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Officer Justin Barrett referred to the black scholar as a “jungle monkey’’ in the letter, written in reaction to news coverage of Gates’s arrest July 16. Barrett was suspended Tuesday, pending a termination hearing.

I blame Gates. Here are the words Gates forced upon this police officer - "If I was the officer (Gates) verbally assaulted like a banana-eating jungle monkey, I would have sprayed him in the face with OC (pepper spray) deserving of his belligerent noncompliance." Indeed. h/t Dkos diarist Dirk McQuigley.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on July 30, 2009 (boomark / email).