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: Dispatches from the Culture WarsPolice Union Defends Cop in Gates Arrest
By Ed Brayton
I'm shocked - shocked! - that the police union would defend the cop who arrested Henry Louis Gates in his home on charges that lasted all of four hours before being dropped. Hell, he could have shot Gates in the head and pissed on his dead body and they'd defend him. That's what cops do. And this cracks me up:
The Cambridge and area police unions voiced their support Friday for Sgt. James Crowley and called for an apology from President Obama for saying officers "acted stupidly" for arresting black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home.Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post..."His remarks were obviously misdirected but made it worse yet by suggesting somehow this case should remind us of a history of racial abuse by law enforcement," Dennis O'Connor, president of the Cambridge Police Superior Officers Association, said at a news conference.
Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on July 25, 2009 (boomark / email).
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