Word: gateses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
UPDATED 4:22 P.M. Police tapes from the July 16 arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. shed little light on the dynamics of the now nationally publicized confrontation, but confirm that the caller did not cite the race of the two men she saw breaking into Gates' home...
In the police radio transmissions from the confrontation, Sgt. James Crowley is heard telling police dispatchers that the man in the house, whom he identified as Gates, is uncooperative. Crowley, whose voice seems steady and measured in the tape, also told police to "keep the cars coming." Another individual can...
In classically phony police talk, Crowley refers to "[Gates'] continued tumultuous behavior." When cops write that way, you know they have nothing. What is tumultuous behavior? Here's what it isn't: brandishing a knife in a threatening manner, punching and kicking, clenching a fist in a threatening manner, throwing...
We have an uncomfortable choice with Sergeant Crowley. Either he didn't know what disorderly conduct is or he decided to show Gates who's boss the only way he knew how - by whipping out his handcuffs and abusing his power to arrest. Police make the latter choice in this...
We all know it happens. That's why so much of the commentary about this case is obsessed with exactly who said what to whom in the Gates home that day. Most white, and some black, TV talking heads obviously believe that Gates was stupid if he actually exercised his...