I actually saw the story about Skip Gates and his run in with Cambridge cops the day after it happened on July 16th in the corner of some small print headlines in the Washington Post, I think. I decided at the time that it wasn’t important enough for me to address. It was a dog-bites-man story. Black man gets arrested by a cop and cries “I din’t do nuthin'”. I see it every Saturday night on ‘Cops’. <\/p>\n
I get called a ‘racist’ at least once a week here in DC for doing abominable things like walking down the right side of the sidewalk, or walking up the escalator at the subway station. So I’m pretty used to it.<\/p>\n
The President, unsurprisingly, calls the cops stupid for arresting a 58-year-old man who won’t act his age. More than a week after the arrest. Not examining the facts – just based purely on the superficial appearance of the incident. Black man arrested by white cop – cops stupid.<\/p>\n
So the details get published on the front page of every paper, white cop taught other cops how to avoid racial profile<\/a>. Black cop on the scene concurs<\/a> with white cop. The arrest report is released on Smoking Gun<\/a>. Ooops.<\/p>\n Press Secretary Gibbs says the media is prolonging the issue<\/a>. Obama can’t quite bring himself to apologize to the Cambridge cop<\/a>. Obama says Sergeant Crowley is an outstanding officer<\/a> and a good man.<\/p>\n Darleen at Protein Wisdom<\/a> writes that Gates is calling Sgt. Crowley a liar on Friday afternoon. And today, the Washington Post<\/a> says that gates claims it’s time to move on;<\/p>\n It was a marked change in tone for Gates, who in the days following his arrest gathered up his legal team and said he was contemplating a lawsuit. He even vowed to make a documentary on his arrest to tie into a larger project about racial profiling.<\/p>\n In an e-mail to the Boston Globe late Friday, he said: “It is time for all of us to move on, and to assess what we can learn from this experience.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n Allahpundit<\/a> writes that Gates even offered to have a beer with the police sergeant.<\/p>\n Yeah, Gates drove this whole incident from a tiny article in a dark corner of the Washington Post to a Presidential press conference. And now it’s time to move on? Probably because Gates looks like a race-baiting, pimping jerk the more information comes out. <\/p>\n I even watched Juan Williams criticize Gates on Fox News Sunday today. You know you’re wrong when Juan Williams goes after you and you’re black. The Washington Times<\/a> reports;<\/p>\n After accepting the invitation [to the White House], the professor told the Boston Globe:<\/p>\n “My entire academic career had been based on improving race relations, not exacerbating them. I am hopeful that my experience will lead to greater sensitivity to issues of racial profiling in the criminal justice system. If so, then this will be a blessing for our society. It is time for all of us to move on, and to assess what we can learn from this experience.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Yeah, talking about a cop’s mother is a well-known and accepted way to improve race-relations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"