He said, she said, they said…
The 911 call to the Cambridge, MA Police makes it clear that the caller was acting at the request of someone else, and she said nothing at all about race until she was asked by the police dispatcher. It sounds as though the dispatcher said, “Are they White, Black or Hispanic?” Listen starting at 2:00 into the audio clip.
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This gives her a lot of credibility when she says that she did not speak with Sergeant Crowley at the scene, contrary to his filed report.
And the recording of Crowley’s radio calls does nothing to substantiate his claim that Professor Gates was loud and abusive.
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The big loser in all of this is Obama. He’s lost the backing of cops nationwide, and he’s handed the Right the ammo they needed to question who Sonia Sotomayor will empathize with once she’s seated on the Supreme Court.
4 comments July 27th, 2009