Harvard professor arrested for being black

Police usually don't get in trouble for anything bro... When law enforcement investigates law enforcement, what do u think the outcome will be? Right?

yeah, so wtf does this incident have to do with the cop in boston? we all know there are asshole cops out there. but until there's evidence that this cop acted inappropriately or was racially motivated then the only trash-talkin "joker" was Gates.

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Originally Posted by beatmaker

Oh Yeah, for all you jokers running around this thread talking about how this guy was some officer in charge of diversity and racial profiling training, please take note.

In one of the most agregious cases on policy brutality in the history of the NYPD, Haitian immigrant Abner Louima was sodomized with a toilet plunger in his holding cell inside of an actual NYPD precinct. His screams of agony where ignored by the officers in the vicinity. The officer who acosted him, Justin Volpe was indicted by a grand jury and later convicted. It's one of the rare cases of NYPD abuse, in which justice was served. Only because there is no logical justification for sticking a plunger up a man's rectum, especially while he's already in custody. Even Rudy Guiliani couldn't explain that bullshyt away. Anyway, Justin Volpe, a White male of Italian origin, was engaged at the time of incident, to his longtime girlfriend who was a civilian employee of the NYPD. Guess what race she was? Black and dark-skinned at that. So this notion that he was somehow impervious to a burst of racism, due to his departmental title is naive. However, I don't think this was a case of overt police racism, just an officer with a bruised ego on some payback bullshyt.

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Originally Posted by beatmaker

I think police officers seem to allow their ego to get in the way, when it comes to someone questioning their authority.

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and when big ego police officer meets another big ego professor , who lets his ego get in the way when his professor status is in question , this is what we get .

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Originally Posted by Legend

Someone mentioned racism is still going on strong ,yup i agree and it can come from both sides and is wrong from whoever is spewing it.

Akron police investigate teen mob attack on family

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Out of nowhere, the six were attacked by dozens of teenage boys, who shouted ''This is our world'' and ''This is a black world'' as they confronted Marshall and his family.

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http://www.ohio.com/news/50172282.html


The media didn't pick up on this story at all, i wonder why.

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Indeed, there really is a double standards to this kind of stuff.One guy gets arrested for basically pissing off a cop and yells racism and its all over the news media but when a family is terrorized by real racist its ignored by the media and people in general do not really care.Racism can come from anyone and is equally just as bad.

its just not fun to talk about unless its white male being racist towards anyone that's black. Any other forms of racism is not worth the discussion. I know I know, just kidding

Gates and Crowley are related: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=8195564&page=1

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Originally Posted by thx1138

Gates and Crowley are related: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=8195564&page=1

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Guy may be a Harvard professor, but he doesn't seem all that bright to me.

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When the genealogist tells him he does indeed have Irish links, Gates says, "I find this oddly moving. It is astonishing," he says, "that I have a kinship with someone (Niall of the Nine Hostages) dating back to the fourth century A.D."

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It seems pretty obvious to me that we all have a kinship with someone dating back to the fourth century. Otherwise, yanno, we pretty much wouldn't be here, would we? Not so "astonishing."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090729/...scholar_caller

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Originally Posted by thx1138

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090729/ap_on_re_us/us_harvard_scholar_caller

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I was just about to post that.

I guess I need to recant portions of my earlier posts about the cop going there looking for two black male suspects, judging by that article the cops responding were not being told (at least by the 911 caller) to look for a black male(s).

I'm afraid that the truth is that he was arrested for being an asshole (which happens more than anyone wants to admit).