Reply #100: Yes they did have jurisdiction, they were called by CROWLEY [View All]

[Bluerthanblue]

and they had arrived- read the police report. That is where I got the info that Crowley was out of Gates' house.

Read it yourself-

http://www.scribd.com/doc/17581906/CPDIncidentReport9005127

Crowley was descending the stairs- and when you read this, bear in mind that Off. Crowley KNOWS he has to make his actions appear as good as possible, and Gates' as BAD as possible- That's reality.

I'm not saying that Prof. Gates didn't lose his cool and didn't over-react. He wasn't the person performing "his job" - he was a civilian, who was having an altercation with a police officer in his own residence, after returning home from a trip.

There ARE people who know what Gates was yelling- and even if the other Officers agree that Gates was causing a disturbance, there are those who have spoken out saying the "both parties" didn't handle it as they should have.

Gates wouldn't have any chance of prevailing in a case against Crowley if Crowley hadn't escalated things HIMSELF- by hand-cuffing and arresting a tired, distraught man, on his own property, because he had the audacity to commit "Contempt of Cop".
If calling someone a 'racist' is so offensive to Sgt.Crowley, maybe he needs to do some more work before he goes around 'training' fellow officers about "Racial Profiling"-

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