Cop who arrested black scholar is profiling expert

[masuki bance]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The white police sergeant criticized by President Barack Obama for arresting black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his Massachusetts home is a police academy expert on racial profiling.

Cambridge Sgt. James Crowley has taught a class on racial profiling for five years at the Lowell Police Academy after being hand-picked for the job by former police Commissioner Ronny Watson, who is black, said Academy Director Thomas Fleming.

"I have nothing but the highest respect for him as a police officer. He is very professional and he is a good role model for the young recruits in the police academy," Fleming told The Associated Press on Thursday.

The course, called "Racial Profiling," teaches about different cultures that officers could encounter in their community "and how you don't want to single people out because of their ethnic background or the culture they come from," Fleming said.

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Police supporters charge that Gates, director of Harvard's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, was responsible for his own arrest by overreacting.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090723/ap_on_re_us/us_harvard_scholar_disorderly

[BlooInBloo]

1. Interesting way of phrasing it.

[izquierdista]

2. "Experts"

Why yes, I believe the Nazis had "experts" that could tell just from looking at someone if they had Jewish blood in their family.

[YOY]

3. Guess not.

n.t.

[Raineyb]

4. Lovely, the blind leading the visually challenged. n/t

[AngryAmish]

5. I think this qualifies as irony

[Jennicut]

8. Or stupidity as Obama said last night

[Political Tiger]

6. "The white police sergeant criticized by President Barack Obama"

WRONG! Obama did NOT criticize the "white police sergeant." He criticized the Cambridge police department.

[masuki bance]

7. He thinks the whole department acted "stupidly"? nt

[Brother Buzz]

13. members of the Cambridge police "acted stupidly"

I interpret that to read 'Some' not the whole department. :shrug:

[Political Tiger]

18. Why don't you ask Bill Cosby? n/t

[wowimthere]

9. and the excuses fly... this isn't about racial profiling so much as it is about Ego

Police officers do not want their authority questioned. Period!

[Solomon]

11. They're both involved obviously. I'm trying to imagine a

58 year old limping white Harvard professor ranting at this guy getting arrested.

I can't see it.

[rhett o rick]

17. If you don't show the proper contriteness you are apt to be arrested with the charges later dropped.

I agree with you. Most likely Mr. Gates wasn't happy with his treatment by the officers and let them know. They in turn weren't happy with his response and therefore arrested him. He should sue for false arrest.

[Blue_Roses]

10. you've made your point...

the cop is a saint:eyes:

[rhett o rick]

16. LOL. I got an entirely different point. He is an expert at racial profiling so that's what he did. n

[Aramchek]

12. And yet, he acted like a stupid ass

[uponit7771]

14. FACT NOT IN DISPUTE: Gates showed his ID and verified he lived in home and STILL got arrested!!

[rhett o rick]

15. Of course. He broke the "thou shalt not overreact", law. nm

[BluegrassDem]

19. Why did they pick somebody named Jim Crow to be a profiling expert?

Well it's Jim Crowley, but still, you just can't make this stuff up.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

20. Overreacting is worthy of arrest, eh?

[Cha]

21. Crowley's an expert at

being a dumb fuck.. do as he says not as he does.

[Vidar]

22. T wost of pseudo-science leading the way to renewed bigotry.