Union Predicts Obama Will Regret Remarks

[masuki bance]

The lawyer for the police union that represents Cambridge Sergeant James M. Crowley today predicted that President Obama will regret that he accused department officers of "acting stupidly" when they handcuffed Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. even after he showed proof that he lived in his house.

"He conceded that he didn't have all the facts, and indeed he didn't," Alan J. McDonald, the lawyer for the Cambridge Police Superior Officers Association, said of the president. "I suspect that when the full picture comes out, he will regret the remarks he made."

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McDonald, the lawyer for the 50-member police union, says he knows Crowley personally and considers him a topnotch officer who behaved appropriately in the Gates arrest.

He said he and members of the union "were disappointed" in Obama's remarks. "I think perhaps the president might have second thoughts about shooting from the hip."

The White House today, meanwhile, backed away slightly from President Obama's remark.

Spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters traveling on Air Force One that Obama did not regret the remark during his primetime news conference Wednesday night, but wanted to clarify that he was not calling the arresting officer stupid.

Obama felt "cooler heads on all sides should have prevailed" once the officer realized Gates was in his own home, Gibbs said, according to the Associated Press.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/07/crowleys_union.html

[BlooInBloo]

1. Thinly veiled threat, noted.

[CakeGrrl]

2. A little obsessed with this, aren't you? n/t

[Jennicut]

18. Marking: 4th post started by masuki bance on this subject

Just letting everyone know. ;)

[SemiCharmedQuark]

3. Really, the lawyer for the guy said that? I'm shocked.

It was much more likely he was going to say "Gee, Obama was right. My client acted like a total asshole. Sorry about that."

[Occam Bandage]

4. Hey, a cop telling a black guy he'll regret fucking with them,

in response to the black guy politely saying that the cops were overreacting regarding their treatment of a black guy. Well, this is certainly new and different.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

6. Obama was creating a disturbance!

[vaberella]

8. He needs to be reported to the FBI---that's the President---not just a regular Black man.

:rofl: "regular Black man" oy...

[vaberella]

5. You just don't take a break. Ugh. n/t

[graywarrior]

7. Surprise surprise.

[rucky]

9. I guess the President doesn't know his place, either.

right, Crowley?

arrogant fucks.

[jefferson_dem]

10. Ugh...

You are going on and on about this nonsense as bad as they are in freeperville.

Why? Hmmm...

[fascisthunter]

11. You better wish this isn't taken as a threat

[KansDem]

12. Crap, folks! Just get over it!

These "media" types are just too f***king much!

I haven't really been following this story but from what I've read so far, I'm glad I haven't!

[Thrill]

13. Why would he regret? You arrested an old ass man in his own house

claiming he broke into it. Get a fucking clue. You did act stupidly.

[FrenchieCat]

14. Someone, please call the police!

Oh...never mind. The President didn't break any laws with his comment. Bummer!

[WRPendleton]

15. Yea sure, Obama will regret it...

Nevermind that the police apparently took the man into arrest him and then dropped charges. Is there any regret in that or just business as usual? Isn't shooting from the hip when you bring someone in on some retarded charge which you then drop? I think I agree with Obama, seems like there was plenty of stupid going around but surely nobody needed to be arrested.

[nosmokes]

16. The fact is racist thugs are going outta style.

That may be a bitter pill for the pointy headed dildoes to swallow and no doubt they'll be trying their best to spit it out, but the writing is on the wall. A new age is dawning, slowly and painfully, but we are changing, and these mouth breathing knuckle dragging dimwits aren't going to be tolerated any longer. Starting now.

[brentspeak]

17. It's not a stretch to say that Gates shouldn't have been arrested, though

Going ballistic on an officer and -- perhaps unfairly -- calling the officer a racist doesn't justify an arrest, especially when the "disorderly conduct" is taking place within that person's house. I'm not a police-basher, but there's no denying that if you get angry with an officer, many times they will retaliate against you. I can attest to that, speaking as a white guy who once got two extra tickets immediately after complaining about receiving a "broken headlight" ticket (I told the officer I didn't know one of my headlights was out, and got annoyed when he then issued a ticket rather than just giving me a warning and telling me to get it fixed as soon as possible).

[Political Tiger]

19. Damn, this is really important to you, isn't it?

Could you be anymore obvious?