Media ignoring prior claims of Harvard police racism

[babsbunny]

http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/07/media-ignoring-prior-claims-of-harvard-police-racism/

The corporate media, inflamed by President Obama's assessment that Harvard police "acted stupidly" when arresting black historian Robert Louis Gates, Jr., has seemingly forgotten recent history.

Just run a Google News search for "S. Allen Counter". There is, as far as I can tell, only one publication with a memory long enough to bring up his case with regards to the controversy at hand.

Mr. Counter, notes College News, is a black professor of neuroscience at Harvard. He was confronted by university police in 2004 while walking to his office, reportedly because they suspected this black member of faculty was a burglar.

Sound familiar?

[virgogal]

1. This is about the University police,not the Cambridge PD.

Apples and oranges.

[Swede]

2. And it was also a different black guy.

WTF?

[MercutioATC]

3. So an incident involving the Harvard PD is an indictment of the Cambridge PD?

M'kay...

[maglatinavi]

5. hpd v cpd

it is the reign of sophism!!!

[maglatinavi]

4. apples and ...

same crap ...

[Eric68601]

6. Yeah, well check out THIS conspiracy

One of the loons on my local message board posted this.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/03/08/obama_paid_late_parking_tickets

"Obama paid late parking tickets
Racked up penalties while at Harvard

By David Abel, Globe Staff | March 8, 2007

Barack Obama is no longer a scofflaw, at least in Cambridge and Somerville.

Two weeks before the US senator from Illinois launched his presidential campaign, he paid parking tickets he received while attending Harvard Law School, officials said yesterday.

Obama received 17 parking tickets in Cambridge between 1988 and 1991, according to the city's Traffic, Parking & Transportation Department.

Of those tickets, he paid only two while he was a student and paid them late, said Susan Clippinger, the office's director.

In January, about when the Globe began asking local officials about Obama's time at Harvard, including any violations of local laws, someone representing the senator called the parking office to inquire about the decades-old tickets.

On Jan. 26, the remaining $375 in fines and fees were paid by credit card using the city's website, Clippinger said. She said she didn't know who paid them."

So let me get this straight... Obama holds a grudge against the police because of $5 parking tickets back in the late 80's?

Ahh Christ, getting a little desperate there wouldn't ya say? :eyes: