"My Daddy the Jailbird" Elizabeth Gates interviews her dad, Henry Louis Gates for Daily Beast...

[zonkers]

Daddy, how did it feel to read in the police report that although you had been cooperative with Sgt. Crowley, while he was standing uninvited in your home, your behavior had been reduced to “loud and tumultuous” after asking to see to his badge? Were you surprised at the inaccuracy of the police report?

Well, the police report was an act of pure fiction. One designed to protect him, Sgt. Crowley, from unethical behavior. I was astonished at the audacity of the lies in the police report, and almost the whole thing from start to finish was just pure fabrication. So yes, I felt violated all over again.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-22/my-daddy-the-jailbird/?cid=hp:mostpopular1


I do not this story is going to die for a long time.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. And the policeman

can't say a word.

Exploiting this isn't a good idea....................

[Cha]

4. The "policeman" had been whining all over the

media all morning long.

Good for Gates speaking out on what he thought was injustice by the officer.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

6. Really?

Mea culpa, then. I haven't seen him anywhere.

Where was he?

[MADem]

7. CBS and the cables have been shopping around this interview

http://wbztv.com/local/obama.comment.cambridge.2.1097782.html

See the links within the story.

[smokey nj]

8. Here's a link that mentions he also discussed the case on a radio program.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=6131150#6131419

[MADem]

11. Yep. Both links are inside that story.

Gates was "acting irrational" and as for Obama he "didn't vote for him."

[smokey nj]

13. I didn't click on your link but I remembered seeing the radio discussed here

here. When I found the link, I saw that you'd posted the above and I figured I'd piggy back. Sorry if there's any redundancy.

[MADem]

15. No prob. Sometimes redundancy is a good thing! nt

[Tangerine LaBamba]

16. Thanks again for that -

I listened and watched.

There are a lot of jurisdictions - here, in Alexandria, VA, as blue a place as can be - where officers are routinely not allowed to speak to the media whenever they're involved in any kind of dispute with the public.

That always struck me as manifestly unfair.

I'm glad Cambridge either has a stronger union or a better sense of fairness.

Thanks again..............

[Tangerine LaBamba]

10. Good show!

Thanks!

[seabeyond]

18. i beg your pardon... they have been on tv all day. wtf. n/t

[virgogal]

2. Not here anyway====the beat goes on.

[AlexinVA]

3. That interview was from a few days ago...

It will die down now w/Obama reaching out to both Crowley and Gates.

[zonkers]

5. Ah, did not realize interview was that old. In any case, I just love smart daughters and dads who

are buds the way they seem to be. Trip to China. She's a blogger. Academic life is a nice life if you can get it.

[ShamelessHussy]

9. I hope it doesn't die down.

Arresting a homeowner for what? NOTHING.

That is a serious problem and needs to be addressed. I hope the professor sue the pants off the police department.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

12. He's not a "homeowner" -

he's a tenant. Harvard owns the house.

Sanctity remains...................

[ShamelessHussy]

14. Lawful Occupant

doesn't change the fact that it was wrong.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

17. Lawful occupant -

which is why I wrote what I did about "sanctity"................