Just Blame Fred

If I was angry before, you have no idea how much now.

Just looked at today’s issue of the Boston Herald (28-July-2009). This paper seems like a rag, but it did a good story on the Gates affair, including publishing the transcripts of the 911 call.

As the aid told Londo in Babylon 5 before Londo went on a rage and broke everything in his room after he found out he’d been “played like a fiddle”, The Details are Everything.

After reading the transcripts myself, it is clear that:

1. Crowley lied about being told that “it was 2 Black men with backpacks”. The 911 tapes revealed that he was told that there were 2 men, race unknown, maybe one was a “Hispanic”, and there were suitcases. Not backpacks, but suitcases!
2. Whalen, the woman who made the 911 call, was asked about the “race” of the 2 men, but said she did not know.
3. Crowley report back to HQ that he had the ID of “Henry Louis Gates”, which presumably would have his address on it!
4. Crowley claim that Gates screamed and became “belligerent”, but there was no evidence of this in the tapes. Just soft-spoken voices.
5. Whalen has come forward and openly contradicted Sgt. Crowley’s claim of “2 Black men”. She wants to clear her name in this highly charged affair.

What conclusions can we draw from this?

It is clear that Sgt. Crowley is a big fat liar, as are many police. As they were in my case similar to the Gates Incident 10 years ago. Whalen had no motivaion to lie. She was just accurately reporting what she saw, and not one whit more.

Crowley obviously knew that Gates lived at that home when he arrested him. Crowley obviously knew about the suitcases, as he was told that by the dispatcher. Crowley had every reason to believe and know that Gates just got back from a trip.

The facts, to a reasonable person, would lead that person to conclude that Gates was not a criminal, but simply got locked out of his house has he claimed. The reasonable person would see no need to put this distinguished professor in handcuffs.

But we are talking police here, so toss all reason and logic out of the window. Crowley obviously wanted to assert his “authority” over this professor who had done no wrong, and had already proven his identity and the fact that that was his house. Besides, a robber would not want to hang about for long and most likely would have been gone by the time the cops arrived.”I don’t care what “good record” Crowley had before this incident. He indeed did “act stupidly” as the President proclaimed, as did the Nashua Police Anthony Pivero and Eric Nordengren did in my P. Uno case 10 years ago.

Was Crowley’s “stupid actions” motived by race? Or just a general power trip cops typically like weilding on everyone? Who knows? Does it matter, really?

I therefore make a general call to all who have been wronged by rogue cops to take action. Do  NOT let these rogue cops get away with trampling our rights. Do not let these rogue cops get away with their power trips at our expense. Sue them. Go to the media. Video them and immediately upload the videos to youtube. TAKE EVERY LEGAL ACTION you can to put these rogue cops back in their place!

They like saying that “Freedom is Never Free”. Well, let’s get to the freedom first.

911 and Dispacher Audio can be heard here. But here’s the transcripts of the exerpts as published in The Boston Hearld.