The policeman was answering a 911 emergency. When you are a cop and you answer a 911 emergency and you have to see what is going on and you have to make sure you don’t get dead for doing your job, and you have to know that the other people in the house aren’t holding a gun to the homeowner’s head, what do you do that is different from what this police officer did? Think, David. Why do you always let your dumb hang out?

“Choose your side. Either you are a defender of the constitution, or you’re willing to fellate the first person that comes at you with a badge. I’d say from what you’ve written that the latter is true, but there’s still time to stand for the principles that are espoused on this website. We all know that they’re written by insincere hacks. The only question is if they’re also read by the same kind of people.”

How wrong you are. You cannot yell “Fire” in a crowded building when there is not a fire without being arrested. Free speech also requires responsible use thereof. There are laws against certain types of speech, sexual harassment, for one comes to mind. I also wouldn’t advise saying “bomb” while in an airport or plane either.

Verbal Assault and Assault:

At Common Law, an intentional act by one person that creates an apprehension in another of an imminent harmful or offensive contact.

An assault is carried out by a threat of bodily harm coupled with an apparent, present ability to cause the harm. It is both a crime and a tort and, therefore, may result in either criminal or civil liability. Generally, the common law definition is the same in criminal and Tort Law. There is, however, an additional Criminal Law category of assault consisting of an attempted but unsuccessful Battery.

Statutory definitions of assault in the various jurisdictions throughout the United States are not substantially different from the common-law definition.

Also Moho, there is no reason for Gates’ behavior. Zero, zip, zilch. A rational person (could he possibly have been drunk?) would provide ID, cooperate with the officer while they check the house, then thanked them when they left a few minutes later. This would have never made the news.

A police officer has to be ready for several scenarios, they like going home to whatever it is they go home to at the end of their shift, not to the hospital or morgue.

1) The person breaking and entering poses as the resident.
2) The resident is being coerced into getting the police to leave by the home invader.
3) See #2 plus an accomplice may be waiting in ambush.

Being unprepared for any of these can get a police officer wounded or killed. Being a jackass doesn’t make things easier for them when they are doing their jobs.

Y’all are guilty of pre-1776 thinking.

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/20219730/detail.html

“Justin Barrett, 36, admitted using the term “jungle monkey” in writing about the arrest of the Harvard professor by a Cambridge police sergeant.

“It was a poor choice of words. I did not mean to offend anyone,” Barrett told NewsCenter 5′s Cheryl Fiandaca.”

I think this dichotomy perfectly reflects the comments I’ve been reading here: why am I being persecuted for making racist statements? I’m not racist!

It goes on:

In the e-mail, Barrett writes, “(Gates’) first priority should be to get off the phone and comply with police, for if I was the officer he verbally assaulted like a … jungle monkey, I would have sprayed him in the face with OC deserving of his belligerent non-compliance….”The words were being used to characterize behavior not describe anyone,” said Barrett. “It was a poor choice of words. I didn’t mean it in a racist way. I treat everyone with dignity and respect.”

And this last part should be the headline for whatever story you idiots end up writing about this:

Barrett has been a Boston police officer for two years and received extensive training in racial profiling prevention while in the academy.

“People go through these courses and they pass them and you don’t know what they are going to do in a situation,” said Menino.

Barrett and his attorney said they will fight the charges brought both by the police department and the National Guard.

“People are making it about race. It is not about race,” Barrett claimed.

Of course its not! Because its only about race when white people want it to be. Otherwise, its just letting off a little steam, or just getting your due respect. Again, just because every once in a while situations like this are inevitably made public, it doesn’t indicate in any way that they are occuring with any kind of frequency. Obviously, Barrett’s just a bad apple, and all of the people he sent the email too, probably deleted it and reported it to their supervisors.

Idiots.

The bottom line-NO ONE mouths off to a cop, be you black, white, green or other. Or are you sayding that we don’t need the police?

So you’re saying we need police to make sure that no one mouths off at police. Brilliant.

The mayor told WCVB-TV that Barrett was trained in racial profiling prevention and had shown no signs of racial discrimination in the past.

I wonder if Crowley was the one who trained him.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gp4uPuzLuooqpvDagi4_RloFRs0gD99ODLNG0

Boston cop, NYC aide in trouble over Gates remarks

By JEANNIE NUSS (AP) – 42 minutes ago

BOSTON — A Boston police officer was suspended Wednesday for allegedly using a racial slur to describe black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and a New York City government aide resigned after posting Facebook comments about the scholar’s controversial arrest.

Boston police put two-year officer Justin Barrett on administrative leave pending a termination hearing. Barrett, 36, did not immediately return calls for comment.

Barrett’s union, the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association, said they condemn and “strongly denounce these statements as being offensive and hurtful.”

But the union added that investigators should consider all the facts and not rush to a conclusion.

Police said Barrett does not have previous violations with the department.

A person with knowledge of the case, speaking on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak publicly about it, said Barrett, a member of the National Guard, used the racial slur in messages to guardsmen and to The Boston Globe.

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino told WCVB-TV the city needs “to rid the department of that cancer.”

The bottom line-NO ONE mouths off to a cop, be you black, white, green or other. Or are you sayding that we don’t need the police?

What are you saying dude?