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Originally Posted by Helix
Looks to me like Obama racially profiled the Caucasian officer.
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Originally Posted by JP-pornshooter
he did say before commenting that his opinion would be biased and the words he used were:
...the policeofficer overreacted, cooler heads should have prevailed"
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That was his first attempt to backtrack - after stating that the police "acted stupidly".
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Originally Posted by JP-pornshooter
if a policeofficer came into my house and started to harass me, i would certainly also call him names and show him the fucking door
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I don't get this...
You do understand that the police were CALLED to that residence by a neighbor who witnessed what she thought was a break-in to her neighbor's home. She saw to two men, with backpacks, and one of them pushing his shoulder into the door - in what appeared to her to be an attempt to break in.
The cop in question takes the call, shows up, the 911 caller meets him out front and relays what she say to him, he goes up to the door, spots someone inside, and asks him to step outside so that he can talk to him. Immediate Gates starts getting belligerent and going off on him.
So what is the cop supposed to do?? If that's your house, and your neighbor thought they saw someone breaking in - the cops show up - the bad guys answer the door and tell the cop to fuck off - you just want the cop to say "OK, sorry to have bothered you", leave and then allow them to steal your stuff and rape your cat???
Seriously??!!
Consider another scenario - it IS your house, but some dirtbag is standing in the next room with a gun to your kid's head warning you not to tip the cops off... If you're acting irrational the cops have no choice to assume that something's up and they're going to press the matter to investigate further. You'd rather they just blow you off and leave you and your kid in there w/ the badguy??
Bottom line, this could have been a 5 minute false alarm. They get them all the time. Show the cops your ID, let him know that you're the resident and that all is OK. End of Story. Again - the cops didn't instigate this - it was a 911 call from a neighbor.
Read the report.
Yeah there are plenty of asshole cops - but there are a lot more decent cops - and they've got a pretty shitty job when you stop and think about it. They never know if the next person they run into is going to be the last person they see or not. When every call you get could be your last you HAVE TO be cautious of everyone and everything until you're certain you understand what's really going on. (And even then,
too many have gotten lax and wound up dead).
Sorry for the rant, but come on - this Obama FuckFest is getting really old. You want to put him up on such a high pedestal and claim he's saving the world - at least be big enough to call him out when he TOTALLY blows a call like this one!
