Sergeant Who Arrested Black Professor Living Under Bus

I wanted to interview Sgt. James Crowley, the White police officer in Cambridge who gained national notoriety for arresting the world famous Black Harvard professor, Henry Louis Gates, for disorderly conduct.

"Sgt. Crowley can't talk right now," a police spokesman told me. "He's under the bus."

"He was thrown under the bus?" I asked.

"Yeah, the media threw him under first, but he started to crawl out after a couple days."

"Then what happened?"

"The Cambridge chief of police threw him under the bus," the spokesman said. "He told the county prosecutor to drop the charges against Professor Gates, and the prosecutor did."

"Did the Chief say Gates wasn't guilty?"

"No, he just wanted it to go away, so he threw Crowley under the bus."

"Is that why he's still under it?"

"Nope. He was wiggling out one more time, but then President Obama was asked about the case during his news conference."

"What did the President say?"

"He admitted he didn't have all the facts, but he said Professor Gates was his friend and the Cambridge police acted stupidly."

"So the President also threw Crowley under the bus?"

"Big time. And when the President throws you under the bus, you might as well make it your  home."

Comments

[Sophia Fire]

I think Mr Gates was holding on to so much racial baggage that he overacted, threw the race card into the mix, and became belligerent. If he had stayed calm, explained that his front door was just jammed, showed his ID, the cop would've left satisfied that all well.

As for Obama, the fact that he thought this was an issue worthy of his intervention demonstrates he still ought to be just a community activist, not the President of the United States!