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."
