Sergeant James Crowley wasted government money when he arrested Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. -- there was no crime. Crowley "got" his man -- but at what cost?
Did Gates raise his cane in a threatening manner? No. Did Gates punch Crowley? No! Did Gates throw a book? NO! There is no crime described in Crowley's official version. That is why the charges had to be dropped.
Crowley says explicitly that he arrested Gates for yelling. Guess what? Yelling is not a crime. Yelling does not meet the definition of disorderly conduct in Massachusetts. If Gates had of confessed to a crime or threatened to commit a crime, there would have been cause for an arrest. But nothing that Crowley has attributed to Gates amounts to disorderly conduct.
Ya have a Constitutional right to engage in what Crowley refers to as "continued tumultuous behavior." Ya can call a cop fat, ugly and stupid -- he is paid to have the good judgment and ignore that, not act "stupidly."
And how were the good people of Cambridge protected and served by one of their finest being "downtown" instead of on the mean streets? Conseratives, if ya can get beyond your prefernce for the white man, ya will recognize this case for what it is -- wasteful government spending.
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