you many have herd about the professer and the cop and how obama put his foot in his mouth and now he wants the 2 hover to the white house for a drink to talk things over but should the cop even go for this "teaching moment" i woudn't they are just going to gang up on the cop because they are friends
I don't know much about the actual thing though. Just that some police officers arrested someone that graduated Harvard, and Obama said that was stupid.
The full story for anyone who hasn't heard of it - a prominent professor at Harvard University returned from a trip to China to find his front door jammed; he went around back & used his key to open the door, then he and his driver tried to open the front door from the inside; failed, and then successfully managed to force it open from the outside.
A police officer received a report of a possible break in, investigated - there was a bit of an altercation of words & he was arrested for "loud and tumultuous behavior in a public space".
Both sides are telling different stories about how it went down. If the professor is telling the truth, then the cop is just lying to cover his own ass, and if the officer is telling the truth, the professor is lying to save face. The whole thing is a joke without a punchline.
Well-said, HiddenDistance. As a cop, he does have the right to restrian someone if he deems it necessary, but if there was no reason, then the cop is at fault. If the professor did indeed show "loud and tumultuous behavior," then the cop had the right. But either way, this incident has gotten way too much coverage.
The cop followed proper procedure. I'm on his side. And Obama did something that will go down in history for no less than a year. Wait, what am I saying, the media will completely drown it out.
Obama needs to keep his nose out of everything that doesn't involve national security. And he didn't even know about the incident in the first place. If you ask me, he acted stupider than he said the cop did.
And last but not least, the race baiters (Who are the only reason racism is still alive in America). Saying this is a race issue. Well I've got something to tell them: SHUT UP. Just shut up. That's exactly what they need to do. If I called a mexican who rammed me into a wall a (Racist expletive) I would be likely to end up forking out 10+ million dollars to him when it was his own fault to begin with.
And last but not least, the race baiters (Who are the only reason racism is still alive in America). Saying this is a race issue. Well I've got something to tell them: SHUT UP. Just shut up.
Agreed. I don't see how it makes a difference whether the guy was black, white, or orange for that matter. Just focus on what happened, not the color of his skin. Like you said, they're the only reason there is still racism in America.
I think the cop was wrong there is no law against yelling at a cop.
But when a cop gets a call about a possible burglery and then gets yelled at by the "suspect", he doesn't have much to work with. I'm not saying this is how it played out (I wasn't there), only that if that happened, the professor is at fault.
