Just unbelievable. But I'm very glad this stuff is coming out into the open.The fallout from the Henry Louis Gates Jr. arrest continues: the Boston Police Department has suspended an officer named Justin Barrett for using a racial slur in reference to the Harvard professor in an email, the AP reports.
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The AP omits the phrase Barrett used from its article, but the Boston Globe reports that the phrase was "jungle monkey," and that the officer used it while reacting to the media coverage of the arrest.
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I don't understand why people are criticizing Obama so harshly for his honest response. I agree that the police "acted studpidly" in arresting a man who showed proof that he owned the house and HANDCUFFED HIM.
ReplyDeleteWho would not be angry over such an injustice?
annie c
Yes, Annie, I agree.
ReplyDeleteI think, though, it's because of the truly racist wingnuts out there spreading the belief that Obama hates white people. So the criticism has to do with the appearance that Obama was "siding" with Gates becuase they're both black.
Anyway, that's all I can figure. It's preposterous, of course.