" and went home and got her book and drove back to his home and showed him how dangerous the drug is. I can not believe that none of the news media has caught this difference in stories. Look at the video tapes of this woman. If you listen to her closely, the is a repeater of the things other people are commenting on all the news shows. She is watching the news like us and she is repeating things that are said when asked of her.
I am a black police captain and I can tell all that this was not racially motivated. Once the police was called to a burglary in-progress they had to investigate thoroughly until it was determined that a crime did not occur. Now if Gates would not have presented his ID to the sergeant, he most likely could have been arrested for opposing or interfering with an investigation. But since he presented his ID, and it disclosed that the residence belonged to Gates, the appropriate thing to do was to walk away. If Gates was verbally abusive to the officer then he was wrong. I can only assume that while Gates was verbally abusive this in turn angered the officer. Once they walked outside on the porch and Gates continued his verbal assaults which probably drew attention from his neighbors, the officer saw an opportunity to make an arrest for Disorderly Conduct. In conclusion I agree with General Powell when he said that both could have handled the situation in a more professional manner. Gates should have displayed a professional demeanor being a Harvard Professor and the Sergeant should have acted professionally by walking away without charging Gates. Since two Sergeants were on scene both should have talked this situation over and appropriately determined that since Gates was on his own property this particular charge of Disorderly Conduct was not an appropriate charge. That is why the charge was dropped. This was nothing to do with race but a lot to do with disrespecting an officer while attempting to perform his duties and the officer overreacting by arresting Gates for Disorderly Conduct on his own property.
Big mouth Glen Beck and Rush L throw the racist thing out about President Obama when in fact they ought to look in the mirror of how racist they themselves are.They feed on wackos who believe them.
As far as Pro Gates and Sgt. Crowley.The Professor could have said I live here and I'm not coming out,period if he wanted to and the Sgt wouldn't have been able to do nothing.Had he then he would have been wrong.
One could say it's a he said he said.No one heard the Professor on tape so no one knows exactly what went down except there was 1 man against what,4 officers?

I thought I didnt hear her correctly at first. Because I thought she was in Florida. And you certainly cannot be in 2 places at once.
How is it that such a well known individual like Mr. Gates, is not known in his neighborhood, let alone, on the block where he lives.!
Such is not the case on the block where I live. Everyone knows more about their neighbors then their neighbors might think.
Please read the transcript or listen to the 911 call.
Mr. Elder, shame on you.........
I am a black man in Toronto, Canada 37, who drove 8 hours to DC in January and stood out in the cold at 4am with my 16 year old daughter and my 11 year old son to see history..the first black man being inaugurated as the President of the United States of America.
I find it very funny, that Col. Powell(who grew up and learned how to dance in order to get where he is and is still is not tired of dancing)and other black leaders are saying -Professor Gates should learn when people spit in his face and tell him that it's raining outside -he should believe them.
The reality is no one is saying the white police officer...should have to dance. I can't stand people like the black -i won't even say his name who was on your show tonight -saying Barack Obama was wrong and Professor Gates was wrong as the police officer was just doing his job. I was not there but history teaches us ALL -don't think just because you have black people in power everything has changed.
What the conspiracy theorists do is find a poster black person(s) to stand up and say "he is a great officer...he is not racist...he teaches race relations -WHO CARES. He clearly does not take the lessons he learns in the classroom and put them into practice on the street. These black people undermine the work that still has to be done. I bet if you ask that black man cop or the woman cop who was hugging him in tears-really(press conference last week)as a sign of solidarity how many times they have been to his house or vice versa..whats his wife's name..have they ever gone out for dinner together with their families....you will get a different story.
What I don't hear people saying is Professor Gates is a GROWN MAN...with all of his years behind and infront of him... clearly he knows how to conduct himself and have to proper conversation with all types of people at different stations of their life. The cop keeps saying "he provoked me...he just wouldn't stop"
Does anyone believe that the cop was being rude and condensing to Professor Gates..if Professor Gates had a long criminal record and just got out of prison -I would still not believe them -because the BLACK COPS ARE NOW STANDING UP FOR HIM..what were they going to say -HE IS A RACIST AND HE HATES BLACK PEOPLE -really?
I think the Doctor of Michael did what he's been paid for giving Michael sleep.Only thing was the doctor knew this time what work before didn't this time and Michael was in trouble.
I pity the children so much and hope that they are with people that love them and not use them for dollars.So beautiful all three are.
I often work with skilled police officers. In similar situations to Professor Gates, the officer determines Dr. Gates is the resident of the home. He says, "I am sorry for bothering you." The officer then leaves. It is not at all unusual for a person to become upset when the police show up at the door. A professional does his job without creating another problem.
just check Mr. Jackson's complete phone log to see who all have had conversations with him. At the same time, check all the video footages of Mr. jackson's whereabouts, as well as, the footages of the paparazzies.
Deepak is getting on my nerves. He is not one of his true friends. And Remember Michael said his true friends are not known to the world. He is only trying to gain instant celebrity status, like the rest of Michael's so call friends are. Deepak is no better than the rest of them.
I think Michael Jackson realized that his show was going to be a big flop. The massive debts he accrued, his poor health, and his history of misery from his personal life and career was too overbearing for him to live with. I feel that it could be safely assumed he couldn't live with the the pains in his life and committed suicide.
Bottom line here. Was the law followed according to the Constitution? You know. the Constitution was also written to protect individual rights. Judge Brown gave the interpretation of the law. Most of laws in this country that were not written or voted on by black men but a black judge told us how it should have been adminstered. If the police had followed the law and respected individual rights, we wouldn't be having this conversation. I appreciate the job the police do however, these people we hired as police officers need to attend people skills courses and understand the they are not above the law and are held to a higher standard. Larry Elder is only saying what a lot of non-whites would like to hear.  Maybe his stock in main stream america will go up and he can sell a book.. Attacking Obama shows Larry Elder ignorance. If I didn't know better, I'd think Larry Elder is a token for the republican party like Mr Steele. It's men lik this that set minorities back 50 years. As a educated black man, my personal opinion Larry Elder shouldn't even be consider a ctizen. He makes me ashame. I think Dr King, John Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, and Thomas Jefferson all would be ashame of these men.
Where would black americans be without the crutch of racism. How long will they play the victim?  Gates acted like a spoiled child. 
Racial Profiling still exist. I will give you a example that happen over the week-in. I was in Kennawick Wa. for the annual Hydro Boast races, and I am a 57 year old black man. To set this up my friend also black have invited me and my family to see the race, so we jump into her son big black cadillac, car and went to the river to see the show, As we were driving we pass a Kennewick police that was comming out of the park. This police was not behind us but at a intersection. Went we saw the police car we joke he will probably stop us, Well he did. and to do this he had to catch up with us first and then get in behind us. He ran the plates, and stop us telling the drive my friend that her plates had expired. This was her son car so she did not know if he was right or not. The officer knew because if he ran the plates which he did it would have came back as registered, and fully covered by insurance. He still stop us and gave the drive a citation. You can decide for yourself, but the officer knew before he stop us that the car was legal. Call it what you want, but we were stop because we were driving while black. I do