Sgt Leon Lashley was present during the arrest of a disorderly Gates outside of his house. After almost a week of trying to paint this arrest episode as a racial case of police abuse, CNN is forced to try to give the other side of this event because other news outlets had been exposing it for days at this point. The average CNN viewer who depends on this network for their education of the issues receives constant propaganda and misinformation until it’s too late, and their minds are already made up. Admittedly, most of their minds were already made up before they even tuned in to CNN, but this yellow journalist channel of Ted Turner’s provides the confirmation they need to see America the way they do.
If this man is a SGT on a police force that is notorious for having complaints of racial profiling lodged against it by non-white students at Harvard, then he’s probably a Sambo. Ethnicity aside, cops protect other cops at the expense of truth and justice anyway. If Dr. Gates showed ID in his own home, attitudes and egos aside, he shouldn’t have been arrested in his own home.
How hilarious is it that this idiot screaming racism calls a black person a ‘SAMBO’?
My gosh the hypocrisy is staggering.
And it’s nice that CNN’s resident priest in the Church of The One, Don Lemon, gets completely PWNed by blacks willing to speak their mind instead of falling in line to jump at the bid of their democratic masters.
Priceless.
if the police walked away and there was a burgler in the home and gates was hurt … we would be screaming that the police did not do enough to protec t him because he was black… i refuse to make jugements without knowing the full story
…it doesn’t make sense…he’s black too. Did you hear the other “CNN Interviews Cambridge Cop Sgt. Leon Lashley”…if he was really wanting to cover for his friend …why not lie and tell people that he heard Gates insulting Crowley’s mother? He didn’t do that…he doesn’t say he heard that.
You couldn’t possibly be calling me an idiot for screaming racism because I never did. My comments are generalizations of an example of a black man in a position of perceived power when he feels he has to live up to the acceptance of dominating whites, whom he believes is in control of his livelyhood. Surely you will be able to get on with your life now. I know I will.
My comments are generalizations only. Being black too has nothing to do with siding with wrong out of fear. Again, these are generalizations. Neither of us were there, so I give my opinion about what I’ve read & heard and my own experiences just like everyone else on youtube.
what does your statement mean…”siding with wrong out of fear”? ….”wrong” hasn’t been established here
I think you just “profiled” a cop. ..
I knew -when these black officers spoke up that they would be accused of being “uncle Toms”…..I just knew it….throw ’em under the bus because they stood up for a cop who happens to be “white”….forget everything they may have done in their lives to help their own race….this is just nuts.
there is a descrepancy with the police report and Lucia Whalen’s 911 call…that’s the only thing that doesn’t sound right with Crowley.
Also,Prof. Gates statements don’t match up with witnesses (see Gayle King’s interview on Oprah radio)
Gates’ statements
Siding with wrong out of fear means that the silent police code goes before any other issue. If he had witnessed any violations of police procedure, out of fear of being targeted by other fellow officers for not following the code, he would have stood by the officer in the wrong no matter what. That’s what I meant by that. AGAIN…my comments are generalizations of these events & my own experiences. I never said anyone on either side did wrong.
Well “whoops!”
Classic example of “Dont bite the hand that feeds you”