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Does the 911 Call Prove No Racial Profiling In The Gates Arrest
July 30th, 2009
With the audio of the 911 call coming out the other day, the notion is that:
“This would seem to undercut the idea that racial profiling was involved”
Umm, no; not necessary.
I think anyone half-sensible agrees that the neighbor was right to call the police. I don’t know of anyone who thinks the neighbor was wrong. The police’s response is the problem.
They arrested a guy for breaking into his own house, even after they knew it was his house.
Actually, I think racial profiling was simply the wrong term to have ever used as it wasn’t a police profiling case, which is a particular thing. This was initiated by a citizen complaint, and then whether it was racial animus or general police assholeness (and I’m putting my money that it was police assholeness, with a typically shorter leash for a black person); the cop charged him on some bull because Gates had the audacity express to the cop what he wanted to say, and not close his mouth.
I will take arguments that even if citizen initiatedit, that it’s still racial profiling; just not police racial profiling; as I’m still slightly debating it with myself. Either way the phone call does not prove their was no racial animus to the arrest.
What I do know is that not only do I not think that Lucia Whalen was wrong for making the call, I applaud her for it. I’ve had house break-ins in the middle of the day before with neighbors coming in and out of their house across the street, and no one supposedly sees anything. Our neighborhoods would be better if people would be a little more involved and concerned about what’s going on down the street.
However, while we see in the call that Mrs. Whalen did not push race as an issue, the 9/11 dispatcher had it that a Colored of some kind might be breaking into a good tax paying American citizens home, due to his own prodding on the issue of race. And certainly once the cop got there he knew he was looking at a Black guy, and then arrested him even though he knew it was his house.
Why did he arrest him when he committed no crime? Sergeant Crawley needs to answer that. If it’s not due to racial animus then what is the reason; not there this is any good reason for arresting someone who didn’t do anything to be arrested for.
The 911 call audio
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