Red, black, Portorican, doesn’t matter with abuse of power unless you fall in the white category. Particularly when the black man throws out the “race card” then all bets are off vis a vis the Constitution.

However Crowley’s police report indicates that Whalen tells him of two black men on the porch with backpacks. Whalen has a made a public statement saying she said no such thing. Crowley nor his representative has publically disputed Whalen.

So now we have Crowley with the 911 caller and he apparently does not say to her “What did you see?” He reacts to what? Gates appearing behind the glass door. Hmmm. A black man.

Now the next question would be: Can Crowley approach the man behind the glass door and ask (demand?) that he step outside? Can Crowley that the man show some proof that he resides at the house? Can Crowley claim exigent circumstances and enter the house and arrest Gates?

How pertinent is this:

(“[I]f there are articulable facts supporting a reasonable suspicion that a person has committed a criminal offense, that person may be stopped in order to identify him, to question him briefly, or to detain him briefly while attempting to obtain additional information”); Adams v. Williams, 407 U.S. 143, 146 (1972)

Now exactly what “articulable facts” that support “a reasonable suspicion that a person has committed a criminal offense” did Crowley have? A POSSIBLE BE by two males, Gates, a black man, standing behind the glass door??? Bingo!!!

BTW Gates is only required to give his name if the above facts are in play. No address, no photo, name only. Anything beyond is up to the police to obtain in an investigation.

Also I now believe that Obama has made a big mistake in having the beer party because I suspect in a month or so Crowley will be in serious trouble.

Obama made a political miscue in saying “the police acted stupidly”. Why? Because no one in the news media is really interested in just following the known facts to their logical conclusion.

Will there be an investigation into Crowley’s apparent false police report? If it is false and Whalen’s account is correct Crowley clearly did a very poor job of invetigation at the scene of possible BE. He reacted to perhaps his base preconceptions.

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What do you propose? That the police stand around while an unknown individual continually interferes with the actions required of them? He wasn’t just protesting the police activity, he was drawing a crowd and disturbing the neighbors. So the police’s action may look to you as being unjustified, but was in fact what was required.

Like I said, I don’t have all the facts. If I am wrong about any assumptions I have made based on my understanding of this case, I’ll happily make the necessary corrections.

So in a theoretical case, if an officer showed up because a break-in was reported, and the first person he saw said, “Oh, I live here,” would you expect the officer to take that at face value?