Terrorist fist jab! Just kidding… they’re both reaching for the nuts. (That’swhatshesaid.)
(via AFP)
People keep harping on the fact that Biden crashed the party, with the implication that he’s an oaf with bad social radar. And that may be true. But I’m not so sure it is in this instance.
I’m seeing all the variations of this photo on my tumblr feed, and one thing stands out very clearly:
A photo of two white and two black guys having a beer together looks a hell of a lot better to blue-collar America than two black Harvard left-wing buddies and one very uncomfortable cop.
“Well, I should say at the outset that Skip Gates is a friend, so I may be a little biased here …
My understanding is, at that point, Professor Gates is already in his house. The police officer comes in. I’m sure there’s some exchange of words. But my understanding is, is that Professor Gates then shows his I.D. to show that this is his house and, at that point, he gets arrested for disorderly conduct, charges which are later dropped.”
— President Obama
Yeah but, we know what the “exchange of words” was, don’t we?
He gave the cop some lip.
He called the officer a fool for protecting the property from its rightful owner, even after the error was apparent. And so the officer showed him who was in charge.
Who hasn’t seen this attitude among law enforcement? Racial profiling may be the chocolate (!) shell, but entitlement is the creamy center. Most have this notion that they’re due deference beyond the bare minimum required to do their job.
They’re not. The mentality of privilege starts with double-parking and ends with shit-storms like this one. We need better people as cops.
It would be nice to see the officer dragged through court for profiling a personal friend of the President of the United States. It would do the nation some good. So it’s a shame Professor Gates isn’t going to sue. Of course, he is smarter than I am. I’m sure he has his reasons.
BART ‘Nigger’ bombshell waiting to go off
From today’s SFGate:
One of the videos made by riders at the Fruitvale Station in Oakland early New Year’s Day caught Officer Tony Pirone standing over the prone Grant and yelling, “Bitch-ass nigger.”
Pirone and his attorney say he was parroting an epithet that Grant first hurled at him - though Grant’s voice is not audible on the tape.
The sound-enhanced tape shows Pirone delivering a shoulder chop to Grant and bringing him to the ground. Pirone can be heard saying twice, “Bitch-ass nigger, right?”
That was before they killed the kid.
San Francisco's new top cop looks to be tailor-made
“He’s done a lot of good here,” said Stoller, the [Mesa, AZ] police union president. “Your department better get ready, though. He’s going to come in there, and he’s going to clean house and he’s going to come up with these new programs. The best thing I can tell the guys there is try them before you get really upset.”
Good.
I’ve about had enough of San Francisco’s Donut Brigade. 25% prosecution on homicides? Christ. Give me a badge.
Effing amateurs. Where are Cagney & Lacey when you need them?
