Reply #26: Again, what does it have to do with racial profiling? [View All]

[MellowDem]

No one knows if he made up what the witness said and was intentionally lying. He might just have reported wrong after, which happens quite often when having to recall such things. Gates turned out to be black, so he could've just been reporting the facts, having forgotten exactly what the woman said. As it was, she said one of the men looked Hispanic, and the other she couldn't see.

I don't know how Crowley lying about it on the police report would help him in any way, or what the motivation would be, or how that changes the fact that it wasn't racial profiling. If anything, it proves it wasn't even moreso, or it makes it racial profiling against Hispanics? He was at the house because of a reported break-in, not because Gates is black.

The racial profiling charge on here was made at the woman who called it in. They accused her of being a racist white lady before knowing the facts. And a lot of others did it outside the site as well. The fact that the cops responded to a call of a break-in wasn't the evidence of racial profiling, it was the idea that a white lady would call in because she saw black people.

But, when that turned out to be false, much to the embarrassment of many here and elsewhere, someone had to be to blamed for racial profiling. The sad irony is that the people looking to blame Crowley were the ones that were making all sorts of assumptions based on race before the facts were known.

Then the controversly became whether Crowley was so harsh with Gates because he was black. Whether he was discriminating against him. Of course, that became a he said/he said, with nothing really being able to be proven, considering that there was an actual reason for Crowley to be there. Regardless, Crowley did end up speaking with Gates later and with Obama at the beer summit. Gates even said that their relations were amicable. If Crowley was a racist, I don't know why he would've done any of those things.