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Charge against Gates dropped
By adamg on Tue, 07/21/2009 - 12:19pm
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another apologist
The article seems to have a slight spin. The statement includes Gates with the city and police as agreeing that "the incident of July 16, 2009 was regrettable and unfortunate." Also, "This incident should not be viewed as one that demeans the character and reputation of Professor Gates or the character of the Cambridge Police Department."
That looks like I'm sorry all the way around and not just a chastened Cambridge.
Police dropped the charges
"The statement said the police and Gates agreed dropping the charge was a just resolution."
Police dropped the charges, both parties agreed it was a just resolution. Done.
last word?
Aside from the media, whom I'm sure will go on at length, I think we should look forward to a comment from the high muckamucks Gates or Ogletree.
Channel 5 just broke into All My Children
So, yeah, the media is going on at length.
Care to modify your statement?
If anything, Universalhub.com "drinks from the firehose". So I say there is no way you were sitting round watching All My Children or General Hospital.
We have an unusual setup here at Universal Hub Enterprises
I once actually set up an office down in the basement. Only it's too cold in the winter and too damp in the summer. So now it's our backup junk storage area and Nancy has repurposed my cheapo oh-so-not-an-Aeron chair with the little wheelie things (love the wheelie things) for her sewing room (i.e., what was the third bedroom).
So I tend to work at either the dining room table or, on days when it's not too hot or humid, on the back porch. And I was furiously working away, doing Universal Hubbish things (actually, I think I was working on Dorchester crime reports, but whatever) when I heard her exclaim "They just dropped the charges against that professor," followed quickly by "They're interrupting All My Children for that?"
All My Children
How do you know?
I think you need to come clean. Do they show All My Children in Argentina?
Non sequitur
Okay okay, you got me! I have no capacity to wrap my head round 120-plus posting threads, say to the main Gates discussion from the other day. Let me go participate where my pea-brain can follow.
I tip my hat to you posters.
last word? no
It's done, a just resolution. Classy, I'd say.
Read this on a blog by an an
Read this on a blog by an an attorney specializing in civil litigation at Henshon Parker LLP, a small firm in Boston's financial district.
right resolution
Cooler heads prevailed.
This likely will continue to be debated, but not as an ongoing legal matter and accompanying circus. Good. It merits thoughtful reflection.
Whoa, does that mean
Whoa, does that mean Cambridge isn't a racist hotbed anymore? Because it sure seems like one, doesn't it! Poor Professor Gates. I hope he gets another PBS deal out of this one.
This isn't over yet...
Boston Herald:
oh no, Sharpton
When I lived in NYC during the 80s and early 90s, I watched Sharpton & his cronies wreak havoc on any reasonable attempt at building honest understanding on issues of race.
I would hope that Gates and Ogletree are above that. There ARE serious, disturbing questions about this situation that deserve attention. Anything to do with Al Sharpton is unlikely to lead to anything constructive.