The Good Cops of Boston Speak Out!!!

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http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/30/gates.police.apology/index.html

(CNN) -- A Boston, Massachusetts, police officer who sent a mass e-mail referring to Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. as a "banana-eating jungle monkey" didn't intend to express bigoted views or cause pain, his attorney said in a statement Thursday night.

In Barrett's e-mail, which was posted on a Boston television station's Web site, he declared that if he had "been the officer he verbally assaulted like a banana-eating jungle monkey, I would have sprayed him in the face with OC [oleoresin capsicum, or pepper spray] deserving of his belligerent noncompliance."

Barrett used the "jungle monkey" phrase four times, three times referring to Gates and once referring to Abraham's writing as "jungle monkey gibberish."

He also declared that he was "not a racist but I am prejudice [sic] towards people who are stupid and pretend to stand up and preach for something they say is freedom but it is merely attention because you do not get enough of it in your little fear-dwelling circle of on-the-bandwagon followers."

According to a statement from Boston police, Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis took action immediately after learning of Barrett's remarks, stripping the officer of his gun and his badge. All of Barrett's prior arrest and field investigations will be examined for indications of racial bias, Davis said. Video Watch police say Barrett will be held accountable »

Barrett is now "on administrative leave, pending the outcome of a termination hearing," police said.

 

[DaRizzle]

dude...give it up

newsflash...there are stupid people in the world

 

[DaRizzle]

...but that cop is REALLY stupid...wow

 

[cmac44111]

Yep welcome to the Boston Police.

 

[Shapecity]

I am prejudice [sic] towards people who are stupid

haha nice choice of words coming from a moron

 

[deception]

haha nice choice of words coming from a moron

the lunacy of the statement was that he was calling prof gates stupid; the same professor gates who's widely considered one of the most important academics in his field in of expertise. and this idiot probably struggled just to get his high school diploma.

 

[maxiep]

the lunacy of the statement was that he was calling prof gates stupid; the same professor gates who's widely considered one of the most important academics in his field in of expertise. and this idiot probably struggled just to get his high school diploma.

Gates isn't particularly brilliant. His field is PC psuedo-academics. That being said, I'm quite certain he's smarter than the cop that wrote that e-mail.

 

[DaRizzle]

the lunacy of the statement was that he was calling prof gates stupid; the same professor gates who's widely considered one of the most important academics in his field in of expertise. and this idiot probably struggled just to get his high school diploma.

 

[porky88]

Why is it hard for people to consider that cops are stupid?

Some are and to be fair it appears the professor was just as stupid by some of the words he apparently expressed. Dumb and Dumber might be the most appropriate headline for this entire situation.

 

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obama to the rescue:

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[speeds]

MadTV still exists?

 

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MadTV still exists?

no, its real time with bill maher