The Boston Globe Reports: "[Boston Police] Officer Justin Barrett was suspended Tuesday after allegedly writing the racially charged email about Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. to colleagues at the National Guard, referring to … [Read more...]
Unbearable irony: Judge Sotomayor might actually oppose the firing of Officer Barrett
So the Boston Police Department, having discovered that one of its officers (Justin Barrett) sent a truly revolting email about the Henry Louis Gates arrest to the Globe and some other folks, has suspended him, and is apparently going to … [Read more...]
Jeff Santos Show interview with Cambridge Mayor Simmons
c/p itinerantactivist The Jeff Santos Show on 1510AM Revolution Boston will interview Cambridge Mayor Denise Simmons regarding the Gates-Crowley controversy tomorrow morning 7/30/09 at 8:45 am ET. The interview will be rebroadcast at 6pm ET … [Read more...]
Gatesgate, part two (now starring Globe reporter Yvonne Abraham)
The email itself, courtesy of Fox25 Boston: What no one has reported (yet) is precisely what got Barrett so exercised. A small amount of digging reveals this column by the Boston Globe's Yvonne … [Read more...]
Some thought-provoking analyses of the Gates arrest
Stanley Fish, a longtime friend and colleague of Gates's, in his New York Times blog summarizes the racist treatment Gates has suffered since his earliest days as a professor. It's important for those of us who have followed his career to … [Read more...]
Police unions get their backs up; Obama talks with Crowley [update] and Gates
I see that Bob has just written a similar post. But I was working on this when his went up, so I'm posting it anyway. ;-) Around here, things seem to be going from bad to worse. Police unions today called on President Obama and … [Read more...]
Front page watch: Chris Matthews may have been right after all
Right after President Obama's health care presser the other night, Chris Matthews predicted that Obama had "stepped on his headline" by venturing into the controversy still swirling around Gatesgate. Initial results showed him to be … [Read more...]
Did Obama step on his health care headline?
On MSNBC tonight, Chris Matthews speculated that President Obama might have "stepped on his headline" by jumping into the controversy over the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Matthews thought that, given the … [Read more...]
“Racial Profiling Is Alive And Well”
This incident itself is an opening to the issue of racial profiling. Here are links to information about two other recent, prominent cases: http://www.aclum.org/news/2007... http://www.aclum.org/docket/va... The first involves the … [Read more...]
Cambridge cops take black, disabled professor away in handcuffs. Read the police report here.
FURTHER UPDATE: Here is a joint statement that would seem to end the matter: Joint Press Release from City of Cambridge, Cambridge PD, Middlesex County D.A., and Prof. Gates The City of Cambridge and the Cambridge Police Department have … [Read more...]