This is an interesting video. When the officer says that if he had the call again he would not do anything different…I hope he is just saying that…I hope he does not believe that he did the correct thing.
I have been called all sorts of names and had some pretty bad comments made and I never arrested anyone for saying those things. The guy was at his own home and I am sure he was being an ass-hole and I am sure that if he had been in a public place that you could make an arrest for something…but the guy was in his home or on his own front porch.
I hope the officer has an audio recording or something of Gates saying some real bad things. If he has a recording like that…he needs to just hold on to it a bit.. Let Gates made public statements that he said only such and such and that he did not say such and such and THEN come up with the tape.
The city had decided not to press charges…The best thing would be for Gates to just forget about the whole thing…but it does not look like he is going to do it.
Two words. Record Everything.
Posted by: Joe 2.0 | Friday, July 24, 2009 at 06:52