Officer Jim Crowley Deserves Congratulations; Denounces Obama Comment

Good for Officer Jim Crowley; he didn’t fold under some public criticism and one shot coming from President Obama.  He felt the procedures that he followed in the wake of answering a break in call was correct and that no prejudice was used. 

“That apology will never come from me as Jim Crowley, it won’t come from me as sergeant in the Cambridge Police Department,” Sgt. James Crowley told Boston radio station WEEI. “Whatever anybody else chooses to do in the name of the city of Cambridge or the Cambridge Police Department which are beyond my control, I don’t worry about that. I know what I did was right. I have nothing to apologize for.”  He later stated “He’s the president of the United States, and I support the president to a point,” Crowley told WEEI. “I think it’s disappointing that he waded into what should be a local issue and something that is — really that plays out here. As he himself had said at the beginning of that press conference, he didn’t know all the facts. He certainly doesn’t based on those comments. I just think it was very disappointing.”

President Obama, who clearly is still waist deep in a love fest with himself, felt the need to weigh in on this subject despite admitting not knowing all the facts.  Hmm….isn’t this the same guy who said that he waited 3 days to comment on the Chris Dodd/AIG bonus scandal because he wanted to know what the facts were before he commented.  Aside from that being a B.S. excuse, he has always said that he likes to wait for until all the facts are in before taking a position. 

But in the case of his friend, Henry Louis Gates Jr, a fellow African American, he had no problem shooting from the hip and taking an immediate stance clearly based on race.  “But I think it’s fair to say, No. 1, any of us would be pretty angry; No. 2, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home; and, No. 3 … that there’s a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately.”

I just want to give a loud shout out to Sgt Jim Crowley, who seems to be standing strong in the face of what is becoming a far too frequent occurance of shouting racist.  And shame on you Mr. President, for commenting on a situation that feeds into racial tension when you did not have the full story.