This is complete BS

[preferredduck]

the bottom line is the case was dropped due to the fact that these guys were protected by THE LAW. a law "created" by a white man, upheld by a black man, & "protected" a group of black men. sounds to me like you issue should be with BUSH.

lol, I ca't believe you're still stuck on the gates thing. in all fairness, gates was on his PRIVATE property. isn't it conservatives who always demand freedoms & less government? why shouldn't gates or ANYONE be able to say whatever they want to whomever they want when on their personal property. if we to go by your "standards" then obama has every right to come to YOUR private property, & arrest you now for calling him a racist on a PUBLIC forum.

the police had rights as soon as the call was put in for a possible burglary. i have an alarm system at my house. about 4 years ago i set it off one morning and did not hit the right button. guess what my white ass had to do, put my hands in the air and prove i lived at the residence. after about 10 mins they they left but the whole time they treated me like i did not live here, it's their job. if i was a criminal they did not want me to leave, so the point being gates should have cooperated.

Don't get me started on bush, i think he should have criminal charges against him.

[stephen]

the police had rights as soon as the call was put in for a possible burglary. i have an alarm system at my house. about 4 years ago i set it off one morning and did not hit the right button. guess what my white ass had to do, put my hands in the air and prove i lived at the residence. after about 10 mins they they left but the whole time they treated me like i did not live here, it's their job. if i was a criminal they did not want me to leave, so the point being gates should have cooperated.

Don't get me started on bush, i think he should have criminal charges against him.

calling the police does not give them any extra rights. the call is to make them aware of a danger to the public and/or an individual, and request their assistance with the use of the law.

once gates was identified as the owner of this particular personal property, further validating that there was no crime in process, then he should've no longer been considered the suspect of ANY other crime. he used his FREEDOM OF SPEECH to express how the situation made him feel. the cop acted stupidly by using his powers against someone who hadn't broken any laws due to him being on his personal property. why do you think he requested gates to "come outside?"

at the end of the day, reality OBVIOUSLY doesn't matter to some of you. due to the fact that no one owns slaves anymore, and we have a black president, black people are no longer justified for suggesting racism still exist...and if it does, then it's the blacks who are racist.

[preferredduck]

calling the police does not give them any extra rights. the call is to make them aware of a danger to the public and/or an individual, and request their assistance with the use of the law.

once gates was identified as the owner of this particular personal property, further validating that there was no crime in process, then he should've no longer been considered the suspect of ANY other crime. he used his FREEDOM OF SPEECH to express how the situation made him feel. the cop acted stupidly by using his powers against someone who hadn't broken any laws due to him being on his personal property. why do you think he requested gates to "come outside?"

at the end of the day, reality OBVIOUSLY doesn't matter to some of you. due to the fact that no one owns slaves anymore, and we have a black president, black people are no longer justified for suggesting racism still exist...and if it does, then it's the blacks who are racist.

actually the phone call was probable cause and from my understanding he did not immediatley show who he was. gates should not have ran his mouth and pulled the race card and just should have said here is my ID officer, thanks for looking out for everything i own. go tell a cop a remark similar to his or flip them off or whatever you like and i bet you will get charged with something. we do have freedon of speech and you can say what you want, but on the flip side to this you should not be degrading to a cop, or any other person for that matter. i have the first ammendment right too but if i were to drop the N bomb i would get sued, charges filed, etc. i still want to find an attorney about my incident last year. i was called a cracker at work and lost my job. i guess teh rights only go so far these days.