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Harvard Professor Gates was he racially profiled?

March 12th, 2010 4 comments

Well time for my story. I am not one of the 25 most influential Americans in the USA, I did not graduate from Yale, I am magna or summa cm laude…I am just a former SSGT that was racially profiled just like this famous and prominent African-American gentleman. I am not afraid to name one of the officers DC Roper remember his name. He and his co-hort who really was not at fault pulled me over because I was BLACK and I fit the profile of the Jamaican Drug traffickers they were looking to stop. I believe had I not let them search my car I would not be writing this. Since that time, my life has really spiralled out of control I cannot work anymore. I cannot find a job to support my family. I blame some on me but the rest on Milton County Florida on the Santa Rosa County Sheriffs Dept. On DC Roper and all connected who would not let us file a grievance against the police department by me SGT Rice and 2 of my white buddies one named Foxx who grew up in Milton and knows how racist it still is. This even happened tome in the late 1980’s I posted bond I was let out I was refused PTI (pretrial Intervention ) because I was married that disqualified me. Now I have to see a psychiatrist. For all the crap this little racist town put me through. If you have a similar story and especially if you are a person of color tell it now …now that one of the most influential and famous black Americans has been arrested by racial profiling. I was a SGT in the 919th Special operations Air Force police. I had never had a record. Now the FBI has me on their charts did death do me part. I can only be restored by a pardon from the Governor of Florida but almost twenty years has passed. I hope this will not ever happen to anyone it is tragic it happened to Professor Gates of Harvard. Maybe and not because he is black but he is looking out for all Americans and don’t think President Obama is going to take it lightly that one his his most influential and famous citizens was racially profiled and then put in handcuffs and basically snubbed by Harvard Campus police who refused to give their names they should all be charged and fired.

I don’t believe he was racially profiled, but he was singled out for being rude and obnoxious to the responding police officer, the problem with the police is the fact we have a first amendment right to free speech, so once the professor produced documentation of his place of residency the police investigation stopped, the fact he continued to be rude to the police after the fact is not a crime, i.e. why the DA dropped the charge

So while the police may have been offended by the way he conducted himself, once it was established he was not a criminal, the offense nature absent intent to harm the officer, is allowed under our first amendment rights, the police had no right to arrested a person expressing their first amendment right to free speech