Boston Cop Calls Gates “Jungle Monkey” In Email

A Boston cop might lose his job after he vented his frustration toward Harvard professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr, in an email.

Gates created a national firestorm of controversy when he was arrested after hurling racist accusations at a white police officer who was investigating a possible break-in at Gates’s Harvard-owned residence in Boston.

Both Gates and Sergeant James Crowley have threatened to file lawsuits against each other.

From TheBostonChannel.com:

A Boston police officer was placed on administrative leave after he allegedly used a racial slur when referring to Henry Louis Gates Jr.

In a mass e-mail, Officer Justin Barrett, 36, called Gates a “jungle monkey,” according to Elaine Driscoll, a spokeswoman for the Boston Police Department.
Gates, a black Harvard scholar, was arrested at his home earlier this month on a disorderly conduct charge after he tried to budge open the door of his Cambridge home.
Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis found out about the e-mail on Tuesday and immediately stripped Barrett of his gun and badge, Driscoll said. The e-mail was sent anonymously to his Barrett’s fellow guard members and the Boston Globe.

iscream

The tone of this post is almost as if you actually agree this time that the act was wrong one can only hope.
scorpio

BUSTED
Krysi J

all of em’ STUPID, why the hell is this news again???!!!

Im tired of this subject. EVERY SINGLE LAST ONE OF THEM ARE ACTING CHILDISH AND STUPID!
KaraZ

Krysi meant to tell you earlier, you’re a cutie.

I grew up in the city of Boston, I am not surprised. This is the same city that stopped every black man within a 10 mile radius because the matched the description of a “suspect,” when Charles Stuart decided he wanted to shoot his pregnant wife dead and blame it on some black men…. boo!
scorpio

And what about some in the Philadelphia police department running a website dogging black folks?
keely107

Is he YT? Cause in that case, he wont be fired, suspended with pay for a week to take his family to Disney World! But Obama is soooooo bad, like he said “stupidly”
Krysi J

Krysi meant to tell you earlier, you’re a cutie.

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thank you sweetie!

I think that there is a possibility that this whole situation just turned ugly. An educated BLACK man with a no doubt beautiful home looked suspect breaking in. Policed arrived…..yea we could say it was racial profiling but at the same time at least the police WERE CALLED TO MAKE SURE HIS HOME WASN’T BROKE IN TO…and then of course you as a HARVARD professor get embarassed at the cops showing up at your house asking you to come out with your hands up, but whats so fukking wrong with staying calm and explaining the situation before you pull the race card and assume you are being arrested because you are BLACK! Can you not understand why you look suspect?? NOW THE NEIGHBORS WHO CALLED MAY BE RACIST if they knew it was the professor’s house and they call the cops anyway, but he acts as if the cops were supposed to know him by name and face…..if they don’t like the color of our skin what makes MF think they are going to stay updated on our accomplishments….just stay calm, be patient, and explain….if he had not reacted like he did he would have had a better case against the cops because he would have cooperated and the cops would have had NO REASON what so ever to arrest him!
Krysi J

And another thang…

This same Harvard dude talking all this shyt about racist cops and probably agrees with Bill Cosby and all the other high horse black folks that think that some black people are worthless and wouldn’t even take the time out to read an article about a high school educated black man arrested as a suspect for breaking and entering his own house…So don’t get mad if Im not pissed at the WHITE man for doing his JOB because ol’ boy got degrees like shawty got gifts.

Don’t believe the hype.
http://charactercorner.blogspot.com attorneymom

I am still stuck on the false statements about the description of the alleged suspects contained in Officer Crowley.

Boy, I wished Oscar Grant’s murder by a police officer would have generated this much national attention. Sigh.
http://charactercorner.blogspot.com attorneymom

I am still stuck on the false statements about the description of the alleged suspects contained in Officer Crowley’s police report.

Boy, I wished Oscar Grant’s murder by a police officer would have generated this much national attention. Sigh.
Daisy

Krysi in all that u forgot that Gates showed 2 forms of I’d proving it was his house B4 getting mad
iscream

@ Krysi

GUUUURRRRRLLLLLL

I HATE WILLIAM H COSBY house nicca having arse!!!!! He is quick to shyt on the black community. So funny you mentioned him because I thought of him when I heard this story. Always speaking out when nobody asked his opinion but when you need to speak out….. *crickets crickets* hate it when people make it and then look down on others. He doesn’t know anyones struggles but his own…

I’m going to stop here because he isn’t worth my anger. & IF this Gates dude has the same attitude as head of the house nicca’s. Good for him for getting a reality check.

In the words of Kanye West… if you in a Benz you’re still a n!gger in a Coupe.
Daisy

The issue isn’t the cop doing his JOB as I kept telling Sandra it was AFTER Gates proved it was his house and the actions that took place that point forward. From what I know about Gates he is not like Cosby as far as talking down to black folks although I am not a fan of Cosbys delivery I do feel he has made some good points over the years.

I watched Gates special on PBS helping black stars and everyday blacks find out where they came from in Africa.

Also if a person looks down on educated men isnt that the same as them looking down on poor blacks?
Krysi J

Now hold up wait a minute let me put some…

“CHURCHIN in it.”

I didn’t say anything about looking down on the man, Im just saying that usually how they roll, and you can’t deny that we have a lotta Bill Cosby’s out there. I can understand his frustration with the po po’s but at the same time imagine if he had stayed calm and let the police make a fool outta him……the headlines would not be how he acted…..the headlines would have only spoke on the racial profiling. Who knows it may have costed the lil fire kracker hiz job…..but now he got everbody support cuz the professor let them MAKE HIM look IGNORANT. Now he may very well love everyone in the black community, but I wouldn’t be surprised if ol’ boy has the nerve to pull the race card when he himself (like Bill Cosby) looks down on his own kind. Which is why I feel this crap doesn’t deserve all this fukking coverage.
Krysi J

@ *costed*

my bad yall!
Daisy

I don’t think it deserves all the coverage either but the situation got it. Gates and his lawyer have BOTH worked on racial profiling in the past way back in the day with Clinton. His lawyer has said from day one he isnt sure if this was a case of racial profiling and you still didnt adress the fact that the Prof showed 2 forms of ID which is why he got mad and went off if I had to guess that and he was tired as hail from his flight
pointhimout

well, he’s outta there. hey man, think what you want, but once you put it out in the universe, albeit email (which may be worse), you just can’t take it back. Dont get it twisted; recalling an outlook email DOES NOT WORK. I repeat: RECALL AN OUTLOOK SENT EMAIL does not work.
Krysi J

till didnt adress the fact that the Prof showed 2 forms of ID which is why he got mad and went off if I had to guess that and he was tired as hail from his flight
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I did! I said he should have stayed calm and LET them make a fool outta him it would have given him a stronger case against them. However they made a fool outta him, and he made a fool outta himself….only now that actually have an argument against him. Who knows if could have taken himself to that place where he knew to play smart……he know whyte people (not all) get a kick outta black people getting pissed off AKA disorderly conduct…. and soon az dem MF left called Al Sharpton… *snap of the fingers* …… o’l boy job would have been up for sale. He lost it, he GAVE them a reason, he GAVE them ammunition….come on now black folks….we know the game, we know how they act with badges…….this ain nothing new.
Daisy

I agree this is nothing new and his lawyer is a weekly guest on rev Als show so he was already on speed dial..lol

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