The fallout continues: Comedian Bill Cosby has weighed in on the remarks made by Barack Obama at the conclusion of last night’s televised presser from the White House.
“I’ve heard about five different reports [on the details of the arrest]. If I’m the president of the United States, I don’t care how much pressure people want to put on it about race, I’m keeping my mouth shut,” said Cosby in an interview on Boston’s WZLX.
Obama deliberately waited to call on Chicago Sun Times’ Washington bureau chief Lynn Sweet last because he obviously knew she would ask him a question about the arrest of his friend Henry Louis Gates, Jr., a distinguished Harvard University professor.
Prior to that question, most of the reporters’ questions focused on Obama’s disastrous health care reform bill.
Sgt. James Crowley arrested professor Gates last week for disorderly conduct. Obama said the Cambridge police reacted “stupidly” in arresting his friend who refused the officer’s request for ID to prove he owned the home he couldn’t unlock the front door to.
Gates, who was returning from a trip to China, couldn’t unlock his front door because he’d jammed his key in the lock.
Sgt. Crowley — the police academy expert on racial profiling — responded to Gates’ home to investigate a report of a break-in.
