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Here is what the absurdist, typically stilted language of Sergeant James Crowley's report on the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. really means:
Gates: You're not the boss of me! Crowley: I am the boss of you. Gates: You are not the boss of me! Crowley: I'll show you. You're under arrest.
Jon Shane, who spent 17 years as a police officer in hardscrabble Newark, N.J., said that had he been the cop called to Gates' house, he would have left Gates and his huffy comments alone once he was sure Gates was the homeowner. He admits he may well have been...
Like Shane, there are plenty of cops and ex-cops who think Gates' behavior didn't warrant the disorderly-conduct charge, and there are those, like Nolan, who feel it did.
There is no crime described in Crowley's official version of the way Gates behaved. Crowley says explicitly that he arrested Gates for yelling. Nothing else, not a single threatening movement, just yelling. On the steps of his own home. Yelling is not a crime. Yelling does not meet the...