Dr. Henry Louis Gates Arrested

UGAalum94 · #1 07-22-2009, 02:16 PM

Dr. Phil,

I'm not getting why you think that if you aren't currently threatening, you don't get arrested.

I don't think Gates needed to be arrested at all, but assuming for a minute he was actually doing what he was arrested for (eta: disorderly conduct, I think), I don't see how being old and needing a cane would in itself make him less "guilty" or arrest worthy. You could be guilty of whatever without being physically threatening.

Again, not that I really think he was. But oldish, cane using guys can still commit crimes.

DrPhil · #2 07-22-2009, 09:16 PM

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I'm not getting why you think that if you aren't currently threatening, you don't get arrested.

I don't think that.

UGAalum94 · #3 07-22-2009, 09:54 PM

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I don't think that.

So why did you remark about how he was handcuffed?

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He is 58.

So if he was nonthreatening enough to cuff in the front (due to age, the situation had calmed enough to avoid a struggle, or because he has a cane), why is he being arrested? LOL.

DrPhil · #4 07-22-2009, 10:09 PM

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So why did you remark about how he was handcuffed?

Because I was talking about how he was handcuffed.

UGAalum94 · #5 07-22-2009, 10:49 PM

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Because I was talking about how he was handcuffed.

So the officer should have recognized that if he could be front cuffed he didn't previously break the law?

DrPhil · #6 07-22-2009, 10:50 PM

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So the officer should have recognized that if he could be front cuffed he didn't previously break the law?

McDonald's fries dipped in caramel sundaes.

BabyPiNK_FL · #7 07-22-2009, 10:54 PM

Someone may have already brought it up but, in the police report he WAS originally handcuffed in the front. He let them know that he needed a cane and could not manage that way and the officer asked for another officer to rearrange the cuffs so he would be more comfortable.

Kevlar281 · #8 07-22-2009, 10:43 PM

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So why did you remark about how he was handcuffed?

It was in response to something I had posted. Usually I would give the responding police officers the benefit of the doubt but when I saw the front cuff on the news a red flag went up.

UGAalum94 · #9 07-22-2009, 10:50 PM

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It was in response to something I had posted. Usually I would give the responding police officers the benefit of the doubt but when I saw the front cuff on the news a red flag went up.

Why?