If I Was Officer Crowley........

[Raven]

you'd be .....

The
Boston
Bigfish

[fishbones]

Originally Posted by FishermanTim

For the record, her name was LEAKED to the press by the Cambridge police. The POLICE reported that she racially profiled the suspects. She only came forward AFTER the media had released her name.
If she hadn't come forward and FORCED the police to release the
911 tapes SHE would be probably defending herself against some trumped up civil charge.
Isn't funny that once she was able to have the 911 call played on the air the media stopped hounding her and treating her like a social pariah?

Maybe when she sues all those that helped and allowed the libel, slander of her charatcer and threats to her person, then she'll have her 15 minutes of fame?

So let me recap again:
She is not a racist. Never had been.
She did not report any racially profiled 911 call.
She only answered the question the 911 dispatcher asked her about the ethnicity of the suspected persons.
She NEVER spoke with Officer Crowley.
She did not seek the media, the media hunted her down.
She came forward only after having her name and character slandered in the media and the public.
She had received threats to her person.

Any other questions?

Why are you so up in arms about this? I've followed this and haven't seen her labeled as a racist. She hasn't been slandered in any news reports I've read or heard. If anything, she's been a sympathetic figure because she was doing what any good citizen would do if they were in the same position. She's upset because some bloggers have called her a racist. As far as I know, bloggers aren't real news people. They're just people with opinions who have access to a computer.

And how do you know she didn't speak to the officer? Maybe she lied to you. I read her quotes as saying she never told Crowley the men were black. She didn't say she never spoke to him in the interview I read.

[FishermanTim]

Originally Posted by fishbones

Why are you so up in arms about this? I've followed this and haven't seen her labeled as a racist. She hasn't been slandered in any news reports I've read or heard. If anything, she's been a sympathetic figure because she was doing what any good citizen would do if they were in the same position. She's upset because some bloggers have called her a racist. As far as I know, bloggers aren't real news people. They're just people with opinions who have access to a computer.

And how do you know she didn't speak to the officer? Maybe she lied to you. I read her quotes as saying she never told Crowley the men were black. She didn't say she never spoke to him in the interview I read.

I should step off my soapbox for a moment, because you are right that I sound like I'm getting up in arms.

My reason for me getting so worked up begins with the thought that this woman, a good friend of mine, had been receiving threats for doing the right thing in that situation.

She had been labeled as "racist" from the very start.
The media had pinned that label from the get-go. That's where the bloggers got their fuel for the fire.
Because of these early presumptions she was perceived to have been the person that injected "race" into the event, when she clearly had not.

I believe this woman. I've known her and her husband for close to 20 years, and she is the kind of friend that you would be proud to know.
I spoke with her and her husband this past weekend, and they gave me the complete rundown of events. That included their comment that officer Crowley stated in his report that he had spoken to her, when she vehemently denied having spoken to her.

It pains me to see such a nice person have to defend herself against untruths, where the media considered her guilty until she proved her innocence in this chain of events.

Now I plan on putting this all behind me and move on to more important things in the world like Tiger Woods flatulent gold shot!

Thanks for the reality check!

[Bocephus]

If the wingnut in the whitehouse had kept his mouth shut about his buddy, just after he said he didnt know all the facts, I dont think this would have blown up the way it did. But the media is to blame for the firestorm that followed. I cant wait until the media takes its head out of its butt and realizes they have been and are being played. Mark my words, it will happen. Nobody likes to be made a fool of, and thats exactly what the Obama camp has been doing, hell, he has even made jokes of it publicly. whats that barenaked ladies song? "Lying in Obama's bed, just like Brian Williams did."