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Originally Posted by Shawnski
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Wow!
This situation just keeps getting odder, doesn't it? Now that's
definitely not consistent with Crowley's report--but it's also not the sort of thing one misremembers. Could Crowley have talked to the older woman who asked Whalen to call the police? I don't know--I feel like I'm reaching a little.
The other officer, who arrived later, also reported talking to Whalen, but nowhere in his report does it say that she said anything about race, only that Gates was yelling about it from inside the house prior to being arrested on the deck.
Personally, I think the race aspect of this is probably overblown anyway--if Whalen was there when Gates was arrested, I would like her to clarify some of the differences between Gates' account and Crowley's, if she can. I suppose that's unlikely.