This is the follow up to that Gates thing, which of course had a huge media following. Did I ever tell you I can predict the future? I don't always agree with what Maher says, but I think he's got it right on the button here.
This is what Maher says about it:
I’m not even sure if this is really a racial situation. I don’t know if this cop is racist, but it seems to me more like a police situation . It seems to me like Henry Louis Gates was arrested for the crime of not kissing the behind of the police officer. And I think that’s too often the problem we have in this country with the police.
Why was this man arrested? I can see why the police came. I can see why they went into his home. I can see why they asked him to step out. But at that point they knew everything they needed to know about the situation. He wasn’t a burglar; it was his home. Who was being threatened? If you arrest somebody I assume it means it’s because they are in some way a threat. What was the threat? Why couldn’t that policeman just walk away at that point?
[Wolf Blitzer] We don’t know the extent of the disorderly conduct.
Wait a second. Disorderly conduct? He’s a 58 year old crippled professor. Are you telling me he was a threat to the people in his neighborhood. He was gonna go on a rampage with his cain?
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