Comments on: 911 transcript does not clear neighbor in Gates racial profiling case http://www.ethnicmajority.com/wordpress/civil-rights/2009/07/911-transcript-does-not-clear-neighbor-in-gates-racial-profiling-case Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:03:56 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Clifford Tong http://www.ethnicmajority.com/wordpress/civil-rights/2009/07/911-transcript-does-not-clear-neighbor-in-gates-racial-profiling-case/comment-page-1#comment-4940 Clifford Tong Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:52:14 +0000 http://www.ethnicmajority.com/wordpress/?p=433#comment-4940 Your point is well taken, which is why it is important to look at the 911 call transcript, which is factual, rather than the police and eyewitness reports, which are subjective. The 911 call transcript confirms that Ms. Whalen did witness the event, albeit at a distance. Your point is well taken, which is why it is important to look at the 911 call transcript, which is factual, rather than the police and eyewitness reports, which are subjective. The 911 call transcript confirms that Ms. Whalen did witness the event, albeit at a distance.

]]> By: Annabeth Amerine http://www.ethnicmajority.com/wordpress/civil-rights/2009/07/911-transcript-does-not-clear-neighbor-in-gates-racial-profiling-case/comment-page-1#comment-4909 Annabeth Amerine Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:30:53 +0000 http://www.ethnicmajority.com/wordpress/?p=433#comment-4909 The incident did not begin for Ms. Whalen with her seeing two people with suitcases trying to enter a house in broad daylight. It began, while she was on her way to lunch, when "an elderly woman stopped her on Ware Street earlier this month and explained that someone appeared to be breaking into a nearby home..." Other reports have noted that this elderly woman specifically asked Ms. Whalen if she had a phone to call the police. I find it entirely possible, especially given her calm and completely rational delivery of information to the police, that she was making the call just to reassure an agitated elderly neighborhood resident, and that had she observed this herself she wouldn't have thought anything but, "Poor guy lost his keys..." http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/07/911_caller_in_g.html The incident did not begin for Ms. Whalen with her seeing two people with suitcases trying to enter a house in broad daylight. It began, while she was on her way to lunch, when “an elderly woman stopped her on Ware Street earlier this month and explained that someone appeared to be breaking into a nearby home…” Other reports have noted that this elderly woman specifically asked Ms. Whalen if she had a phone to call the police. I find it entirely possible, especially given her calm and completely rational delivery of information to the police, that she was making the call just to reassure an agitated elderly neighborhood resident, and that had she observed this herself she wouldn’t have thought anything but, “Poor guy lost his keys…”

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