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NEWS ABOUT: James Crowley

James Crowley stories: 20 news summaries
SOCIAL LUBRICANT DEPT.

 Prof. Gates, Cop Crowley 
 Have Another Round 

Pair at center of racial incident spotted at Cambridge bar

Oct 29, 09 9:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - The black college professor and the white cop at the center of a racial firestorm this summer, and who later famously had beers on the White House, were spotted last night having a round at a bar in Cambridge, Mass. Henry Louis Gates and Sgt. James Crowley chatted over suds... More »

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beer • Harvard • racial tension • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Cambridge, Mass. • James Crowley • beer summit

Gates: I Can 
Joke About 
Arrest Now 

Harvard prof kidded Cambridge cop
at White House

Aug 2, 09 5:24 PM CDT
(AP) - A black Harvard scholar said today he has been able to joke about his arrest by a white police officer that led to a national debate on race, despite receiving death threats and bomb threats. In his first public appearance since meeting with Cambridge police Sgt. James Crowley at the... More »

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racism • arrest • racial profiling • Henry Louis Gates Jr • James Crowley • Skip Gates

OPINION

Beck, Dobbs Fear the Rise of Minorities: Rich

White elites too often succumb to 'Village People populism'

Aug 2, 09 11:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - A nation bored by dreary, knotty debates about health care found relief in another National Conversation on Race. “This one,” as Frank Rich writes in the New York Times of last week’s ballyhooed Beer Summit, “ended with a burp,” but the hangover could last well... More »

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Barack Obama • race • Frank Rich • Glenn Beck • Lou Dobbs • Sonia Sotomayor • Henry Louis Gates Jr • birther • James Crowley

OPINION

Lighten Up on Presidential Gaffes

Media blowing up slips is harming political discourse: Kinsley

Jul 31, 09 9:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Saying the Cambridge police acted "stupidly" wasn't Barack Obama's first or even worst gaffe; as president-elect he mused about Nancy Reagan séances, and he still hasn't lived down his awful joke on Jay Leno. But gaffes are okay, writes Michael Kinsley in the Washington Post—we want a... More »

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Barack Obama • politics • gaffe • Henry Louis Gates Jr • James Crowley

OPINION

 Gates: 'Thank 
 God' for Cops 


But don't forget about racial profiling

Jul 31, 09 4:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - The beer meeting at the White House has come and gone, but Henry Louis Gates offers a postscript: "I thank God that I live in a country in which police officers put their lives at risk to protect us every day," he writes in the Root, where he... More »

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Barack Obama • race • police • race relations • racial profiling • Henry Louis Gates Jr • James Crowley

(Newser) - Turns out the president was right: the beer summit was pretty boring. In fact, it wasn't even the first time Skip Gates and Officer Crowley had gotten together after the arrest. "Even before we sat down for the beer, I learned that the two gentlemen spent some time together... More »

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police • race relations • Cambridge • President Obama • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Cambridge, Mass. • James Crowley

(Newser) - It's happy hour at the White House. President Obama, Joe Biden, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and James Crowley are clinking beer glasses in the White House Rose Garden, but alas, the media isn't invited to listen in. Earlier, the president sought to tamp down expectations, noting that he's "fascinated... More »

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police • White House • beer • race relations • President Obama • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Cambridge, Mass. • James Crowley

(Newser) - President Obama's next round of peacemaking beers at the White House might have to include US brewery owners, reports the Wall Street Journal. The cooling off confab today will be providing busted Harvard Prof. Henry Louis Gates and cop James Crowley's favorite brews Red Stripe and Blue Moon, and some... More »

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White House • beer • Budweiser • brewery • President Obama • Henry Louis Gates Jr • James Crowley

Boston Cop Suspended
After Racial Slur on Gates

Calls him 'jungle monkey' in email

Jul 29, 09 5:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - The fallout from the Henry Louis Gates arrest continues: A Boston cop has been suspended for referring to Gates as a "jungle monkey" in an email, the Globe reports. Officer Justin Barrett, 36, faces a disciplinary hearing next week and could be fired. He used the phrase while describing... More »

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Boston • race relations • Cambridge • racial slurs • Boston Police Department • Henry Louis Gates Jr • James Crowley

Gates, Crowley Share Irish Ancestor

Better make that
White House beer
a Guinness

Jul 29, 09 9:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - The beer James Crowley and Henry Louis Gates have with the president should be a Guinness if genetics are anything to go by, Irish Central reports. The Harvard professor and the Cambridge cop—along with about 3 million other people—are distant cousins with shared Irish heritage, both descended from... More »

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Ireland • Irish • Irish Americans • ancestry • Henry Louis Gates Jr • James Crowley

A President, a Prof, and a Cop Walk Into the White House ...

Trio will have that beer Thursday evening

Jul 27, 09 9:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama has set a date for a conciliatory beer with a Cambridge police sergeant and the Harvard professor he arrested, ABC News reports. James Crowley and Henry Louis Gates will visit the White House Thursday for a frosty brew and some racial reconciliation. On the menu, according to CNN,... More »

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White House • beer • race relations • Budweiser • President Obama • Harvard University • Red Stripe • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Cambridge, Mass. • James Crowley • Beck's • Blue Moon

 Cops Release 
 Gates Arrest Tapes 

Officer calls for more cars; 911 caller unsure on men's race

Jul 27, 09 1:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - In audio from the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr, released today by Cambridge police, the arresting officer tells the dispatcher to “keep the cars coming” as he faces an “uncooperative” suspect, the Boston Herald reports. An earlier tape reveals the 911 call in the case, in which... More »

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race • police • 911 call • arrest • professor • tape • Harvard • racial profiling • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Cambridge, Mass. • James Crowley • Lucia Whalen

the backstory

Gates and Crowley: Unlikely Sparks for Racial Fireworks


Jul 27, 09 8:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - A closer look at Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley, and the details of what transpired between them, leads the New York Times to find them the unlikeliest of men to have sparked a racially heated debate. Contrary to earlier reports, Crowley, a diversity trainer praised for his... More »

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race relations • racism • town and gown • Henry Louis Gates Jr • James Crowley

(Newser) - Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the Cambridge cop who arrested him both say they will take up President Obama on his offer to have a beer at the White House. "It is time for all of us to move on, and to assess what we can learn from this... More »

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African Americans • race relations • Massachusetts • Harvard • President Obama • police action • Henry Louis Gates Jr • James Crowley

(Newser) - Just how reasonable was Sgt. James Crowley being when he arrested Skip Gates for mouthing off to him? The New York Times asks a wide range of cops how they handle abuse in the field, and got a range of responses. “If you don’t have a tough... More »

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police • disorderly conduct • Henry Louis Gates Jr • James Crowley • Skip Gates

UPDATED

Obama Regrets 'Acted Stupidly' Jab at Cops

Prez: I could have 'calibrated' remarks on Gates arrest differently

Jul 24, 09 2:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama today backpedaled from his comment that the Massachusetts police who arrested Henry Louis Gates Jr. “acted stupidly,” the New York Times reports. In an unannounced appearance at the daily White House briefing, Obama said he “could have calibrated” his words more carefully in speaking on... More »

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African Americans • police • race relations • President Obama • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Cambridge, Mass. • James Crowley

(Newser) - Massachusetts police unions today called on President Obama, Gov. Deval Patrick, and others to apologize for criticizing the cops who arrested Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, the Boston Globe reports. “The president should make an apology to all law-enforcement personnel throughout the entire country,” said one Cambridge policeman.... More »

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Barack Obama • police • union • racial profiling • President Obama • Henry Louis Gates Jr • James Crowley • Skip Gates

 Cop Who Arrested Gates 
 Teaches Racial-Profiling Class 

Sgt. James Crowley's class instructs recruits not to 'single people out because of ethnic background'

Jul 23, 09 3:33 PM CDT
(AP) - The white police sergeant criticized by President Barack Obama for arresting black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his Massachusetts home is a police-academy expert on racial profiling. Cambridge Sgt. James Crowley has taught a class on racial profiling for 5 years at the Lowell Police Academy after being hand-picked... More »

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African Americans • scholar • arrest • Harvard • racial profiling • President Obama • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Cambridge, Mass. • James Crowley

Mass. Cop Won't Fault Obama Over 'Acted Stupidly' Jab

But prez should get the facts on Gates bust first

Jul 23, 09 11:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Asked if he blamed President Obama for saying he’d “acted stupidly” in arresting Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Cambridge Sgt. James Crowley took the high road, the Boston Globe reports. He told a radio show today it was “regrettable” that anyone would speak without knowing the “... More »

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Barack Obama • race • race relations • Harvard • racial profiling • President Obama • Henry Louis Gates Jr • James Crowley

(Newser) - The Cambridge cop who arrested Henry Louis Gates Jr. said yesterday that he won't be giving the Harvard professor the apology he demands. Sgt. James Crowley, whose run-in with Gates began when he responded to a neighbor's report of a break-in at the professor's home, denies the arrest had anything... More »

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police • arrest • Harvard • racial profiling • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Cambridge, Mass. • James Crowley

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