Saturday, September 06, 2008



Harvard cop fights racism charge

Must not speak firmly to blacks:
"Harvard University police officer Theresa McAuliffe has spent a decade teaching self-defense to women and patrolling the Cambridge school's hallowed grounds but now may lose her job because she's been accused of racial profiling. McAuliffe and the other officer, whose name has not been released, are on paid administrative leave but face a disciplinary hearing at which they could be fired. The pair are accused of racial profiling for an Aug. 8 incident in which they were called to a report of a man stealing a bike.

The pair went to a bike rack on campus where they found a black teenager cutting a lock off a bicycle. The officers later learned the bike belonged to the teen and that he was cutting the lock off because his key broke. The teen has since complained that he was verbally abused by the officers and says McAuliffe pointed her gun at him.

A Braintree mother of three, McAuliffe admits she and her colleague used "authoritative voices," but denies pointing her sidearm at the teen. She said she had her hand on her gun and unlocked it from its safety holster in case she had to use it. "I had it pushed forward so if I needed it it was ready," she said. "When you can't see their hands or their face, you don't know what they have. You have to assume they have a weapon."

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6 comments:

Mike S. said...

Looks like either a setup or an honest mistake as it appeared a bike was being stolen.
Of course with some people any interaction with authorities causes visions of dollar signs to dance in their heads. Especially if the authorities are white.

Anonymous said...

So a guy was found by officers cutting off a bike lock at a bike rack. Nothing suspicious there. No reason to suspect that guy was stealing the bike. Even being white I would fully expect the cops to show some serious interest in me if I was cutting off a bike lock on an college campus. I would probably call them first to make sure someone is there with me in uniform so that another student would go vigilante on me as bike theft on college campuses is a huge issue.

Anonymous said...

The police did their job correctly. This is really nothing more than a black teen pulling the race card because he can.

Anonymous said...

Living right outside of Detroit ... I see the race card played very, very often.

Anonymous said...

But for all of our arguments and logic, blacks need but to utter one word to silence us. Racist.

And we all know what the race card is and how its used, yet because of that one little word, we allow it to happen.

Anonymous said...

PC anther word for stupid