Today is the day that Sgt. James Crowley, Prof. Henry Gates, and President Obama have a beer together to try to reconcile over the arrest of Prof. Gates. And there is now a discussion going on about the choices of beers being served - does that really matter?
But back to the main issue of this posting, I am getting tired of the media playing clips of people saying how shameful it was for Sgt. Crowley to arrest this 55 year old man who gets around on a cane, blah, blah, blah. Reports from witnesses stated that Gates had no problem walking without a cane when he as berating Sgt. Crowley outside of the house.
Even if he did need to use a cane, hell, if he had to use a wheelchair, SO WHAT? Does that mean that we should never arrest disabled people? How about old people, should they be immune from arrest as well? Age, race, disability, religion, sex, sexual preference - none of that should come into play into asking whether or not someone was rightfully arrested. The only question at hand should be did they break the law? Let a judge or a jury decided that even though they broke the law, it wasn't so eggregious as to needing to punish the person. Let the law enforcement officer just worry about whether or not a law was broken. KISS.
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