Cop, union: Obama shouldn’t have weighed in [View All]

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Source: Boston Herald

Cop, union: Obama shouldn’t have weighed in
By Laura Crimaldi
Thursday, July 23, 2009 - Updated 0m ago

The head of a state police union called President Obama’s prime-time scolding of the Cambridge police force “regrettable” and said officers are expressing “outrage.”

The cop in the center of the national uproar said today he’s also disappointed at the president.

“I support the president of the United States 110 percent. I think he was way off base wading into a local issue without knowing all the facts as he himself stated before he made that comment,” Cambridge Sgt. James Crowley told WEEI-AM today.

Union members say they are backing Crowley.

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