Reply #182: If he hadn't followed Crowley outside, refusing to stop raging, he wouldn't have been arrested [View All]

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"You don't know who (sic) you're dealing with!"

Obviously, after being repeatedly being called a racist and having complied with giving his name and badge number to Gates, Crowley didn't satisfy Gates as he was leaving the premises.

The truth is NOT open to conjecture, though: Crowley left the place walked down the stairs to the street, repeatedly warned Gates to stop his fusillade of abuse, warned him that arrest would be the result of continuing it, and THEN arrested him.

Silly me; I'd think that repeatedly calling someone a racist, threatening to bring some form of complaint against him, and reminding him that one is really IMPORTANT would be enough to slake even the thirstiest ego. Apparently I'm wrong.

If he hadn't followed Crowley outside and refused to stop yelling at him in public, he wouldn't have been arrested. I'm not making this up, and this isn't hypothetical. Crowley had left the premises and walked down the stairs to the street. Gates was inconvenienced, but he wasn't being arrested. For refusing to obey an officer of the law in public who was asking him to stop creating a disturbance, he was arrested. The officer had every LEGAL right to enter the house when investigating a potential break-in.

One has a cosmic right to rage and scream at cops, and they have the cosmic and legal right to arrest you when it's done in public. Crowley even warned him; it wasn't done immediately.