On Gates/Crowley
~by jfxgillis
One thing we learned yesterday….
At 18:10 of the WEEI interview 7/23, Sergeant Crowley says:
One of my first radio broadcasts after I was in the residence was, really my intent was to slow the responding units down because as you can imagine a crime-in-progress call like that does get a tremendous response from the Cambridge police department because we have the luxury of having a lot of resources. I wanted to make sure that nobody was going to either hurt themselves or hurt somebody else in trying to respond not only to investigate this call but to assist me because they presumably knew I was there. So one of my first transmissions was to slow the units down, and I’m in the residence with somebody I believe resides here but is being very uncooperative.
At 1:35 of the excerpt or radio transmissions released 7/27, Crowley says:
I’m up with a gentleman who says he resides here but [awful?] uncooperative. Keep the cars coming.
You can pretty much tell that in his interview he’s referring to that transmission because the quote of himself is very accurate with respect to “resides here” and “[very] uncooperative.”
Now. Otherwise. What’s the difference between what Crowley said he said while Dennis and Callahan were worshiping him, and what the transmissions shows he actually said?
I should add that believe it or not, I don’t think Crowley lied to WEEI. I think that by the time a week had gone by without access to the transmissions or transcripts, his memory highlighted the way he’d hoped that the transmission would slow the responding units down, and had obscured or discarded the way it’s obvious the transmission sped things up.
I think what he thought at the time was that he wanted the units to slow down, because the situation seemed controllable, but he wanted them to “Keep …. coming” because he already knew at that moment that he was going drag Gates out in handcuffs and he wanted to ensure an audience of sympathetic witnesses.Report
” and he wanted to ensure an audience of sympathetic witnesses.”
Or an embarrassing spectacle of police cars out front, the better to make Gates look like a fool.Report
Everybody concerned sees it as a chance to use it for their personal agenda., it doesn’t matter what that is. They are NOT concerned to find the truth, & that includes the President.Report