Friday, July 24, 2009
From Fox News
BOSTON — Many police officers across the country have a message for President Barack Obama Get all the facts before criticizing one of our own. Obama's public criticism that Cambridge officers "acted stupidly" when they arrested black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. could make it harder for police to work with people of color, some officers said Thursday.
It could even set back the progress in race relations that helped Obama become the nation's first African-American president, they said.
"What we don't need is public safety officials across the country second-guessing themselves," said David Holway, president of the International Brotherhood of Police Officers, which represents 15,000 public safety officials around the country. "The president's alienated public safety officers across the country with his comments."
The Cambridge Police Patrol Officer's Association president also strongly criticized the president's remarks in an interview with The Huffington Post.
"That was totally inappropriate. I am disgraced that he is our commander-in-chief," Stephen Killion said. "He smeared the good reputation of the hard-working men and women of the Cambridge Police Department. It was wrong to do. It was disgraceful," the web site quoted him as saying. From Fox News. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
So much for thinking before you speak President Obama. His words can put law enforcement at risk. Who in the world will trust a Police Officer now if even the President calls them stupid. That's the way to united the American People and keep them safe. President Obama should have never spoken on something that he said he did not have all the facts to. That should have warned him right there to keep his mouth shut, but I hope now that everyone can see his true colors, THE REAL OBAMA came out... By 2 The Extreme
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