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Originally Posted by Chas H
Sorry, I'm hearing impaired. Got an interview with captions?
But the cops asked Gates to go outside. If he had not done so, couldn't he be arrested for that? How can a man's home be considered a public place.
That's the bottom line of his arrest. Do you and the others supporting the action of the police believe a man's home to be a public place?
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It was an radio interview. I don't know if a text is available.
Apparently, your front porch is a public place, at least in Mass. for certain things. Seems reasonable to me that it be so. Some things you can't do on a porch that are legal inside your home.
Maybe the officer tried to entice him into following him outside, where he knew he could arrest him. Maybe. But I think Gates in the interview says the cop turned and walked away after Gates asked him his name and ID number.
Crowley walked out the door. Gates made a mistake and followed him outside onto the porch, where he, apparently, could be and was arrested for making a public disturbance.
There were plenty of witnesses to the endgame on the porch to coorborate whoever is telling the truth.
Inside my front door, no. It's my home.
I think the bottom line of this arrest is two guys with their own attitudes and bruised egos colliding. Whether the cop enticed him onto the porch with the intent to arrest him is debatable I suppose. Nothing in the officers background gives credence to this though.