Obama’s racist remarks triggered criticism from police in the United States.

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　　China. com July 24th According to Reuters’s report on July 24th, on Wednesday night, Obama criticized the racist remarks made by the police in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, which triggered national police accusations. Gates is a well-known expert on racial issues, and Obama calls him his friend.　


　　On Wednesday (22nd), President Obama said that the police were "stupid" in response to the arrest of a black professor at Harvard University by police officer James Crowley. Gates, a famous American black scholar and professor at Harvard University, forced his way in last Thursday because his home was stuck. After receiving a report from his neighbor, the police rushed to the scene, handcuffed him and detained him, and charged him with disorderly conduct. As a result, racial disputes were caused in China. When a reporter asked whether Obama’s victory in November last year proved the progress of race relations, he pointed out that the police had been unfair to blacks and Hispanics for a long time, and that was the fact. He said: "The arrest of Gates reminds us that racial issues still hang over us."


　　Obama’ s statement immediately attracted heated discussion, and it was even more dissatisfied with the police in the United States. Jim Pascal, executive chairman of the American Police Association, said that Obama should know the truth of the incident before making this remark. When the reporter asked about the case, Obama said that he was not sure about the specific situation at the scene. Pascal said: "This is a case, and it is regrettable that he chose to speak like this. He (Obama) is not at the scene, of course, I don’t know what happened. " Pascal also said that Gates’ words and deeds seemed to be "instigators". He shouldn’t call James Crowley a racist. Police supporters said that Gates overreacted and was arrested. As an expert on African-American affairs, Gates was deeply humiliated by this experience and asked James Crowley, a police officer in Cambridge, to apologize to him. Crowley insisted on the 22nd that he had done nothing wrong in this incident and refused to apologize to Gates. Gates said in an interview with CNN on the 22nd that he might sue the Cambridge police for this matter.


　　David Howe, president of the International Association of Police Officers, said: "The president’s remarks alienated public security officials across the country." David sent a letter to Obama asking for an apology. In the letter, he said, "You can’t make comments without sufficient judgment. Your comments are tantamount to criticizing the Cambridge Police Department and police officers across the country." Crowley, the police officer involved in the incident, said that he was grateful to his department for supporting him and was not worried about being punished. Crowley said, "I won’t apologize." (Zhou Xiang)

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