ext_290184 ([identity profile] el-christador.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] sophiaserpentia 2009-07-23 08:12 pm (UTC)

Really? Because the police report paints the picture that the police were done with the encounter and were going "ok, bye now" and Gates was the one who was interested in pursuing it and continued haranguing the police office while the police officer wanted to leave the house. Then the police officer left and Gates followed them outside.

That is, there's nothing in the police report to suggest anything other than that the police's wish was to leave as soon as they had verified there was no break-in. They were a little confused because when they showed up saying they were responding to a report of a break-in, Gates said 'that's impossible', indicating that the 911 call was either a fabrication or a hoax and that he knew that there had been no recent forced entry to the house, even though he was fully aware that he had just made a forced entry. If not strictly a lie, it's clearly deceitful. And it understandably puzzles the police when the front door is broken open and the guy in the house is telling you that there's certainly been nothing like that going on and he can't imagine why people were reporting that people were breaking through the front door (when in fact he knows perfectly well why people were reporting that people were breaking through the front door because he just did it himself).

Then he flew into a bizarre and puzzling incoherent uncontrolled rage, kept demanding the badge number after it had been supplied to him already, and pursued the police when they went 'ok, well, thank you...we're done here, we're going now'.

Or at least, that's the police version (except for the part about Gates' saying 'that's impossible' in regard to the report of people breaking through the front door, which is his own account).

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