It seems that President Obama will have to invite another cop – this time a black, female cop – to the White House for some adult beverages with Gates and Crowley on Thursday. Heck, perhaps he even want to appoint her as one of his czars. The woman who voted for Obama and now saying never again is Kelly King, also a Cambridge police officer. Here’s the black woman cop, saying never again to Obama, on CNN:
CNN’s Don Lemon: When you heard about what happened with this sergeant, what did you think?
Kelly King: I was appalled. I know Jimmy. I have known him for more than 11 years with the Cambridge police. I knew him when he worked for Harvard. I know him to be a good police officer, a good man with character, and I knew these charges were bogus. There has been a tremendous rush to judgment. And I think the thing to be learned first and foremost from this is to look at all of the evidence, to consider all, to weigh all. I think Professor Gates has done a very good job of filling up a very effective smoke screen calling race into this. It had nothing to do with it.
LEMON: Well, what about the president?
KING: Its unfortunate. I supported him; I voted for him; I will not again. I agree that I think its admirable that he would speak on behalf of his friend, but he should have recused himself. He should have stepped back and he should have said, I support my friend but I dont have all the facts. I wont weigh in yet.
LEMON: The governor?
KING: I would apply the same to him.
LEMON: What do you want the people around the country to know who may have already made up their minds about Sergeant Crowley?
KING: Keep their minds open and realize that we would not support someone that we felt wronged someone else. We took this job to do the right thing. We all took this job to do the right thing. We would not support anyone in blue doing the wrong thing.
Here is the video. Watch for yourself.