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| US cops' union wants Obama to apolo |
| US cops' union wants Obama to apologise
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 25-July-2009
2:20:6 AM |
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President Barack Obama has been urged by American police unions to tender an apology after he accused an officer of “acting stupidly” by arresting leading Black scholar, Professor Henry Louis Gates.
Police representatives queued up at a press conference to insist race had played no part in the incident and the president should retract his “disgraceful” comments and apologise to Sgt James Crowley, The Telegraph reports.
However, Obama refused to apologise at a hastily arranged White House press conference where he said: “In my choice of words, I unfortunately gave the impression that I was maligning the Cambridge Police Department or Sergeant Crowley specifically.”
Obama criticised police earlier this week after the incident involving Professor Gates who was arrested after trying to force a jammed front door at his home near Harvard University.
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