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Officer Who Made ‘Jungle-Monkey’ Quip: I’m No Racist
July 30th, 2009In an apology issued Wednesday, the Boston Police officer who sent out an e-mail blast last week describing Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates as a “banana-eating jungle monkey” says he’s no racist and that he even has some Black friends. “I regret that I used such words,” Officer Justin Barrett told WCVB TV in Boston. “I have so many friends of every type of culture and race you can name. I am not a racist.” Barrett, 36, was blowing off some steam after the controversy surfaced involving the preeminent Black Harvard scholar, who was arrested at his home in Cambridge, Mass., by a White policeman who was investigating a suspected burglary. An active member of the National Guard, Barrett sent his incendiary e-mail to several fellow Guard members, and to the Boston Globe, which had run column about the arrest. In that column, Yvonne Abraham asked readers, “Would you stand for this kind of treatment, in your own home, by a police officer who by now clearly has no right to be there?” Barrett’s response, posted on a Boston television station’s Web site, was that if he had “been the officer [Gates] verbally assaulted like a banana-eating jungle monkey, I would have sprayed him in the face with OC (oleorosin capsicum, or pepper spray), deserving of his belligerent non-compliance.” During his online tirade, Barrett repeated “jungle monkey” four times. He continued, saying, “I’m not a racist but I am prejudice [sic] towards people who are stupid and pretend to stand up and preach for something they say is freedom but it is merely attention because you do not get enough of it in your little fear-dwelling circle of on-the-bandwagon followers.” Barrett’s attorney, Peter Marano, said his client was taken out of context. “Officer Barrett did not call professor Gates a jungle monkey or malign him racially,” Marano said. “He said his behavior was like that of one. It was a characterization of the actions of that man.”” Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis was convinced. He snatched Barrett’s gun and badge. The officer is now “on administrative leave, pending the outcome of a termination hearing.”
@ Sydney, you are 100% right, thats the first thing a racist says, he’s going to lose his job, any benefits he may have earned, he’ll never be on another police force again, basically his stupid racist a$$ is going to pay big for his comments, maybe it will make the next officer think differently
I don’t give a dam how many black friends he might claim he have he don’t give a dam about them. I sure hope behind this if they did know him I wouldn’t want to know him know dam more.
Need a heart transplant?
Mark 7:20-23:
20 That which proceeds out of the man, that is what defiles the man.
21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,
22 deeds of coveting and wickedness, as well as deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride and foolishness.
23 all these evil things proceed from within and defile the man.
The word rascism is not listed in these verses, but it is implied…”evil thoughts” and “pride and foolishness.”
This officer shows that he need to be in another occupation, he has poor judgement and could creat another incident in the future. He should be
FRIED!
Please! Thos liars who say that “I have friends from all races” are liars! I am a black lady, my hubby is white and he is a racist! Dont ask me how we met and why we are still together! He hides behind our marriage but I cant even watch BET and praise Obama withis his nasty attitude. Dont get me wrong, as a sister, I fight back!
@ KAMALIZA..GET RID OF YOUR HICK BEFORE IT BECOME A FULL GROWN RED PIMPLE. POP IT , SQUEEZE IT, KICK IT OUT NOW!! MY BROTHER IS IN THE SAME THING HE MARRIED A REDNECK WOMAN, SO I KNOW IT’S POSSIBLE .
Daron has said it all, what makes a person unclean is what comes out of him, The heart is decietful and what’s in a person surely always comes out. The Boston cop, meant every word that he said. The black friends are just a cover up. Like my white friends, when I’m angry and it’s about race I don’t slander the whole race, but by goosh I dog out the party that has pissed me off.
The officers sentiment represents the introspectives of the majority of white police officers whether they are prejudice, racist, are just bigoted.
kamaliza you are one of many stupid black women married to a cracker
and hes racist there is definately something wrong with your brain dont
you know its nasty sleeping with white guys i bet he got your dumb ass
doing all kinds of nasty degrading sexual acts as a black man i would
throw up at the thought of touching you them people smell like dogs.
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I’m No Racist. SURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tonyquick, what makes you better than the officer?
B.U.L.L.S.H.I.T!!!
Officer Barrett has a mouth that is dirty and vile. Her needs to go play with the pigs in the mud. His IQ is very low. He is not a part of the mainstream because hs low intelligence will not make him get along with society and therefore will fail at everything he does. HE IS A RACIST. He must think the American people are retarded. WHEN YOU CALL SOMEONE A NAME YOU ARE A RACIST!!!!!!!
Well I guess because this white man apologized we can all rest right at night. yea right nothing will happen to him and he won’t be suspended as usaul.
If you google this guy’s lawyer Peter Marano, you’ll see, surprise, surprise, that he donated money to re-elect Bush.
no comment all this stuff is crazy the monkeys and crackers and all that other stuff, yo ol man is a racist what the FU(K, well all i can say they aint wearing sheets no more they just sleeping on them