We reported on Sunday that New York Time reporter Charles Blow was “fuming” after his son, an undergraduate at Yale University, was stopped by police after exiting a library because he fit the description of a suspect in a string of campus burglaries.
And the usual lib suspects reacted as you’d expect:
Charles Blow: At Yale, the Police Detained My Son http://t.co/XqQrkzSDbD This is why DeBlasio told his son Dante: Be careful near police.
— Howard Dean (@GovHowardDean) January 26, 2015
Racial inequity in law enforcement: A cop draws gun on black Yale student–the son of my colleague @CharlesMBlow http://t.co/NeQcohDTlh
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) January 26, 2015
Charles Blow's black son was held at gunpoint by Yale police — and he's furious about it: http://t.co/1NDrKB07R9 pic.twitter.com/oGFI2bHB2k
— Vox (@voxdotcom) January 26, 2015
Blow wrote about the incident for the NYT on Monday, but left out one tiny detail from this detailed account. The officer that stopped his son was also black:
Race Matters: NY Times Columnist Charles Blow Omits His Son Detained by (Black) Cop at Yale http://t.co/I8Gdj0XCcN
— NewsBusters (@newsbusters) January 28, 2015
An excerpt from Blow’s piece:
Now, don’t get me wrong: If indeed my son matched the description of a suspect, I would have had no problem with him being questioned appropriately. School is his community, his home away from home, and he would have appreciated reasonable efforts to keep it safe. The stop is not the problem; the method of the stop is the problem.
Why was a gun drawn first? Why was he not immediately told why he was being detained? Why not ask for ID first?
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Keep in mind, as we reported on Sunday, the Yale police were answering a 911 call that had reported the suspect — who was arrested later that night — in the area. And as we wrote on Sunday, we still don’t “see what exactly the cops did wrong.”
Yale is a wonderful school in the high-crime city of New Haven, Conn. If Blow wants to blame somebody for what happened with his son, maybe he should start with the criminals and not the very people who are there to keep his son safe.
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