Saturday, August 01, 2009

Professor Gates sends flowers to woman who called the police

Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. has sent a bouquet of flowers and a note to the woman whose 911 call led to his arrest earlier this month.

Wendy Murphy, lawyer and spokeswoman for Lucia Whalen, said today that Gates had sent her client a bouquet of flowers as an "expression of gratitude.''

Murphy said she believed it was a bouquet of tulips. The flowers came with a note from Gates, the contents of which Murphy would not disclose."[Whalen] said that she really appreciated it,'' Murphy said. "She's been getting a lot of apologies and people have been saying nice things."Read on.

1 comment:

KittyBowTie1 said...

Well, good. If someone thought a person was breaking into my house and they called the police, I would be grateful that someone try to watch out for my property.

I bet things probably would have been different had Professor Gates not been sick and jet lagged from the trip to China.