Bill Cosby reacts to Gates incident

Comedian/actor Bill Cosby was inside the FOX25 News studios today and shared his thoughts on the arrest of prominent black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. and President Barack Obama's "stupidity" comment about police.

TRANSCRIPT:

Gene Lavanchy: I want to first start to get your reaction to the President’s comments last night about the Harvard arrested at his home, Cambridge police, etc and how much you’ve been following this story

Bill Cosby:  My answer, my first answer, is that I wasn’t there. The second answer is that I think both parties need to be treated in a way that they would both come together in the same room and begin to think about what they’re both saying, because this, racially, is something that need not take off and look and feel the way it’s beginning to look and feel.

I think that if both parties would realize that they would be huge, huge human beings and tell exactly what happened, nobody would have to apologize. But I think that people who have not been there, people who don’t know, are beginning to have their own personal feelings which, they weren’t there.

 
Gene Lavanchy:  Would that include the President in that?

 
Bill Cosby:   Well it would include everybody. Now, the one thing about whatever the President said is that I have to take into consideration that he lived in Cambridge for some time. So, he may know more than he’s saying about situations of that sort.

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