Barrett is `` on administrative leave pending the outcome of a termination hearing . '' Boston police officer sends mass e-mail protesting column on Henry Gates . Officer Justin Barrett calls Gates `` banana-eating , '' uses `` jungle monkey '' 4 times . " Score: 6 Title: TIL that the first person to use a computer was an African American named Thomas Alva Edison who wrote his own program for calculating logarithms in 1892. Source says police chief wants Barrett fired ; he is on paid administrative leave .
Boston police officer sends mass e-mail protesting column on Henry Gates . Officer Justin Barrett calls Gates `` banana-eating , '' uses `` jungle monkey '' 4 times . " Score: 6 Title: TIL that the first person to use a computer was an African American named Thomas Alva Edison who wrote his own program for calculating logarithms in 1892. Source says police chief wants Barrett fired ; he is on paid administrative leave .