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What Happend at the Gates Residence?

By Michael Blankenship

By now most people are aware of the events that took place at the Cambridge home of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates. A person in the neighborhood (not a neighbor) saw two black men trying to force open a door and called police. Gates was returning home from an overseas trip and could not open the door to his home. Police arrived, a confrontation arose, and Gates was arrested for creating a public disturbance. The charges were almost immediately dropped.Washington PostL.A. TimesL.A. TimesNY TimesNY TimesLots has been made of President Obama's response to a question from a reporter during his Wednesday night speech on heath insurance reform.Here are some of the facts: (1) President Obama acknowledged that he did not know if race was a factor in the arrest of Gates; (2) he did say the arrest was stupid; and (3) race is a factor in confrontations between police and people of color in this country...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Justice Gambit on July 24, 2009 (boomark / email).