• Smoking Gun
Here is the police report detailing the confrontation
between Harvard professor Henry Gates and Cambridge cops,
who were condemned by President Barack Obama for acting
"stupidly" in arresting the African-American scholar. Cops responded to
Gates's house after neighbor Lucia Whalen reported spotting "two black
males with backpacks" trying to gain entry to the home (Gates,
returning home from a trip overseas, and his driver were contending
with a stuck front door). The Cambridge Police Department reports,
authored by Sergeant James Crowley and Officer James Figueroa, quote an
incensed Gates yelling, "This is what happens to black men in
America!," and, when asked by Crowley to speak with him outside the
residence, Gates replied, "ya, I'll speak with your mama outside." A
disorderly conduct rap was filed against Gates, but quickly dropped by
prosecutors. Gates is reportedly considering legal action against the
Cambridge polic
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