<p>Police</a> Drop Charges Against Black Scholar - WSJ.com</p>
<p>It's really sad, the conclusions our society draws based on race. My question is... who called the cops? One would think his neighbors would know who he is right?</p>
<p>I think I might have heard a short blurb about this. I could be wrong but I heard this guy (the professor) was really aggressive and wouldn’t allow the cop to answer any of the questions he asked. Like when the officer was telling the man his name and badge number the professor just started yelling again. But just like you said, society shouldn’t jump to conclusions based on race. Just because the professor was black and the officer was white we should not judge to the conclusion that the officer was racist. Maybe the professor was aggressive and it was the professor’s actions rather than his skin color that led to his arrest. So bdl108, before you condemn the officer as a racist (or the person who justifiably called the cops) take your own advice and don’t jump to conclusions based on the race of the participants.</p>
<p>Typical race card puller</p>
<p>Bleck.</p>
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<p>BTW this is probably in the wrong section.</p>
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<p>[‘Beg</a> My Forgiveness,’ Gates Tells Cambridge Cop - Boston News Story - WCVB Boston](<a href=“http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/20136545/detail.html]'Beg”>http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/20136545/detail.html)</p>
<p>A man was prying at a house door late a night. A concerned neighbor calls the cops, the cops show up. The man refuses to provide identification.</p>
<p>What exactly do you expect the police to do? Stand and watch the man break into a house with no proof of ownership?</p>
<p>Get over yourselves, jesus.</p>
<p>^^A distinguished, award-winning professor enters his OWN HOME in broad daylight (not middle of the night). But he has trouble getting the door open, and a neighbor sees him trying to get in and assumes since he is black he must be a robber and calls the cops. Cops show up and make the same assumption and enter the house without invitation and without a warrant and demand he show ID and prove that it’s his house. Man understandably gets irate at the intrusion into his house and obvious racial assumptions in play here and berates the cop. What exactly do you expect the man to do?</p>
<p>Instead of apologizing for the error and going away, cop escalates the issue by arresting the professor on a disorderly behavior charge knowing full well that he is the main cause of the disorder himself. Embarrassed police department drops the charges the next day. Get over yourselves.</p>
<p>Whether it’s the middle of the night or broad daylight is irrelevant. </p>
<p>Again, a man is trying to pry open a door. If he was white the cops would have been called just the same.
Cop shows up and asks for ID.
Professor responds with an aggressive attitude and implies racism when there is none.
Cop arrests man for harassing officer and failing to provide identification.
Police department drops charges because of PEOPLE LIKE YOU who cry racism every time a minority is in the wrong.</p>
<p>Yeah because people OBVIOUSLY called the cops on him cause he was black… /sarcasm</p>
<p>The D.A. wisely exercised discretion and dropped the charges because he didn’t want a media field day.</p>
<p>Al Sharpton all over the news. ALL OVER THE NEWS. Imagine that.</p>
<p>Doesn’t “disorderly behavior” have to be in a public venue?</p>
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<p>and even given that account by a renowned scholar, you’ll still have morons crying race card. because we all know that accounts given by the police could never be exaggerated.</p>
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<p>This is wrong. Gates provided his ID.</p>
<p>Check out this thread in the Parent Cafe <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/750372-harvard-professor-henry-louis-gates-arrested.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/750372-harvard-professor-henry-louis-gates-arrested.html</a></p>
<p>The conclusion was that the cop was acting out of line. By the way, it is rather telling that a lot of you, when confronted with evidence of racism, immediately pull out the tired “it’s fabricated. race card! race card!” argument.</p>
<p>^^ Thank you – some rational thought in this thread.</p>
<p>People who claim almost impulsively “RACE CARD!!11!” to undermine the very real realities of racism/discrimination that still occur in 2009 are sheltered and delusional. In fact, doing that is as bad (if not worse), than those who do claim the race card for supposed gain.</p>
<p>I just noticed, and think it is rather humorous, that ‘race car’ spelled backwards is ‘race car.’</p>
<p>Just saying</p>
<p>Maybe it would have been better if the prof had just busted caps into each of the cops for the intrusion?</p>