The police officer who arrested Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. for disorderly conduct and who was called "stupid" by the Messiah for doing so, Sergeant James Crowley, happens to be the local police academy's expert on racial profiling "after being hand-picked for the job by former police Commissioner Ronny Watson, who is black".
Based on the coverage we've seen of the incident, it sure appears as if Gates completely overreacted to a perfectly reasonable request, and most likely genuinely earned his arrest for absolutely losing his cool that night. What's ironic is we'd bet that Mr. Gates would be first in line to sue the department had they not taken the possible burglary call seriously and declined to check it out, you know, "because Gates is black".
"Crowley, 42, has maintained he did nothing wrong and has refused to apologize, as Gates has demanded."
Good for him for sticking to his principles. In today's (thankfully) rapidly emerging post-racial society, reflexively crying race just because someone, even a highly educated someone, had a bad night and behaved like a complete jerk just isn't going to wash anymore.
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They were both in the wrong. Gates for pulling the tired "racism" card and the officer for pulling the bogus "disorderly conduct" card. The man was on his own property, if the cop wants respect he should go home and pet his dog.
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