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Originally Posted by Icemaster
What's the story?
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Professor Gates is famous for his studies of the Black experience in America. He is a chaired prof. at Harvard and has his own Institute there. The Academic Cheese does not get any bigger than that.
http://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/faculty/henry_louis_gates_jr/index.html
He apparently committed the crime of Inadequate KowTow to a Cop...
... while in his own home, or at least on his own property. Some details differ in the accounts.
The DA dropped charges. I'm sure Gates will sue and no doubt will win big.
It is a terrible advertisement for Cambridge, its police dept. and by extension the whole country. Too bad, as we were just basking in the warm foreign affairs glow of Obamaism.