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...progress report made no explicit mention of addressing racial bias, an accusation lobbed at the CPD in the aftermath of Gates' arrest. Kosko said that addressing racial prejudice was not ??one of the issues the committee was charged with” but added that it was a "byproduct of the response to the incident.?...
Returning from China last July, Gates was arrested for disorderly conduct at his home when passer-by Lucia Whalen called police to report a possible break-in. A police report said that Gates was exhibiting ??tumultuous behavior” and accusing the police officer, Sgt. James Crowley, of prejudice, while an account of the events written on behalf of Gates in the African-American culture magazine ??The Root” said he was arrested after following Crowley outside and asking for his name and badge number...
Gates’ colleagues at Harvard sharply chided the actions of Crowley, citing racial profiling in Gates’ arrest. Evelyn B. Higginbotham, chair of the Department of African and African American Studies, wrote in an open letter that ??to be black in America brings painful situations such as what you are now experiencing.?? Mass. Governor Deval L. Patrick ??78 called the arrest ??troubling.?...
...July 21, charges were dropped against Gates, but a day later, the incident reached its pinnacle of media attention when President Barack Obama said the Cambridge Police Department ??acted stupidly,?? adding that racial profiling remained a fact of life for minorities in America. He later distanced himself from his comments, saying that he blundered in his ??choice of words,?? and invited Crowley and Gates to the White House for conversation and beer...
...??Staff writer Naveen N. Srivatsa can be reached at srivatsa@fas.harvard.edu...