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Formed last September, the Cambridge Review Committee was tasked with preparing a set of recommendations that would address the issues that arose from Gates' July 16 arrest, which had sparked accusations against the CPD of racial bias.
On 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...
“Obviously we wanted to do as well as we could,” varsity two-seat Anthony Locke said. “We were excited to race against some of the west-coast schools, which are very strong traditionally.”
All proceeds will go to the Jimmy Fund, which supports the fight against cancer in children and adults at Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School.
The National Weather Service issued a special weather statement this morning, warning against heavy smoke in parts of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The Mass. Department of Environmental Protection also issued an air quality alert until 8 p.m. tonight.