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...Haas also revealed new information at the press conference today, noting that Gates' home had previously been broken into, before the arrest, while the professor was away. He said that he was not exactly sure when the break-in took place, and that it had been investigated by Harvard University Police Department...
Tensions surrounding last week's arrest of black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. escalated sharply Wednesday, with the officer involved unequivocally denying any wrongdoing while Gates forcefully called for an apology and U.S. President Barack Obama chastised Cambridge police on national television for arresting the professor."I think [the officer] owes me an apology for what he did," Gates told a Boston television reporter Tuesday night. "He should look into his heart and know that he is not telling the truth and he should beg my forgiveness." Gates has raised the possibility of filing a lawsuit over the arrest.Obama...
Cambridge Police Department Commissioner Robert C. Haas announced at a press conference this afternoon that the Department would be assembling a panel of "independent notable professionals" in coming days to review and analyze the controversial arrest of black Harvard Professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. at his own home last Thursday...
...incident—including from President Barack Obama—and added that the department took its professionalism seriously. He said that such attention is "not the kind of notoriety we want to come to this city," and maintained that Sergeant James Crowley, the officer who made the arrest, had done nothing wrong in his handling of the incident...
...enforcement protocol," he said. "I do not believe that his actions were in any way racially motivated." Instead, Haas said that Crowley had "assessed the situation, tried to de-escalate the situation, and made a determination that the only way to stop the situation was to make an arrest...