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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...
...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...
...Gates and his lawyer have said that the professor cooperated fully, providing both his Harvard identification and a drivers license to prove he lived in the home. They said the officer refused to identify himself and lured Gates out of the home to arrest...
...Haas said that the incident was less a matter of providing proper identification, however, and that Crowley made the arrest "as a last resort" after unsuccessfully trying to de-escalate the tension at the scene...