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UPDATED 5:38 P.M. President Barack Obama conceded Friday that he had erred in his "choice of words" in criticizing the Cambridge Police Department for arresting Harvard professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. last week.
Nevertheless, Obama stopped short of a full apology, saying that "I continue to believe, based on what I have heard, that there was an overreaction in pulling professor Gates out of his home and to the station. I also continue to believe, based on what I heard, that professor Gates...
O'Connor said that Obama and Mass. Gov. Deval L. Patrick '78, who has criticized the arrest calling it "every black man's nightmare," should have declined to comment on the matter, especially since they noted that they were friends with Gates and did not know all the facts. O...
Obama on Gates.
"Let me be clear, he was not calling the officer stupid," Gibbs told reporters as Obama landed in Cleveland for two health care events Thursday. He said Obama felt that "at a certain point the situation got far out of hand" at Gates' home last week.