Today, at 6pm EDT, President Obama will welcome Harvard Professor Heny Louis Gates Jr and Sergeant Jame Crowley to the White House. Sergeant Crowley arrested Gates earlier this month for disorderly conduct...
Police apparently lied or accidentally included patently false facts in their written reports after the Gates-gate incident when they said they had received a report that two Black men were trying to force the door of a house. The woman who made the report, Lucia Whalen,...
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Was President Obama ever a victim of racial profiling? "Not in any major way, say those close to him, but he certainly feels there have been times he was treated differently because of his race." " However...
Update Saturday July 25, 2009 12:58 AM EST"The Boston Globe has now posted what it calls a redacted revised docket although it is described as a "police report" at the left side link on its site. And redacted it...
Race and racial profiling seems to be front and centre after President Obama commented on the actions of the Cambridge Police Department when asked about the arrest of a black Harvard professor. As it turned out...
Sgt. James Crowley, a 42-year-old police officer with the Cambridge Police Department, arrested prominent black scholar and Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. outside his home on July 16 and charged...