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Update: Boston Globe Now Posts Redacted Revised Docket On Gates

by Rhonda J Mangus | July 24, 2009 at 04:35 am

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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 certainly is since it has redacted out almost the entire narrative section of the original report."

To read the full narrative, check out the original police report.

As allegations mount that the Racial Profiling Debate was triggered by Obama's comments on Prof Gates, NewsBusters author P.J. Gladnick reports the Boston Globe Scrubs Henry Louis Gates Arrest Report From Website.

That Cambridge, MA police report presents such a damning picture of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates when he was arrested that an embarrassed Boston Globe felt it had to scrub it from its website after initially posting the report. The Globe published an article about the Gates arrest written by Tracy Jan which does refer to the police report but, unfortunately, you can no longer read the full report on the Boston Globe site since it has been removed by that newspaper.

Continue reading here for some excerpts from the Boston Globe that do refer to the deleted police report.

View the Cambridge Police Department Incident Report, here.

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Albert Milliron

at 14:09 on July 24th, 2009

Rhonda, I saw that they did that. Not sure if that is appropriate for a Press agency

Rhonda J Mangus

at 21:22 on July 24th, 2009

politisite, thank you! I have to wonder now why the Boston Globe decided to re-post a redacted copy of the police report?? What's their point?

Rowz (not verified)

at 09:15 on July 25th, 2009

Having read the pdf of the arrest report, I believe that Prof. Gates fell victim to "Police entrapment."

"Entrapment" being the act of a law enforcement agent inducing a person to commit an offense which would be illegal and the person would otherwise have been unlikely to commit.

-- Crowley's call brought the crowd, who were "alarmed" because they did not know what they were witnessing.

-- Crowley invited Gates to come talk to him on the porch (so he would be in public)

-- Crowley dangled the cuffs in front of Gates

-- All of which "induced" Gates to exhibit loud and "tumultuous" behavior in front of an "alarmed" crowd.