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Originally Posted by Richard
And so it goes...
Richard 
Harvard Professor, Officer 'Missed Opportunities' To Ease Clash
USAToday, 30 June 2010
Six to eight seconds into their chance encounter last year, a Cambridge, Mass., police sergeant and a prominent black Harvard professor became hardened adversaries who did not recognize "multiple opportunities" to ease a confrontation that triggered a national debate on racial profiling.
A review of the July 16 incident, which later landed both men at the White House for a meeting with President Obama, concluded Wednesday that Sgt. James Crowley and Professor Henry Louis Gates were equally at fault for escalating a routine police call that ended in Gates' arrest.
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I don't agree...... and I think that article is pure bullshit.
There's a few in our society that you do not want to escalate an issue and that short list includes individuals with guns.....morons & idiots escalate issues with armed individuals, be it cop or bad guy.
I have little doubt the professor has a chip on his shoulder the size of a redwood tree and thought he would take it out on the police officer, didn't work in this case.
I also have little doubt that had it been a white guy on the professors front porch that Sgt. James Crowley would have done the same thing had the individual decided to "esclate" the issue.