Excellent article, Larry, thank you.
Of course, we heard a politically gainful version of this story last night from someone we already know can't be trusted to tell us the truth about anything...especially when it comes with the chance of further instilling class warfare and racial divisiveness.
However, there's one crucial point I must bring to your attention. We know who the uncooperative man ( Gates ) was now but, the cops didn't at the time and they obviously weren't going to find out from him any other place than the police station.
If they had left and found out later that the man was not the resident of the home where his behavior was merely a ruse to avoid arrest ( as if that isn't tried across the country every single day ) and the articulable fact the front door was in fact damaged from an apparent break-in, those officers would, at the very least, be formally reprimanded and possibly suspended without pay...even fired for being too stupid to protect and serve.
By taking the totally uncooperative man into custody they were able to positively identify him and he was released to return to his home. THIS is exactly how police must act under such circumstances. To do otherwise would be to further deny a semblance of reason and reality which would merely add to the same type of insanity as hiring police based on gender, race and preferred sexual deviant behavior.
Therefore, the officers in this particular incident were absolutely correct in every possible way you've reported it here today and we've also learned that the only places the race card receives the intended yet woefully wrongful attention is from video clips not showing the complete story, Supreme court nominees with a racial agenda, the mainstream media chasing sensationalism and distrusted candidates still running for elected offices that they've already won.
Thank you again.

It's nice the cop gave you a break, Elder. I sure don't know what that has to do with anything. That fact is, that Cambridge cop arrested Gates for breaking into his own home. His own home, Elder. Gates was HOME, get it? Your home is your castle. He was not obligated to be professional and rational. He was home. The Cambridge cop was on duty. HE was the one who was supposed to be professional and rational, not the guy in his own home tired and returning from a long time away. Looks like the great trainer has difficulty practicing what he preaches, since apparently his training is so wonderfully sensitive to racial profiling and other areas where cops typically fall prey to bad decision-making.

This is the guy who trains other cops to respond professionally to provocation, which especially ought to be anticipated when a cop is invading someone's own private property. And no, the fact that Gates had apparently been subject to a break in before is not any more relevant than your nice cop story. And the fact that the Cambridge cop was responding to a report of a break-in doesn't excuse a thing. He's supposed to investigate these kinds of things, not jump to conclusions. Investigating is what cops do. What if the person was calling in that "break in" as a prank? The fact is that the Cambridge cop got pissed off at Gates' response and lost his cool. He not only lost his cool, but even when he had the information to figure out he was arresting a man for entering his own home, he went ahead and did it anyway. "I'll show that blankity blank you-know-what," must have been circulating deliciously in his mind as he did the deed. I don't know if if was racial profiling or not. I'm white and I've seen plenty of stupid behavior by white cops, and what this cop did, as President observed in a rare moment of candor, was indeed stupid. He might well have done the same thing to a white person, and it would have been just as stupid. Pull your head out of your butt, Elder. You're just like that cop. You've got enough information to remove any doubt you're going down the wrong path, but you just can't resist your urge to crap all over those you want to think of as the enemy.

By the way, Elder. You were driving a car, in a public place. You were operating an instrumentality that could kill somebody. You damn well should have been polite to the cop who stopped you, especially since you broke the law and you knew it. Think about it.

The fact that you liken that situation to that of a man entering his own home who broke no law is testament to how much your bias clouds your judgment.

By the way, Elder. You were driving a car, in a public place. You were operating an instrumentality that could kill somebody. You damn well should have been polite to the cop who stopped you, especially since you broke the law and you knew it. Think about it.
The fact that you liken that situation to that of a man entering his own home who broke no law is testament to how much your bias clouds your judgment.

Don't get Rodney kinged!!

What if you didn't live at that address? No telling!