Cambridge police Sgt. James Crowley, left, stands with Sgt. Leon Lashley, right, as police from various unions hold a news conference in Cambridge, Mass. Friday, July 24, 2009 to express support for Crowley in connection to the incident in which he arrested Harvard Prof. Lewis Gates at his home. Sgt. Lashley, who was with Crowley at the scene of the arrest, later said he supports "100 percent" how Crowley handled the situation.
Obama says: "My sense is you've got two good people in a circumstance in which neither of them were able to resolve the incident in a way that it should have been resolved."