oh my... aren't you the guy that argued hours with the sexy girl bot? nuff said

he's lucky he wasn't arrested when he refused to go outside or when he refused to show his ID... oh ya he gave a harvard ID first.

Can't we all just get along...? lol

Yes. He did. That is what you fail to comprehend.

That's nonsense.

If a person maintains an attitude of unruly conduct even after they identify themselves, then the officer STILL has reason to arrest.

Note that Officer Crowley is being supported by other officers who were at the scene...100%

Prominent Black professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. arrested for entering own home while Black?? :helpme

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/21...9072101803.jpg

Gates said: "This is what happens to black men in America."

sometimes shit just happens, coincidences cross tracks and outcome is inevitable and never as expected...
i dont think this is a big deal and i think Obama should have pledged the 5th when asked to comment in the situation during a "speech to the nation" related to the financial state of the union.
The reporter who asked him to comment must have "cum" a little when Obama took the bait...

cops can arrest you for anything.....that's the way the laws are written. Not sure about this case but it is total BS in general. They generally have big egos and want their asses kissed

funny the charges are dropped

The black scholar and the white police sergeant who arrested him agreed to disagree and promised to talk again, a gracious conclusion to the first round of an eye-opening dialogue on race that allows President Barack Obama to get back to selling his health care plan to skeptical Americans.

After accepting Obama's invitation to discuss the July 16 incident over a beer Thursday evening at the White House, both Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge, Mass., police Sgt. Joseph Crowley thanked Obama for the cold ones served on a patio near the Rose Garden. Neither they nor the president offered apologies for their roles in the affair.

"I have always believed that what brings us together is stronger than what pulls us apart," Obama said after the highly anticipated, 40-minute conversation. "I am confident that has happened here tonight, and I am hopeful that all of us are able to draw this positive lesson from this episode."

It's interesting that Obama reacted more strongly to this mixup about why
Gates was breaking into his house than he did about everything going on in Iran.
He's all soft and cushy with the Iranian militants, all that let's all be friends shit, while
calling US cops "stupid" when they ask for ID from someone breaking into a house.
I thinkhe's got his priorities as president a little mixed up.