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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Missing Police Report in "Stupid" Cambridge Police Case

Barack Obama responded to a question last night involving Harvard's african-american professor Henry Gates. Obama explained that the man, a black man, was arrested in his home and had done absolutely nothing wrong. He then called the Cambridge police stupid and said that black and latino men are regularly pulled over and arrested more often than they should be. Obama's exact words were: "it's a fact" and he said that racism continues to haunt the country.

This case will likely be a "he said he said" case, but the Cambridge police report tells a completely different story than the open and closed book case Obama presented last night. The Boston Globe had previously published it, and then pulled it, perhaps because it put Professor Gates in a pretty bad light. Here's the police report.