BY Beverly Ford and Helen Kennedy Daily News WritersRed-faced officials dropped criminal charges against Harvard's most prominent black scholar, who was arrested last week in his home by cops looking for a burglar.
The city of Cambridge issued a statement Tuesday calling the disorderly conduct arrest of Professor Henry Louis (Skip) Gates Jr. "regrettable and unfortunate."
Gates, 58, was handcuffed and hauled away Thursday afternoon after kicking up an angry fuss when a police sergeant entered his house and demanded proof he lived there. The bizarre incident revived the Boston area's image as a hotbed of racial tension - something Cambridge officials were eager to reverse.
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I see a very clear case of a police officer having extreme problems with the idea that a black man belonged in that affluent neighborhood, and who probably also had issues with the idea of a liberal Black Harvard Professor daring to be offended by the officer’s treatment.
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