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July 23, 2009
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National News Story: Harvard Professor arrested by
Cambridge Police
President & Media touch off national discussion: Was it
Racial Profiling?
  
Boston Globe Newspaper: Front Page That Day...
Details From:
Boston.com
(Event chronology
published
by the Boston Globe Newspaper)
The controversy began
when Henry Louis Gates
Jr., one of the nation's
pre-eminent
African-American
scholars, was arrested
at his home by Cambridge
police investigating a
possible break-in.
(Boston Globe, 7/20/09)
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President Obama,
weighing in on the
arrest, said police
“acted stupidly,’’ a
charge that would invite
criticism and put him on
the defensive.
(Boston Globe , 7/23/09)
Coming to the defense of
arresting officer
Sergeant James Crowley
(left), Cambridge's
police commissioner said
that Gates's house had
been broken into
previously.
(Boston Globe, 7/23/09)
Seeking to defuse the
situation, President
Obama invited both
Crowley and Gates to the
White House for a beer,
an offer both accepted.
(Globe, 7/28/09)
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