When will idiots like Henry Gates learn to cooperate with the Police, and when will Obama learn to stop acting stupidly, or stupid? The answer to both of these questions is never. As for the Professor, or anyone else for that matter, you need to do as the Police say whether you think they are right or wrong. Of course if they tell you to jump off a cliff, then no, you should not do what they say, but in the normal case of them investigating something, just do as they say.

I am 99% sure that this Professor dude mouthed off to the cop without provocation; I'm sure it was due to the gigantic chip on his shoulder. I'm also sure that the only one who brought a bad attitude to this situation was the Professor; he wanted to provoke the cop into arresting him for some sort of publicity or something. I can see this so clearly in my mind, I can see the cop being antagonized on his every move.

Professor Henry Louis seems like a real jerk to me, who as I said before was just making the most (to stir things up racially) out of a bad situation. We can expect something like that from a man like Louis, but to have things stirred up by the President is another thing. What was Obama thinking when he said that the Cambridge Police acted stupidly? Did he momentarily forget the position that he holds, did he think for just a moment that he was back on the Chicago streets organizing communities? I guess you could say that he was not thinking, or he would have just made a very general statement on the matter. This leads me to think that maybe he's not as intelligent as some say he is.

The bottom line is that people need to cooperate with the Police whether they think they are right or wrong, and that our President might want to use his brain next time before making condemning remarks about and incident that he knows nearly nothing about.
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Gates's version: A 'rogue cop' and a battle of wills

Henry Louis Gates gave a long interview on Sirius's Oprah Radio to Gayle King, a sympathetic interviewer who also pushes him