Black Harvard Prof. does not trump a Cambridge Police Sgt.

The Gates Incident
Living in a Police State
By DAVE LINDORFF
Excerpt:
Prof. Gates, who was understandably outraged at the whole situation, properly told the sergeant that he wanted his name and his badge number, because he intended to file a complaint. Whether or not the officer had done anything wrong by that point is not the issue. It was Gates’ right as a citizen to file a complaint. The officer’s alleged refusal to provide his name and badge number was improper and, if Gates’ claim is correct, was a violation of the rules that are in force in every police department in the country.
But whatever the real story is regarding the showing of identification information by Gates and the officer, police misconduct in this incident went further. Gates reportedly got understandably angry and frustrated at the officer for refusing to provide him with this identifying information and/or for refusing to accept his own identification documents, and at that point the officer abused his power by arresting Gates and charging him with disorderly conduct.
http://counterpunch.com/lindorff07232009.html
All that is said and done, there is a long American history of all that has previously been said and done under similar circumstances and we are all very grateful Prof. Gates was not murdered during the incident. There are well documented questionable conduct of the police resulting from similar circumstances.
As always,
BB
P.S. In my opinion, the arresting police officer’s refusal to apologize is a big clue as to what he really wanted to do at the time.