Authorities in Cambridge, Mass., announced today that prosecutors there would not pursue disorderly-conduct charges brought against the prominent black-studies scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. last week after he exchanged words with police officers investigating a falsely reported burglary at his home.
The Cambridge police were called to Mr. Gates’s home last week after he and a taxi driver, whose help he had enlisted, were seen trying to force open the jammed front door of his house. A Boston Globe article quotes a police report on the incident as saying Mr. Gates became upset with the police at the scene, asking if they had assumed a burglary was in progress “because I’m a black man in America.”
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