Report: Cop, Harvard prof equally at fault

From USA Today

Six to eight seconds into their chance encounter last year, a Cambridge, Mass., police sergeant and a black Harvard professor became hardened adversaries who missed chances to ease a confrontation that triggered a national debate on racial profiling, a report out Wednesday found.

..."Because Sgt. Crowley and Professor Gates did not change their attitudes toward each other, even after each man realized that the other posed no physical threat, the encounter continued to deteriorate," the report said.

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