New at Reason: Radley Balko on the Arrest of Henry Louis Gates
The arrest of Harvard African-American Studies Professor Henry Louis Gates has certainly got everyone talking. But as Senior Editor Radley Balko writes, everyone's talking about the wrong issue. Put the race talk aside, Balko argues: the issue here is abuse of police power, and misplaced deference to authority.
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