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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