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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (498466)7/27/2009 12:31:38 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 1570830
 
Inode, > Ten, with this remark you seem to be accepting that the officer overstepped HIS bounds. This is simply not the case.

To be honest, I don't know how else the police officer could have handled the situation. Certainly it's understandable if he's responding to a call about a break-in and the guy he finds in the home refuses to cooperate.

But the professor was in his own home, after all. And he's a guy who has spent his entire life researching and documenting racism.

This is one of those situations where I think a cop's instinct really comes into play here. The professor was being uncooperative, but I doubt he posed much of a threat, and maybe the cop should have taken that into account. I don't know.

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