By Greg Johnson 13

The Gates Controversy

On July 16, 2009, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was arrested by officer James Crowley of the Cambridge, Mass. Police department. A woman saw two men breaking into Gates’ house and asked another woman to call 911. Apparently Gates had come home and found the front door of his house jammed, so he and his driver forced it open. When officer Crowley arrived, Gates was...