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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

July 27, 2009

President Obama?s statement that Cambridge, Massachusetts police had ?acted stupidly? in the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates is sound, even if his perception of the motives behind it was indefensible.

Professor Gates, a small, middle-aged black man, was arrested in his own home after a neighbor called in a tip that two men were trying to break in. The two men were Gates and his chauffeur, who were seen struggling with a stubborn front door.

When police arrived this confusion was quickly cleared up, but one officer took issue with Gates? attitude. So he arrested the professor for supposedly engaging in disorderly conduct in his own home. The charge was quickly dropped.

There was no justification to handcuff Gates and take him to jail because he said something that offended a policeman. That?s what President Obama should have said, if he felt compelled to answer questions about the matter.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.