President Obama was right the first time, that the encounter had a stupid ending, and the second time, that both Gates and Crowley overreacted. His soothing assessment that two good people got snared in a bad moment seems on target.
Gates said that Crowley was so “gruff” and unsolicitous “the hair on my neck stood up.” Crowley says Gates acted “put off” and “agitated.”
But the strong guy with the gun has more control than the weak guy with the cane. An officer who teaches racial sensitivity should not have latched on to a technicality about neighbors — who seemed to be outnumbered by cops — getting “alarmed” by Gates’s “outburst.”
Besides, after ID clearly established that Gates was in his own house, the cops should not "asked" him to step back outside. Cops can be (not all) nasty, arrogant and itching to egg you on so they can arrest you; also they can lie. I have personally witnessed such behavior.
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