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Originally Posted by fatso
What I find odd is the nature of the phone call. Reports of a B&E? The neighbours don't know Gates live there? Or did they just see a black guy trying to get into a fancy house and assume the worse? If there is racial profiling in this scenario, it's probably there.
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From what I read it didn't mention a time of day when the reported crime took place. If it was at night, it may have been pretty difficult for a neighbor to have identified Gates. Maybe it was a new neighbor, maybe the neigbors never talk to each other and don't even know each others first name. Far from racial profiling.
Guess what the headlines would have been if it actually was a robber. If the police didn't show up because they had a report of a black man breaking into Gates house. It would have been racism, "police refuse to respond to B&E call at black professors home".
Can't win either way.