Police and Professor: who had moral high ground?

I had the police come round after I managed to break into my own house, I was only about 18 at the time, they asked me to locate some ID for them on the premises, so showed them my passport and they left.

I'm glad they came round as it could have been a break in I am also glad that they did not arrest me.

If I was black the who knows what could have happened and if I had been mouthy then could have arrested as well, I had been black and mouthy then who knows :rolleyes:
 
Here's the data:

Reaction to the president's intervention broke down along racial lines, a blow to a president who wanted to transcend them. In a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released Wednesday, 4% of African-Americans blamed Mr. Gates for the arrest, versus 30% who identified the officer as the cause. Among whites, 32% said Mr. Gates was more at fault while 7% blamed Mr. Crowley.
The sharpest divide, next to race, was political: 47% of Republicans polled blamed Mr. Gates for his arrest, compared with 11% of Democrats.

'Teachable Moment' Observed With Beer - WSJ.com
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We would rather it not be so, but in reality it isn't one side or the other, it is a just a matter of fact.

Referees discriminate by race in splitsecond decisions
That has been shown to be the case in two recent studies conducted by two teams of American economists. They focused on the split second decisions of referees and umpires and found, that a basketball referee is more likely to call a foul when the player is of different race than himself. Likewise, baseball umpires a more prone to call a strike when the pitcher is not of his own ethnicity.
And there is reason to believe that this race bias problem is to be found in for example European sports, according to one of the scientists behind the baseball study.
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