<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4511e955-5b51-43b9-97a7-7326799fc995/DCA2C7CD-96ED-4429-9CCE-BD6AA095D13E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-27/the-coverup-is-worse-than-the-crime/" href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-27/the-coverup-is-worse-than-the-crime/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.thedailybeast.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-27/the-coverup-is-worse-than-the-crime/"><H1>The Coverup Is Worse Than the Crime</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-27/the-coverup-is-worse-than-the-crime/"><SPAN> <SPAN class="article_img float_right"> <IMG width="174" src="http://www.tdbimg.com/files/2009/07/27/img-bs-top---clark-gates-wrap_000943527847.jpg" alt="Henry Louis Gates" class="" /> <SPAN class="photo-credit">AP Photo</SPAN> </SPAN> The former O.J. Simpson prosecutor says that sometimes police need to make an arrest just to prove they didn’t do anything wrong.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-27/the-coverup-is-worse-than-the-crime/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.thedailybeast.com/img/12E74E05-5789-4365-95BC-D149E72C4856" alt="Henry Louis Gates" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-27/the-coverup-is-worse-than-the-crime/"><P>Let me start by admitting my own bias. I’m a huge fan of Professor Gates and have been for years. But after having been involved in the criminal justice system for the past 30 years, I can also safely say that it didn’t matter—I knew what had happened and why without reading the police reports: the police responded to a call from a white neighbor who reported seeing two black men “breaking in” to a house. The cops didn’t know what they had until they got there, and when they did, they found one very angry black man. It probably didn’t take them long to figure out he really lived there, but by then there’d been a lot of heat and noise, with Gates threatening to have their badges.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DCA2C7CD-96ED-4429-9CCE-BD6AA095D13E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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