“he followed the cops into his front yard berating and threatening them AFTER they had decided to leave”
He wanted to provoke an incident and then claim racism. It happens all the time.
That isn't what Gates says. He says he presented a photo ID and the cop arrested him anyway in his own home for doing nothing!. It is amazing here that so many folks here are willing to take the cop's word as gospel truth over the word of a property owner citizen arrested in his own hom.