Let me make this very clear. One of the oldest cons in the book is to scream, holler, yell and make a ruckuss when you get caught doing something you shouldn’t be doing. If a cop falls for this he may well be putting his life and the lives of any onlookers in danger.
If Gates was causing the fuss THAT HE ADMITS TO the the officers were 100% correct in getting him out of the area so that things could be settled appropriately. Just because Gates had grey hair and needed a cain in no way shape or form meant that his antics couldn’t have been a signal for an accomplice to skeedaddle out the back door or worse.
He looks like he was raisin cain. ;-)
I have watched a documentary by Mr. Gates on PBS and thought that he was a very decent and educated man....This crap has really turned my opinion of him.