Even Gayle didn't sound convinced. And he admitted it was all about his grand stature in life -- how "everybody" knows him, how he "should" have been addressed.
No -- we should not geld the police, Skip. They need to take charge of a situation immediately when there might be a crime in progress.
Gates expressed no understanding of the policeman's point of view: he had no idea what he might be walking into, and might have been facing a drug deal or a gun if it had been an intruder.
I'm very unimpressed, to say the least, with this obvious fibbery. At no time did he tell Gayle about the "your mama" thing, which both officers put in their report; and the next day the black officer also affirmed the arrest.
It sounded like Gates called him Drifts or something like that and said he was from Morroco.
I want to know what he told the driver about breaking in.
It seems strange to me that Harvard would change the locks on him. Was he current with his rent?