“A Teachable Moment”: Sound Legal Minds Weigh In On the Gates Issue
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Courtland Milloy of the Washington Post interviewed prominent lawyers and law professors Charles Ogletree and Donald Temple on the matter of Skip Gates and racial profiling. According to Milloy, Gates should skip the blather and sue.
"Let's get serious. If Harvard professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates believes that he has been subject to false arrest, racial profiling, harassment and public humiliation by police in Cambridge, Mass., then he should press his grievance in a court of law. " Read more
Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law Professor, friend and attorney to Gates stated:
“Right now, he’s looking forward to other constructive options: public forums on police conduct in minority communities and trying to deal with broader issues of racial profiling,” Ogletree said.
Donald Temple Washington, DC attorney who has handled many civil rights and police misconduct cases weighed in by saying:
“The problem with false arrest is cancerous in our communities,” … “Police are locking people up at will, using the charge of disorderly conduct as an opportunity to abuse people, to lock them up, instead of having meaningful exchanges with them.”
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