Blue in Cambridge...

Would the police enter a house,  ask a white man  in his own home to prove he wasn't a burglar?
I mean in Boston, Cambridge, Mass.  what is the likelihood that it goes beyond...Is this your home sir?
There are race attitudes involved in policing, oh yes, and black men or latino men in blue hear the same drummer, blue is the color that matters...even in those cases where white men in blue have executed black men in blue...those mistaken undercover things, or shoot outs where suddenly the black man in blue...becomes just a black man, and police officer is gunned down by his fellow officers.

It is not an easy business, but i think the Cambridge police have it all wrong here.

They entered the house and infuriated the black owner by making him prove he was nt a burglar in his own home. They should apologize for in their blue hearts I think they know it doesn't go down that way elsewhere.  If the black man in blue goes into a home to investigate the burglary and comes across the white male owner, he too does not ask the white man to prove he is not a burglar... well mostly... unless the house is a drug kingpin's house and they want him to get angry and act out...so they can through him in the back of a padded wagon...you see, it is provocative...when the police treat us as if we are criminals, we all want to know what hell is on this man's mind...that he would come into MY HOUSE and ask me if I am a burglar.
the black man in this case, professor Gates is a tv personality, a famous scholar, has studied race in the US, observed upon these questions with scholarly moment and power, and now in the age of Obama... we see some things have not CHANGED.