Black Harvard professor arrested for breaking into his own homeLong story short, the professor's door was jammed so he had to use a little force, with the help of a cabdriver, to get the door open. A woman, who works for a fund raising magazine at Harvard, reported the "two black males ...trying to force entry." Once police arrived, they did not admit the mistake and then had the gall to arrest the man after the audacity that he might get angry at them accusing him of breaking and entering.
And it's not just the rather obvious racist overtones that is disturbing about this. It's that the police proceeded to arrest him for getting angry at being accused of a crime that never actually happened. How would you feel if police came to your house randomly, accused you of breaking into it, then arrested you when you denied it?
The best bit of the article is this little tidbit:
Allen Counter, who has taught neuroscience at Harvard for 25 years, said he was stopped on campus by two Harvard police officers in 2004 after being mistaken for a robbery suspect. They threatened to arrest him when he could not produce identification.
Being black at Harvard is apparently suspicion worthy.