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Archive Home > 2009 > July > 22 > Charge dropped vs. black Harvard scholar

Charge dropped vs. black Harvard scholar


July 22, 2009

BOSTON — Prosecutors dropped a disorderly conduct charge Tuesday against prominent scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., arrested after forcing his way into his own house in what he and other blacks say was an outrageous but all-too-common example of how police treat them.

Gates, 58, director....

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