That’s because creating a public disturbance is a crime. Since you can’t stop a public disturbance by writing a ticket, the person is arrested, so they can be removed from the scene, and the disturbance is resolved. Many times, after the person calms down, he is released with no charges, because it’s not worth the paperwork. But, if the cops don’t arrest the person, it doesn’t resolve the disturbance.

We have three observations about the Harvard professor incident:

1. We find it interesting that the fact that this was the professor’s home was evidently not established early on way before the dispute escalated;

2. We find it fascinating that the versions of two members of society, who most would ordinarily view as responsible and honest citizens (this obviously does not include politicians), would vary so dramatically from a factual point of view.

3. Finally, considering that the reading and viewing public were not present at the scene (and thus have no first hand knowledge), and that there is no video tape to our knowledge of the sequence of events and what was said, how so many have formed conclusions, and made assumptions, about who did what and who was wrong.

There are some things which Professor Gates might have considered upon the arrival of the police, no matter how incensed he may have been.

And anyone who has spent any amount of time in the “higher” education system knows the Professor Gates type: bitter, spiteful, bigoted racist with a position of power who felt emboldened to make a political statement.

This is the type of Professor who would change the subject on you when you attempt to engage in a debate- or would give you a poor grade because you actually have an opinion, and done research outside of marxist texts and such. You are fooling no one, Mr Gates.

And Mr President, is this “nuance” you’ve spoke of? “the police acted stupidly”? -please

Obama is out to rip this country to shreds in EVERY way- who can question that such ill-advised statements are divisive… and NOT helpful? He has no idea what happened, he admitted it- and apparently doesn’t care, either… he’s picked his side.

But back in reality, the childish and paranoid Gates completely baited the cop, who acted with admirable restraint, IMO… all he had to do is show his ID and shut up, he was treated with respect. This guy was clearly looking for a fight… and he ought to thank God he didn’t find one.

Obama is going to destroy race relations in this country with his vengeful “get even” mentality… some messiah- Americans should have chosen a fair and sensible human being instead of this embittered nut.

Instead, he launched immediately into accusations of racism, went into the arrogant, “Do you know who I am?” BS, and threatened to get the cop in trouble. All BEFORE producing ANY identification.

Even after that, it would have all been left alone, if he had not followed the cop outside and continued his tirade out there, where he constituted a public disturbance. At that point, he got arrested.

Even as you spark this discussion, the other half of the GOP is jumping up and down declaring that Barack Obama is not even a U.S. Citizen.

Several conservative talk show hosts, members of congress, and even now a sitting Republican Senator are spreading this racist nonsense. And Obama says we have a way to go . . .

Now, I ask you – would this slander have been tolerated for an Irish-American? a German-American? or perhaps a Polish-American?

Answer: Not. In. A. Million. Years.

Look at your G. Gordon Liddy make a jackass out of himself on national TV:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/23/gordon-liddy-struggles-em_n_243982.html

Instead of trying to play “gotcha” with Obama, why don’t the spokespersons for the GOP talk about the scores of racist emails, innuendos, jokes and slander perpetrated in just the last few weeks by ACTUAL GOP OFFICIALS – instead of this garbage.

I wonder . . .