Reply #34: I suppose it is because he tried to save a black basketball player several years

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back by giving him mouth-to-mouth.

He comes off rational in his interviews, I would bet that his ego was bruised when Gates accused him of racial profiling and that just set things in motion. Gates was pissed his front door was screwed up and that he had to try to break in that door. He was frustrated to begin with and then to know that lunch time on some regular day his busy body neighbor called the cops because he and his black friend were trying to get in the house.

Gates was entitled to be angry and it was his constitutional right to be mouthy, freedom of speech lets him say a whole lot, especially in his house. Crowley was trained, he should have been the one that wasn't emotional and that acted professionally and then went on his way once Gates provided identification.