What kind of fool, met on his own property by the police, responding to a third party call, would refuse to identify himself as the owner? I myself was just locked out of my house last week. No cops showed up, but if they had, I'd have been understanding (If not GRATEFUL). The idea that I'd have refused to identify myself and gotten abusive just shows extreme hubris on the part of "Professor" Gates. Is he, like ex-Representative Cynthia McKinney, assuming that everyone in the whole world immediately recognizes their decidedly non-famous faces on sight? Of course he is! It would serve Gates right to be the victim or a home invasion or burglary and the police refuse to respond, remembering their previous greeting.To be an uneducated career alcoholic and criminal like Rodney King and react like a fool when the police stop him is bad enough, for a Harvard Professor, it's beyond comprehension. If I were the administration of Harvard, he'd be under investigation pending firing. If I were Obama, I'd have kept my damn trap shut, and If I'd been the cops, there would be one more loudmouth, egotist in jail. Of course, that would be assuming a world where logic and not foolish racial games were the norm, not the one we live in.