The Presumption of Guilt 4-14-11 Hour 1

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On Tuesday, July 16, 2009, Henry Louis Gates Jr., a renowned Harvard professor acclaimed for his work on racial justice, was handcuffed and arrested on the front porch of his home by a Cambridge police sergeant. From that moment, through the media firestorm that followed, to the sharing of beers by Gates, the arresting officer and the President and Vice President of the United States, the event become representative of the tensions between white and black, police and civilian, and the privileged and non-privileged that remain in America. Our guest, Charles Ogletree, one of the country’s foremost experts on civil rights, and fellow Harvard Professor who acted as counsel to Gates, examines that afternoon and its aftermath in his new book.