Arrest of Gates also shines a light on 'disorderly conduct' laws - Los Angeles Times

Reporting from Washington -- For some defense lawyers, the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was less about racial profiling than about how persons can be arrested simply for speaking angry words to a police officer. Arrest of Gates also shines a light on 'disorderly conduct' laws

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