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Good evening. It came at the end of a press conference that was almost entirely about health care, a reporter asked President Obama about the arrest of a man he knows, a distinguished professor at Harvard who was trying to enter his own home and was then mistaken for a burglar. Police were called, tempers flared. And Professor Henry Louis Gates Junior ended up in handcuffs spent a few hours in a slammer before charges were dropped.

Complicating things we learned the night there apparently have been a previously break in while the professor have been away on a trip .The President said the police there acted stupidly, the police begged to differ. We begin with all of it tonight from NBC’s Ron Allen.

The arrest of Henry Louis Gates seemed to touch a nerve with President Obama. While admitting he did not have all the facts about what happened when the Harvard scholar was arrested at his home for disorderly conduct. The president strongly criticized the Cambridge police.

"I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry. Number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody, when there was already proof that they were in their own home."

I could not believe my ears this morning when I heard Obama made that statement.
That choice of words has ignited a strong emotional response.
The arresting officer Sergeant James Crowley told the local FOX TV station he is not a racist.

Mr. Gates is, eh, asking for an apology, what is your reaction to that?
There will be no apology.
Does it… Is this now and ever? No apology? Yes!

Colleagues say Crowley is an expert who teaches cadets how to avoid racial profiling. Crowley’s department today defended his actions.

 
I do not believe his actions in anyway were racially motivated.
It’s over.

Turning to his vacation home, Gates refused to answer questions today. But last night on cnn, he vowed to keep speaking out.

Because this can happen to me in Harvard square, it’s going to happen to anybody in the United States and I’m determined that it’ll never happen to anybody again.
While the two main players in the case were giving conflicting accounts of what happened, the debate swirls around them. Was the arrest justified or was it a racial profiling and should the President of the United States be commenting at all.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters on Air Force 1 today: "I think there’s a point in this where it becomes clear that the situation, as it was originally called in, is not the current situation … at that point, cooler heads likely should have prevailed on both sides."

But some say that President went too far. It was stupid to have been arrested in that situation for professor Gates to have been arrested, but I think the President could have stopped sure at labeling the entire police department as stupid. Others convinced the Gates’ case is an example of racial profiling applaud the President for addressing the issue.

I’m sure he thought about it and I accept it, eh, I may have said something worse. Eh, it is not an issue that is void of emotion. While both Gates and Crowley refused to apologize, the spokesman insists the President has no regrets about what he said.

Ron Allen, NBC news, New York.