The white police sergeant accused of racial profiling after he arrested renowned black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his home was hand-picked by a black police commissioner to teach recruits about avoiding racial profiling.
Friends and fellow officers – black and white – say Sgt. James Crowley is a principled police officer and family man who is being unfairly described as racist.
The only other Cambridge police officer who was inside Gates’ home during his arrest says he and Crowley “followed protocols.”
