Sorry, I know the story should be dead already, but nobody seems to have noticed what I did.
Why hasn't anybody took a look at the person that tipped the police? In my view, the police followed their rules, Gates was following his rules. Nobody did anything seriously wrong except for the jackass with the camera waiting to get the photo of Gates in handcuffs.
I think the neighbor that doesn't recognize a fellow homeowner is at fault. Or worse the neighbor willfully made a false report to the police to cause professor Gates all that trouble.