Comparing Henry Louis Gates and Tunde Clement: Severe abuses of police power demand attention

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Saturday July 25, 2009 · 3:54 PM PDT

2009/07/25 · 15:54

The story of Tunde Clement's arrest and search(perhaps state-sanctioned rape is more fitting term) by the Albany Sheriff's department in 2006 is an important complement to the Gates story. It is also perhaps more revealing of the state of civil rights in the US if you are poor, if you are black, if you are presumed guilty, and if you encounter the wrong law enforcement officials. And in the climate of the War on Drugs and War on Terror.

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