Not a race driven event at all. The officers were acting exactly as they were trained. You are responding to a burglary in progress, you stay on your toes. When you are verbally assaulted by a person on scene, you detain them to ensure overall scene safety.

A few months ago, I reported a break in where I live. 3 county mounties showed up very quickly, and acted in basically the same way as what happened to Mr. Gates. In fact, I was quite worried I was going to be tazed by the 2 officers grilling me for ID, etc., and thankfully, the 3rd officer kept the very unhappy german shephard on the lead until after they were satisfied I was in fact in my own front yard.

I'm white, all the officers were white, the dog however, was all black... racism?