Arrest of Professor Gates, Harvard.

Disorderly Conduct and other subjective discretionary laws.

I do not see this as purely a race issue. Prof. Gates most likely 'jumped the gun' due to past experiences that ultimately escalated into a race issue fueled by the media.

The bigger picture is that unfortunately our law enforcement agencies have vast discretionary powers and really think that they are above the law and our Constitution. I fear that we are slowly but surely regressing towards a police state. I am originally from Africa and what I see here is that law enforcement is not really dedicated to 'Serve and Protect' as commonly advertised on their vehicles. What it really should read is: 'To Intimidate and Harass' - Ask any teenager in southern California - and of course to make arrests so that the wheels of the Judicial Industrial Complex can keep turning.

Of course this has ultimately become a race issue but basically this was just cops being cops.

Bribery- Ethics? Shakedown?

Politico, a Washington-based publication said it had received a copy of a letter from the American Conservative Union asking FedEx for a $2 million to $3 million donation in exchange for the group’s backing in a legislative battle with UPS, according to a published report Friday.

FedEx is fighting a measure in Congress that would move coverage of the operator’s air express business, now under the Railway Labor Act, to the National Labor Relations Act, which could make it easier for labor unions to organize FedEx Express workers at individual terminals.

The letter said that for $2 million, the ACU would offer “op-eds and articles written by ACU’s Chairman David Keene and/or other members of the ACU’s board of directors.”

Politico quoted an official at the American Conservative Union who said the group did not receive money from UPS.

The ACU backs UPS and its call for Congress to change the way FedEx is covered under federal labor law.