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NBC's Mike Taibbi called him a "world renowned scholar." CBS' Jim Axelrod called him "perhaps America's best-known African-American intellectual." But when Professor Henry Louis Gates of Harvard University ended up handcuffed, in a mugshot, arrested by the Cambridge Police Department, ABC did not consider the incident worth a reporter. "This is what happens to black men in America," was how NBC's Taibbi quoted Gates' protests when he was confronted in his own house on suspicion of burglary by police. "Outrageous," quoted CBS' Axelrod from Gates' interview with Washington Post, "how poor black men across the country are treated every day." Gates accused police of refusing to accept his photo ID and refusing to provide him with name and badge number. Police accused Gates of being uncooperative, belligerent and disorderly. Charges were eventually dropped.
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