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Barack Obama: I think it's fair to say number one any of us would be pretty angry. Number two, that the Cambridge police acted…

On the recordJuly 16, 2013
I think it's fair to say number one any of us would be pretty angry. Number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

President Obama expresses his views on the arrest of Professor Skip Gates.

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