dippin

This was the front door of his own home at noon. I doubt anyone would even call the cops if it was a 58 year old white male in the same situation. But regardless of that, the police did not leave when the he produced photo id with his address on it, and the police officer refused to give his badge and number. And then finally he was arrested, get this, for disorderly conduct in his own home.

Now, none of us were there. But I think that it is quite probable that race played a part here, even if one wants to reduce it strictly to the woman making the call. It also is undeniable that the police went far and beyond "doing their job."

Even if we look at just the police report, and take it as 100% unadulterated truth:
The police officer continued to question someone inside his home even after he had already established that he was the lawful resident, refused to provide identification, lured the professor outside where he went on to arrest him for disorderly conduct within his own property.

The professor might be an asshole, but it is clear that the police officer, even according to his own police report, went completely over the line.

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Now, as for the part that the report didn't say:
How did the officer go from not being allowed in to being yelled at at the professor's kitchen?

Why, if the police officer had already radioed central that the person was the resident, but was uncooperative, did he insist on getting a photo id with address?

Why did he keep questioning the person he had already established as the resident inside his own home? Without a warrant, isn't this trespassing?

Why did he insist so much on talking to the resident "outside?"

EDIT: and to add: why, once the IDs had been produced and further established him as the resident, did they have to still call harvard pd?