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Originally Posted by shakran
The neighbor in this case called the cops and said that a black male was breaking into the house. If the cop comes over and finds a black male in the house, it's entirely reasonable for the cop to want to make sure that the particular black male in the house actually belongs there. The cop was trying to protect the man's property. All the guy had to do was to prove that he lived there (easy enough - here's a bill to this address and here's my driver license with the same name on it).
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The issue is that the cop himself admits in his police report that he had already concluded that this was the lawful resident as he continued to question him inside.
And so far this story is based ONLY on the police report. We still don't know what happened between the time the professor refused to let the police officer in to the time the police officer was in his kitchen, but we do know that the police officer was still in and still questioning him even after he had radioed central reporting that the person seen entering the house was the resident.