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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A Harvard scholar and the police sergeant who arrested him last July after a confrontation outside his home both missed opportunities to “ratchet down” the situation and end the encounter more calmly, according to a review of the case released Wednesday.
The independent review by a 12-member panel said “misunderstandings and failed communications” and a “certain degree of fear” each man had for the other led to the dispute that ended with black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. being placed in handcuffs by the veteran white Cambridge police Sgt. James Crowley.
