Cambridge is known locally as “The People’s Republic of…” It’s the Berkeley of the East Coast. It is as far left, anti-racist, politically correct as it is possible to be.
In addition, Sgt Crowley teaches a course against “Police profiling” at the Police training academy.
Further, it’s interesting that the question was asked by Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun Times, who writes extensively about “racism”, is known to Obama, and saved him from any more questions he couldn’t answer about healthcare.

The real story is that the President got involved. No WAY would Bush have gotten involved, or any other president that I can think of. Nobody knows the details of the situation yet, and it isn’t a federal issue anyways. Is it?

It is just very odd that Obama would say anything about it, and imho makes him look rather goofy. You would think that he would have “people” around him to coach him in these types of situations.

To your point of the post, this man and his family will be destroyed very soon. I feel very sorry for him.

What this tells us that a significant part of our population and polity still use the same psychological mechanism to judge their fellow citizens that most Americans used fifty years. Ironically, it is probably only non-leftist whites who have changed because they have been the only ones held accountable for judging others based on stereotypes. Everyone else has gotten a free pass to be a bigoted as they like. Heck, a lot of leftist will tell you that only white people can be bigoted and that the concept doesn’t apply to anyone else.

Oh, I loved this:

“No one wants to talk about race,” said Donna Brazile, a Democratic strategist and ABC News consultant.

Of course she’s right. We should talk about race more. Because we never do.

Obama’s decision to get involved was bizarre by any normal standard of presidential behavior. Yet it makes some sense in the crude logic of urban machine politics, where the organizer’s job is to encourage group grievances in order to get candidates elected and legislation passed. And sometimes, when your program bogs down, you use your organizing skills to create diversions. Will it work in this case? I doubt it, but it doesn’t cost Obama much to try. (It costs the country, and particularly racial minorities, by making non-minorities even more cynical about anything labeled “race” than they already are, but the short-term political benefits to Obama outweigh the distributed long-term costs to everyone else.)