Obama: Cambridge Cops "Acted Stupidly" In Prof. Gates Arrest

At the end of a primetime news conference, mostly revolving around President Obama's health care reform bill, Chicago Sun-Times columnist Lynn Sweet asks him about race relations in America. He says that "the Cambridge police acted stupidly" in arresting Professor Henry Louis Gates in his own home, which he broke into after forgetting his keys. It is believed that both Obama as well as Gates suspect racial profiling in the arrest. Obama also joked that he wouldn't break into his own current place of residence like Gates would, because, "Then I'd get shot."