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"Black And Blue: Police And Minorities The arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., revived the ongoing discussion about tensions between police officers and non-white Americans. John Burris, a lawyer who represented Rodney King, joins Portland, Ore., Police Chief Rosie Sizer and Montgomery County, Md., Police Chief Clarence Edwards to discuss what happens when black and blue collide. LYNN NEARY, host: This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Lynn Neary in Washington. Neal Conan is away.
The arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. at his home in Cambridge has renewed a national discussion on race relations and law enforcement. Escalator Company's a long history of tension between white police officers and black citizens stretching from the civil rights protests to the beating of Rodney King to the New Year's Day shooting of Oscar Grant in Oakland, California. We still have two very different versions of what happened on that porch in Cambridge last week, but clearly it raises important questions.
How are police officers trained to handle tense situations? What's the responsibility of the author(ph)? What is our responsibility and our rights as citizens? And how does ethnicity change the equation? We'll talk with the chief of police from Portland, Oregon in a few minutes about what she sees in her department, and we want to hear from callers later in the program. But first, we turn to John Burris, who joins us from member station KQED in San Francisco. He is a civil rights attorney who was co-counsel in the Rodney King case.