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It sounds like a carbon copy of the Henry Louis Gates's racial profiling case of last summer, only this time here in Vermont.
Police in Hartford respond to a call from a cleaning service of a suspected burglary at a townhouse. When police arrive, they enter the unit, find an African-American man sitting on a bathroom toilet somewhat dazed, and arrest him. He is handcuffed and dragged out of the unit, naked.
Neighbors - one of them a retired police officer - try to tell the Hartford cops that the black man indeed owns and lives in the townhouse, and suffers from a serious medical condition. The cops tell the neighbors to back off or get arrested.
Indeed, there has been no robbery - only a mess created when the man slipped into a semiconscious state because of a chronic blood-sugar imbalance.
