Robert now allows that Gates’s disorderly conduct charge (which has now been dropped) was “at least plausible.”

But the hard look taken by Lawrence Auster (who read the police report at the get-go of the affair) at Gates’s behavior suggests that the charge was indeed quite plausible:

he followed Officer Crowley [the arresting policeman] out of the house to the street and continued yelling and screaming at him in front of the neighborhood and calling him a racist police officer. Crowley twice warned him that he was behaving in a disorderly way and told him to stop, and he didn’t stop. Then Crowley arrested him. And that was on top of Gates’s unbelievable behavior inside the house which Crowley had to endure, where each time Crowley started to leave the house Gates would ask for Crowley’s name but kept yelling and calling Crowley a racist police officer so that he didn’t hear Crowley’s answer.