An attorney for Henry Louis Gates Jr. today said a report on the scholar’s arrest last summer by a Cambridge cop glosses over “critical details” of the incident and “trivializes” his colleague’s “traumatizing experience.”

“There are some very troubling and disappointing aspects to it,” said Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree. “While it’s thoughtful, it very much trivializes what was a traumatic experience for Mr. Gates and would be for any citizen in that circumstance.”

The Cambridge Review Committee, which was charged with investigating the July 16, 2009 arrest of Gates by Sgt. James Crowley, found the men share responsibility for the incident, which they described as “avoidable.“