AN UPDATE:

Cambridge police have now dropped the charge against the Harvard scholar, calling the incident, “regrettable and unfortunate.”

For some of our readers who think St. Louis is alone when it comes to tension between the races, here’s a story from Cambridge, Mass., as food for thought.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. is a prominent black scholar at Harvard University — and he was arrested at his own home last week after reports of a break-in. His lawyer says he was the victim of racial profiling; police aren’t saying anything past what was in the written report about…