Boston Cop Called Gates "Jungle Monkey"

The Boston Herald reports that Boston cop Justin Barrett got himself a dose of administrative leave after admitting to writing an email in which he called Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. a "jungle monkey." Barrett, who had been assigned to District B-3 (Dorchester and Mattapan), presumably knows that black people are human beings, but he may have been concerned that Boston's nationwide reputation as America's most racist city had been jeopardized by the Cambridge police when they arrested Gates.