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Henry Louis Gates donates his handcuffs to Smithsonian

The handcuffs used to arrest Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates are now the property of the Smithsonian Institution.

Gates told The New York Times that he donated the handcuffs after they were given to him by Sgt. James Crowley during a sit-down the two had at a Cambridge pub several months ago....
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