If police question/detain a black person is it racism?

[TracyCoxx]

If a neighbor sees a couple of guys attempting to break a door in to enter a house and calls the police to report a possible burglary, is the officer who responds to the call and enters the home to investigate and question the people who were observed to be breaking into the house a racist?

If the officer is white, and the suspects are white, no.
If the officer is black, and the suspects are white, no.
If the officer is black, and the suspects are black, no.
If the officer is white, and the suspects are black, yes.

Of course, I'm talking about what's been all over the news the last couple of days. Officer Crowley investigated a reported break-in at a home, he found Henry Gates inside the house. Crowley asked him for his ID. At first Gates refused, then showed the officer some identification. The whole time, Gates was shouting that Crowley is a racist.

Why is the officer a racist?

Now what happened after that wasn't racism. It's just cops suffering the delusion that everyone must fall in line and kiss their ass all the time. Crowley should have just apologized and left. Gates continued to hurl accusations of racism and Crowley insisted that Gates calm down, until eventually he had enough and arrested Gates.

Gates is in his own house. He can say whatever he wants. He has freedom of speech. Police let their egos take over no matter what the race of the people they are interacting with are. I am white and I have seen it many times and I'm tired of it. Their authority only goes so far and they need to know where those boundaries are. But rather than discussing that part of the case, there's a black person involved so we need to go down the racist road yet again.