Gates and Crowley going to White House for beer with president

A Harvard professor and the police officer who arrested him have agreed to meet with President Barack Obama at the White House on Thursday.
   
An administration official tells The Associated Press that Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley of the Cambridge, Mass., police department are scheduled to meet Obama on Thursday evening. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the meeting has not been announced.
   
Crowley, who is white, arrested Gates, who is black, after an investigation into a suspected burglary found no burglars but escalated into a heated exchange between the men at Gates’ home.
   
Obama entered the fray when he said the police had “acted stupidly,“ and later said both sides had overreacted.