In fact, if the neighborhood Dylan was walking in was a poor black neighborhood and a poor black person called in the complaint against Dylan, what this incident proves, among other things, is that the police may, in this case at least, take seriously the complaints of poor blacks against whites accused of behaving suspiciously in their neighborhood.

A lesson which seems to be not exactly the knee-jerk reaction of some brilliant posters on Mudcat.

Who really should simmer down a bit and start reading and thinking.