We do not approve the arrest --
``We do not approve of the sudden arrest of Gen. Sarath Fonseka says the Mahanayake Thero of Asgiriya. Fonseka has done yeoman service to the nation and brought relief to us and this is not right. This could have been done in a more respectful manner and the questioning too should have been done that way''.
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama said Wednesday that police acted ``stupidly'' in the arrest of prominent black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. and that despite racial progress blacks and Hispanics are still singled out unfairly for arrest.