Steady On... Cyclist sues New York Police over body slam video incident

Pretty full on this one. (Don't know how to import a you tube vid)

http://road.cc/content/news/5493-cyclist-sues-new-york-police-over-body-slam-video-incident?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_content=654413184&utm_campaign=rcc+weekly+email+2009-07-08+_+krqkt&utm_term=%2fei%2fy%2f09%2f472%2fD65%2fkilhl%2fassault012335.jpg%22+alt%3d%22%22++align%3d%22left%22+width%3d%2290%22+height%3d%2289%22%3E

Repost. From about 6 months ago when it was news!

The video's a repost, but the news of the lawsuit against the ex-officer isn't. Will be interesting to see how it plays out.

Vid here:
YouTube - Cop Assaulting Cyclist at Critical Mass Ride

That was fucking brutal, what a prick, he deserves to get sued the cunt.

You say that, but what if the cyclist had been riding a Lamborghini?

I think the police officer was in the right.

^ if that's joke, i don't get it.

That vid is awful. I literally cant fucking believe it!

the event was un-fucking-believable. what a cunt in a uniform.

but at the same time, i hate the whole law suit culture in the states and now over here. how the fuck does that equate to $1.5 millon? what difference is that money going to make to anything anyway?

load of old bollocks.

That is a shocker - looks like the officer had a chip on his shoulder.

Fortunately not on the force anymore ...

After knocking Long, 30, from his bike Pogan who had only been on the force a matter of weeks arrested him for assault, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest – claiming in his reports that Long had been weaving through traffic and had refused to stop. The truth was only revealed when the case got to court and Long's defence lawyers produced the video – showing the truth to be very different.

Well, i agree, but unfortunately, money is the only thing that talks in the Sates, and to a lesser degree, here as well. The fact that it's gonna cost the Police 1.5 million, might make it clear to these fuckers that "this aggression will not stand man"!

Wac

Imagine hypothetically he was cycling dangerously (the video doesn't prove that either way), It's possible that he was before, and for example another cop had tried to stop him, and had radioed the other cop to stop him.

Now I don't know US law, but wouldn't the cop have the right to stop him, using force if needed? After all they can run a car off the road in a car chase.

Of course we don't know any of the other facts in this case. If he hadn't done anything wrong it's clearly wrong, and it looks like the courts thought so too.

i hate the whole law suit culture in the states and now over here.

I don't.

Abuse of power gives rise to claims for punitive damages and rightly so. Litigation is good. We need more of it.

Spoken like a true lawyer :-)

Imagine hypothetically he was cycling dangerously (the video doesn't prove that either way), It's possible that he was before, and for example another cop had tried to stop him, and had radioed the other cop to stop him.

Now I don't know US law, but wouldn't the cop have the right to stop him, using force if needed? After all they can run a car off the road in a car chase.

Of course we don't know any of the other facts in this case. If he hadn't done anything wrong it's clearly wrong, and it looks like the courts thought so too.

You don't know any other facts in the case, because you haven't looked, or even read the thread particularly carefully - the video is old news, the civil case is new. Short version: your hypothetical situation is not what happened.

But I agree with Clive when he said that thing about the policeman being right and needing to prosecute the cyclist.

You don't know any other facts in the case, because you haven't looked, or even read the thread particularly carefully - the video is old news, the civil case is new. Short version: your hypothetical situation is not what happened.

But I agree with Clive when he said that thing about the policeman being right and needing to prosecute the cyclist.

Of course it didn't happen, that's why it's hypothetical. You are right that I don't know the other facts, but I've only seen this thread and the linked article, and a cycling website link posted on a cycling forum is hardly a neutral source...

I was simply making the point that in a theoretical situation there may or may not be a justification for it, I don't know.

fixed

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Patrick-Pogan-Police-Officer-Who-Deliberately-Knocked-Activist-Christopher-Long-Off-Bike-Walks-Free/Article/201007315665445?lpos=World_News_News_Your_Way_Region_7&lid=NewsYourWay_ARTICLE_15665445_Patrick_Pogan%3A_Police_Officer_Who_Deliberately_Knocked_Activist_Christopher_Long_Off_Bike_Walks_Free

looks like the officer got off with just a conditional discharge, no assult charges. Does seem very lenient considering the serious injury he could have caused.

The videos have been removed due to a terms of use violation. Apparently.

AKA The police don't like stuff up on the Net that shows them in a bad light..?

rather interesting considering the seemingly conclusive evidence against. i wonder what his defence was.

it will have no doubt included "fearing for his safety". Police literally get away with murder.

he is the video, this link works,
YouTube- Officer Patrick Pogan

looks like the officer got off with just a conditional discharge, no assult charges. Does seem very lenient considering the serious injury he could have caused.

It's wildly lenient as he committed perjury under his oath of office, he filed false documents, he attempted to have Long (the cyclist) up on the charge of assaulting a police officer (and other charges) which would have seen Long behind bars if it were not for the video emerging on Youtube that contradicted his account.

The assault is trivial compared to the perjury, the perjury is what really marks Pogan out as a terrible little cunt as it could have easily put Long in prison.