VIDEO: COP BODY-CHECKS BICYCLIST OFFICER STRIPPED OF BADGE, GUN

New York Post ^ | 27July2008 | MURRAY WEISS, KATI CORNELL and KYLE MURPHY

[LuxMaker]

A rookie cop - the son of a highly respected New York City detective - has been stripped of his badge and gun after being caught on video viciously attacking a bicyclist who was part of a Times Square demonstration.

[LuxMaker]

Click the link to the excerpt and watch the video and read the full summary.

Apparently this cop was fresh out of the Police Academy.

I wonder if this is business as usual or the case of one rogue cop. Comment away.

[NowApproachingMidnight]

That was uncalled for, and the cop didn’t need to lie.
He should be locked up.

I live in New York, and trust me the cops have a lot more to worry about than some cyclists.

Share the road.

[Diggity]

The guy was probably mouthing off to the cop.

[DallasBiff]

I saw the video on Fox, total dumba$$.

He's a rogue cop, and probably got his job because of daddy's conncetions.

[hole_n_one]

In court papers, Pogan accused Long of purposely swerving his bicycle to block traffic and then using it as a weapon to run down the officer, knocking him off his feet and causing a "laceration" on his forearm.

Pogan is not only a thug, he's a liar.

He has no business carrying a gun or a badge.

[mylife]

WTF? is wrong with this jerk?

[mylife]

Watch the video

[beelzepug]

He’s needed in Seattle. These “Critical Mass” anarchist/cyclists are out of control and need a good beating.

[Blood of Tyrants]

He is one of the ones who should have been weeded out in the academy. He is simply a thug with a badge.

[hole_n_one]

The guy was probably mouthing off to the cop.

You should quit now before you make a complete idiot out of yourself.

[Sawdring]

Critical Mass is going to try to create havoc in St. Paul for the upcoming Republican National Convention. While I despise Critical Mass, this cop needs to spend some time in jail thinking about what he did.

[hole_n_one]

Pogan (center) stalking his prey..........

[PAR35]

The guy was probably mouthing off to the cop.

Nothing illegal about that.

[hinckley buzzard]

It certainly appears the cop was the aggressor, notwithstanding the possibility of some verbal abuse from the critical mass-hole.

I wonder why police don't use obvious charges like disorderly conduct and obstructing traffic and such to get these vermin off the roads and out of the public's way.

[Michael.SF.]

The cop was wrong. Period.

But, these critical mass people are a bunch of A-holes. Personally, if I ever am in SF during a critical mass I am going to bring along several boxes of tacks, heavy duty ones to take out their tires.

[supremedoctrine]

This cop is so stupid he probably thought his story would be believed, and he’s so oblivious to reality he doesn’t know or couldn’t imagine there was ample videotape to totally turn his story to crap? The cop went out of his way to zero in on this cyclist, who was travelling in a straight line, while the cop travelled a good 12 feet in order to push the cyclist over. Coulda killed him, or caused a concussion. ROgue cops like this ALWAYS cost NYC countless hundreds of thousands if not millions. They should NEVER be hired in the first place.

[Polybius]

The cop picked out his victim at 25 Seconds on the video.

He then slowly walked from the middle of the street to the left hand side of the street into attack position from 25 Seconds to 28 Seconds on the video.

He then deliberately pushed over the biker thus trapped between the cop and the sidewalk.

The video shows that the cop is guilty as hell of felony assault. If the biker had landed wrong, the cop could have killed him.

These observations have nothing to do with being pro-cop or anti-cop or pro-demonstrator or anti-demonstrator.

These are just the facts documented on video in this particular case involving this particular thug who happens to wear an NYPD uniform.