Police
are now trained that the scum American public need to learn
that protesting is evil and illegal. This is no more evident
than in the case of an NYPD recruit who brutally attacked a
protesting cyclist and then attempted to prosecute the man on
assault charges.
Officer Patrick Pogan testified in court that cyclist Christopher
Long of the activist group Critical Mass deliberately steered
into him in an attempt to injure the new recruit during a protest
in Times Square in July 2008.
The officer said that he was protecting himself after having
ordered Long to stop owing to the fact that he had taken his
hands off the handlebars of the bike.
Fortunately for Long, a bystander captured the incident on
video and uploaded it to youtube, where it has received over
two million views.
In reality the video shows Pogan pick out Long from a distance
and move in to brutally shove him off his bike and onto the
concrete sidewalk.
Watch the video:
Immediately following the discovery of the video, Pogan was
placed
on desk duty. Now the officer has been forced
to resign in disgrace and has been convicted of
lying, falsifying business records and submitting a false report
on the incident.
Pogan is looking at up to four years in prison, however he
is more likely to escape with a probation sentence instead.
Mr Long, who was not seriously injured in the incident, was
acquitted of assault charges and awarded a $65,000 payout from
the NYPD following a lawsuit.
Critical Mass protests involve cyclists riding through the
streets in opposition to urban reliance on vehicles.
This case is not an isolated incident. Indeed, pretty much
exactly the same thing happened just weeks ago in LA when an
officer was caught on camera kicking a cyclist to the ground
during a protest against oil giant BP.
“Whoa, what the f*** was that for?” the unidentified
cameraman can be heard saying. Moments later, the video shows
two officers converge on the cameraman and take him down to
the ground.
“Get up,” one officer can be heard saying, as another
says “Stay down.”
Watch the video:
These incidents highlight how an increasing percentage of police
are acclimatized to treat free thinking Americans as filthy
scum that need to be taken down.
They also highlight how in many cases the only line of defence
the victims have is video cameras. The cops know this, that
is why they turn on the cameraman at the LA protest, and why
war has effectively been declared by the so called authorities
on filming and photography in our cities.
Police
are now trained that the scum American public need to learn
that protesting is evil and illegal. This is no more evident
than in the case of an NYPD recruit who brutally attacked a
protesting cyclist and then attempted to prosecute the man on
assault charges.
