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Clarification: I mistakenly dropped a word when commenting on whether the officer made any hand gestures to signal the bicyclist to stop. The sentence should have read that the officer made no hand gestures.

Kudos to The Smoking Gun for posting a copy of the arrest report filed by New York City policeman Patrick Pogan.

He's the officer who a tourist videotaped body slamming a bicyclist in what appears to be an unprovoked attack last Friday. The case is rapidly playing out on YouTube, where the clip has been watched nearly 900,000 times since Sunday night, when it was posted.

This is why I love the Web and I respect The Smoking Gun. They get paper. Thesmokinggun.com is famous for posting copies of important documents before anybody. They let readers decide for themselves what people say by publishing court filings, e-mails and memos.

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I saw the video earlier on YouTube and could hardly believe it. Some members of the NYPD are bad apples that give the rest of the cops on the force a bad name. There have been reports in the past of cops abusing their power. A co-worker of mine had several runins with NY cops. He calls them arrogant SOBs. When you read the police report filed by the cop who body slammed the bicyclist, he lies more than once on the report. He claims the bicyclist hit him, knocking him down and giving him lacerations. That clearly did not happen on the video. The cop even claimed that he saw the bicyclist weaving in and out of traffic almost causing some wrecks. The traffic looked stopped to me in the video also. The cop never tried to gesture, or voice, anything to the bicyclist about stopping for him. This looks like a clear case of police brutality, which does not surprise me about hometown cops. The cop is currently suspended while the NYPD investigates. He needs to be fired for assaulting the bicyclist and for lying multiple times on the police report he filed. If he did these things once, he will do it again unless he is fired.



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Can you avenge evil and not become it?

(I tried to do this post earlier, but Opera browser crashed on me. I lost my post so now I am doing it all over again. )

Earlier this weekend, I went to a local theatre to see the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight. It stars Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman; Heath Ledger as The Joker; Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent; Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth; Maggie Gyllenhaal as Rachel Dawes; Gary Oldman as Lt. James Gordon; and Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox.

The Dark Knight, begins about a year after the events of Batman Begins. Batman has teamed up with Lt. Jim Gordon & the new District Attorney, Harvey Dent. Together, they have put a huge dent in the activites of Gotham City's mobsters and other criminals. The mobsters are running scared since they no longer can operate with the freedom that they once enjoyed. They hold a secret meeting to figure out what to do. The Joker, who has been robbing banks that the mobsters have been using to launder money, crashes the meeting. The mobsters are not happy to see him, but he convinces them hire him to kill Batman. The Joker then starts wreaking havoc throughout the city and killing cops in order to get to Batman.

The acting is well done in this movie. Christian Bale, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman and Morgan Freeman all are very good in their roles. In 2005's Batman Begins, Katie Holmes played Rachel Dawes, but now Maggie Gyllenhaal plays that character in this movie. I think Maggie Gyllenhaal did better in this film than Katie Holmes did in the last one. Maggie Gyllenhaal was a better fit for this character than Katie Holmes. There has been a lot of Oscar buzz surrounding Heath Ledger for his performance as the psychopathic Joker in The Dark Knight. He plays this character closer to his comic book roots than it has been played before in a motion picture. I must say that it seems like this part was made for him. He did excellent in this part that may earn him a posthumous Oscar.

The Dark Knight has lots of action, along with some romantic tension in it. If you are looking for a good summer action movie, then this film is for you. I recommend The Dark Knight to you if you want to see a fun movie this summer. Below is a clip of the first 6 minutes of this film:




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A co-worker of mine showed this video to me of a guy freaking out after getting fired. Check this out!

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