VIOLET SALAD LEAF PUSHER ATTACKS

ARMED POLICE OFFICER , Don't think so.

Are you actually comparing this incident to Diallo or are you citing a similarity in the PBA's bullshit statements? Might want to be more careful to say what it is you mean....

Jerky-

There are lots who are in the NYPD who aren't lying corrupt douchebags. Sadly, they haven't figured out that they are not doing themselves any favors protecting their lying corrupt douchebag brothers.

I don't understand that mentality. When I was a kid, my father was the first person to line up to kick my ass when I did something wrong to other people (people he didn't even know, just because I embarassed my family). Is there no sense of shame in the NYPD that these few thugs bring upon the department?

Wow, is there anyone who is involved in NYPD law enforcement who is NOT a lying corrupt douchebag?? I can't believe we used to send money to the PBA....

Officer Pogan didn't belong there. Few of his fellow officers did. Why were they there? to prevent calamities or to cause them? That's the question Ray Kelly should answer. As it stands, "public safety" means keeping cops away from the public.

Most of my cousins are cops. And most cops are asses. I don't think my cousins are asses, but a few might be. Why is it that all the losers and troublemakers and bullies in my old high school class are now cops?

Thing is...it takes a hell of a strong character to be a cop and not abuse your power. To use restraint, negotiation, peacekeeping skills. Those are cops that deserve our serious respect. Unfortunately, since we have to respect every person in a uniform, when some ass steps over the line and uses brutal force to get stop someone from riding his bicycle away - it chips away at that respect.

So the guy on the bike rode away. So what? This cop could've easily radioed another cop ahead to grab him. Or he could have just let this 'troublemaker' pass - was he going to kill anyone? But no, his personal pride was injured and he snapped and attacked the biker. This cop was definitely an ass.

Remember, all. The city of New York decided this guy was responsible enough to own a gun. You are not.

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As for the argument that the cyclist leans into the thug, yes he does. This is a defensive manoevre and is basic physics. We do this naturally without thought. Remaining upright or leaning away would mean being thrust to the ground with greater force. By leaning in, some energy from the blow is used in returning the cyclist to the upright position before he is flung to the ground.

Watch soccer players when the 'shoulder' each other. Generally one player will initiate the 'shoulder', but both will lean in against teh other - one is being defensive, the other offensive.

This tape clearly shows the cyclist trying to avoid hitting the policeman, until seeing that he has 2 options:

1) cycle into the innocent crowd and potentially injure someone

2) act defensively to minimise injury to onlookers and protect himself by dipping his shoulder.

The policeman is a thug and a criminal. The Police Union is sickening. There may be some good cops out there. I'd like to see them, but until they speak out against the corruption, your best bet is to steer clear of all police. You can't tell the good from the bad.

Chronology

Policeman No 1 assualts a cyclist.

Policeman No 2 assists in assault.

Policeman No 1 issues a false arrest report.

The Police Union supports the both policemen.

Are the police to be trusted in this country? It seems to me (I'm from Europe) that the answer is no.

Since coming to NY I have seen the Sean Bell murder (police acquitted) and bizarrely, no files charged against an off duty policeman who fired his gun at a fellow motorist in a road rage incident where the civilian motorist would not give way (the motorist was not obligated to). The police appear to be above the law.

I will now cross the street rather than walk by a policeman. Without knowing it, the US seems to have become a police state - a relatively benign one, but a police state nonetheless.

@interlard

There is speculation that Kelly is being groomed for mayor despite his week denials (Klein is such a loser that's not a serious speculation). I think that's the only reason he can't understand what happened. Otherwise, he'd being backing up Pogon too.

Let's keep the pressure up and make sure those at the top are called on the carpet for fostering a culture of brutality within the NYPD.

The Jets could use a guy like him on their defense.

Oh yeah, and the kid does look like a dweeb meathead. Shouldn't have hired him in the first place.

I'm glad Boomberg disapproves of the police brutality. But since there is so much of it in New York City and the problem has obviously infected the entire NYPD, Commissioner Ray Kelly needs to be fired (or jailed--along with all the offending thugs) and the whole force needs to be educated on the difference between law enforcement and attacking innocent people.

He "can't understand why it happended?" I can understand. It doesn't take any kind of genius to know that our cops are turning into unchecked thugs again. There is a new story every weeek. These cops are OUR employees, hired BY US to protect US. This is the USA, not Iran, so let's get a grip and take our city back.

Criminal prosecution is important not so much for the assault on the cyclist (not sure if the guy was hurt), but for the false arrest and false reporting by the policeman. It is vital that the public have confidence in the testimony and reporting of police, and when it can be demonstrated that a police officer is lying, they have to be made accountable. That sort of thing can't be let go.

I pulled #57, above, from the aforementioned police blog. This officer appears to be claiming not to know that pulling a woman who is already cuffed into a car FROM BEHIND, BY SURPRISE, and BY HER HAIR is a problem. Fucking A he was sued!

"The biker should have tried to slow down" HA !

All the bikes were moveing the same speed past the cops who was standing there RELAXED... the guy who got pushed was just the target closest to the Facist Pig who decided to show his true colors and knock someone down like the THUG he is.

You know ... the people defending this tool do not respect honest sane policemen or they would be calling for his ouster. Nope they WANT a police state .... remember in Spain some people still praise and MISS Facist Dictator Franco because he brought Law and Order by killing thousands and thousands of LIBERALS who wanted freedom.

I would buy this guy a beer and that goes for the other guy on Delancy Street where I worked many years ago too. This job will never tell you how to do something they will just tell how not to do it after you already did it. My partner and I had a woman in handcuffs who was refusing to get into the back seat of the RMP on Pitt Street and we were quickly getting surrounded by a large crowd so I open the door to the back seat on the other side of the RMP crawled across the seat and from behind her grabbed her by the hair and one arm and pulled in before she knew what happen and got out of their. Of course I got sue and treated like +%+% by the ADA and the Corporation Counsel. I'm just glad their weren't all these cameras around when I was getting into fights with the the shitheads in the 7th back in the 80s. I still have my slapper, but it sits in draw in my house now.

Agreed about Lynch. Even Randi Weingarten admits that there are bad teachers out there, and it's in everyone's interest to get them off the job.

hahaha that cop is overweight