Hell yeah Christopher!!!

Get all you can, I'd be doing the same exact thing if I was in your shoes. When you consider all the incidents that these pigs have gotten off Scott free cause there wasn't a video around, to show what really happened, you'd be doing everyone a big favor in helpings to stop these assaults. I would have asked for 5 million and settled for 1.5 mil myself. Good luck sir and hope you get it.

What a weiner.

Seriously, everyone who participates in Critical Mass is eligible to be shoved into a curb. I only lament that I wasn't there to shove some of them myself. :(

Remind me to pop you in the f*ckin' mouth if I ever see you.

Old-time hockey!

$10,000 for the shove, $1,490,000 for being a greedy little ratfuck.

pretty much

If I were in his shoes, I'd sue for 5 mil, and if I got it, I'd donate it all to a non-profit group that represents civilians in NYPD abuse cases.

Who does that? But it would be funny if he got enough to get a great big shiny black SUV and ran over a cop. Naturally, there would be a small fine...

What we REALLY need is malpractice insurance for cops. They have to pay a premium just like doctors, and then if they get sued for assaulting someone on the job, it comes out of the insurance. Once they've had an incident, they'd find it impossible to get insurance, and therefore be out of a job. Then we'd have a lot of security guards with real law enforcement training.

Now if somebody would just start suing all the cyclists who come whipping down the street the wrong way or on the sidewalks and being a menace to pedestrians.

So you're a psychic, too?

Why not? You obviously believe you are, since you can read Pat Pogan's mind and know he's a "good kid." Unless, as others speculated, you really are either Pogan or his father.

With Pogan's attitude, it would have been just a matter of time before he killed somebody without justification. It's just a good thing that he was caught and fired before any truly grievous injury happened.

Louima got about 8 mil ---- this kickball sissy is getting 100 grand if he's lucky after his lawyer gets his

These bullies go out every month and ride, en masse, into crowded intersections. Maybe some of you are familiar with Seventh Avenue there in Times Square? Its kind of crowded. Why should this conduct be tolerated?

but we should tolerate cop-on-civilian assault and subsequent cover up? the cyclist that was clothes-lined was hardly the "bully" in that scenario. there are appropriate ways for the police to arrest a law breaker, assaulting them is not one of them. the NYPD agrees, which is why he no longer has a job.

Can we please reserve our anger for idiots like the drunk people that fall in the subway tracks and then sue the city and the MTA for having dared lay the tracks there?

All of you people who now hate this guy (who presumably all were very angry about the situation 1 year ago and completely supported him), what would you do if a dumb rookie cop knocked the shit out of you and falsified the arrest papers? You would really just walk away and thank the random tourist for having a video camera on hand and not do anything about it? This guy was falsely arrested by a corrupt cop and this is one of the few instances in which the city deserves to be held accountable.

We should be thankful this guy is not suing for $100 million and very pissed off that this will happen 100 more times in the next 3 years b/c the NYPD won't do anything about it.

I think they should institute a policy in which all of these lawsuits are settled with money from the NYPD pension fund. Since we taxpayers are stuck paying for their BS pension system no matter what, we might as well penalize them. I'm sick of the "few bad apples" argument, as this is a systemic problem and the entire organization needs to start being held accountable for acting like assholes rather than officers of the law.

The city should sub-contract the PBA to dispense salaries from the PBA. I'm sure the PBA would love to be in charge of the entire NYPD budget, but it could be arranged so that all cops are employees of the PBA, not the city, so when they screw up, the PBA gets sued, not the city.

Of course, even as I write this, I realize what a stupid idea it is.

Like the idea of pulling the settlement money out of cops pension fund.

Why can't more $$ be taken from the PBA or the pension fund?