Video: Jets Fan Arrested, Tasered (Discreetly?)

In the annals of police Taser porn, this series of short videos can't possibly compete with the naked wizard Coachella Tasering, to say nothing of the trailblazing "Don't Tase me, bro!" Nevertheless, to bring things full circle, we have a duty to publish these clips, showing a Jets fan getting arrested and supposedly Tasered at a tailgate party outside Indianapolis stadium Sunday. (Despite the absence of frothing or whimpering, it's still video a Jets fan getting arrested, so you can't complain.) Patrick Mallon, a 26-year-old Garden State construction worker, was ultimately charged with disorderly conduct and public intoxication, and missed watching his precious Jets lose to the Colts. Here's how it started:

The scene looks typically obnoxious and innocuous, right? But what's happening off camera? Indianapolis police Sergeant Jeffrey McCleerey says Mallon was "causing a disturbance, throwing beer on other people in the crowd, and repeatedly ignored my orders and continued to yell and curse at me and other people in the lot." Other witnesses dispute that, and insist he was arrested to send a message to Gang Green (which reacted with the passive idleness that sports fans are conditioned to exhibit throughout life).

At the 10 second mark in this next climactic video, one cop jumps out of his squad car and angrily approaches Mallon, yelling, "What the fuck did you say to me?" How the officer heard Mallon's withering slight over the rest of the jeering rabble is unclear, but in that moment the fan's fate was sealed. Back, and to the left. Back, and to the left.:

This short clip below is not essential, but perhaps of interest to the Jets fan arrest completist, or for Taser video archival purposes.

And now the denouement: As the crowd chants "BULLSHIT" over and over, one woman sagely observes, "He'll have a hell of a lawsuit." (Indeed, Mallon's father just so happens to be a lawyer.) He was released from jail after eight hours, spat out into a world without hope for a championship Jets, and he insists he didn't do anything to justify his arrest, telling the Post, "I shrugged at him and he jumped out of his car. I never thought I'd wind up in jail."

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By John Del Signore in News on January 26, 2010 1:27 PM

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JacqueMehoff

why didn't they arrest the douche with the whistle?

I'm torn over this since I hate both groups and they're both so similar.

how could they taze him through all those layers of clothing? don't those prongs need to penetrate through to the skin?

Kevin Walsh

>>>Despite the absence of frothing or whimpering, it's still video a Jets fan getting arrested, so you can't complain.

A Giants fan, John? Patriots maybe?

www.forgotten-ny.com

jaycjay

For the sake of accuracy, they're not "Indianapolis police" any more than Nassau County cops are "NYC police."

The sergeant's uniform and the marked car both are clearly Town of Speedway police. Speedway is a separate entity, though completely enclosed within Indianapolis.

No way to tell what department the unmarked car and the cop with just the "Police" vest might be from, but an Indiana news source I found says that it was a reserve officer from Whitestown -- a small town in the next county with a population of 471.

http://www.fox59.com/news/wxin-jets-fan-arrest-012510,0,6512042.story

The Whitestown PD website shows that they have four reserve cops, two regular patrol officers, a detective, two sergeants, two LTs, and the chief:

http://www.whitestownindiana.com/policeofficers.html

Apparently they both were off duty, working for the Colts as private security.

PKMKII

It's called Lucas Oil Stadium, not Indianapolis Stadium.

theevilone

Indy obvs throws the world's lamest tailgate.

longacre

Why does the video cut out right at the point where it looks like the cop might have a Taser in his hand? Was he actually shocked? Was that even a Taser? Brilliant camera work by a moronic Jets fan.

jaycjay

According to the cops, the taser wasn't actually used on him -- it was just "spark tested."

http://www.fox59.com/news/wxin-jets-fan-arrest-012510,0,6512042.story

longacre

Makes more sense. If they had actually Tased him he would be on the ground.

hunter.blatherer

That's what I thought too. I don't think football fans are any tougher than naked wizards, or even political protesters.

Still, the only way we'll see real outrage over these practices is if it happens more to real 'merkins like these. I'd love to see a bunch of Wal Mart shoppers shouting "Let them go, let them go!" as a family of meth addicts is arrested for trying to return 72 5-gallon drums of cheesy popcorn.