Just as we predicted, Patrick Pogan won’t be doing any jail time or getting probation for violently cross-checking cyclist Christopher Long, but on the bright side, at least he’ll never be able to rejoin the police force.
Disgraced ex-cop Patrick Pogan will be sentenced today for lying about his now infamous body-check of cyclist Christopher Long. Although he was acquitted, amazingly, for the assault charge, he was found guilty of falsifying records and filing a false police report, which ould carry a sentence of four years behind bars, but in all likelihoods won’t. |NY1|
After a few days of deliberations, a jury found ex-cop Patrick Pogan guilty of being a lying scumbag, but totally innocent of assaulting Christopher Long, which is pretty amazing. Did these people not watch the same video as everyone else? Moral of the story: In NYC not even ex-cops get convicted of assault, even when blatantly caught on video. He could face up to four years in prison—ha, yeah right! |NYDN|
Disgraceful bike shoving ex-cop, Patrick Pogan, finally acknowledged the obvious: he’s a lying asshole.
Patrick Pogan, the disgraceful ex-NYPD rookie who viciously pummeled cyclist Christopher Long two years ago testified in open court today for the first time since the incident and of course, he lied. If you even care to hear his bullshit, click here or just press play for the common sense version of events.
Prosecutors produced a second video which clearly shows Christopher Long getting pummeled off his bike by then officer Patrick Pogan for no reason, directly contradicting the ex-cop’s account, claiming the cyclist swerved towards him. And thank god for these videos, because Long is saying some not so smart stuff while testifying: Read more »
Remember Patrick Pogan? He’s the disgraceful ex-cop who resigned from the NYPD after a video surfaced of him body checking cyclist Christopher Long during a Critical Mass ride that directly contradicted the police report he falsified. Anyway, his trial begins today and according to New York’s trashiest tabloid, his defense lawyer is somehow going to convince jurors that his client should be exonerated because Long smoked some weed 7 years earlier while in the Army. Please let that be their strategy.
Cyclist Sues for $1.5 Million Over Cop’s Assault
A cyclist assaulted by a former rookie cop in Times Square last year is filing a $1.5 million lawsuit against the NYPD for attempting to cover up the unprovoked attack. 30-year-old Christopher Long was bicycling through Times Square as part of a July 2008 Critical Mass ride when then-cop Patrick Pogan, just three weeks on the job, tackled him to the pavement. Read more »
Justice has been served today thanks to some video, YouTube, and the common sense of the Manhattan DA. All charges were dropped against Christopher Long, he’s the innocent cyclist who was brutally shoved to the ground by live at home bully cop Patrick Pogan. After a clip of the incident quickly spread online and word got out of Pogan’s perjurious statement claiming he was the victim, outrage swelled quickly beyond just the usual civil rights and Critical Mass crowd. Pretty much anyone who saw the clip besides evangelical law enforcement types were convinced of the wrongdoing. No word yet on Pogan’s punishment—he “was stripped of his badge and gun and placed on desk duty pending the completion of an investigation into his conduct.” That should be easy: guilty! |CityRoom|
The video of rookie cop Patrick E. Pogan (shield #28957) violently body checking cyclist Christopher Long during a Critical Mass group ride has a lot of people wondering what motivated him to act in such a blatantly egregious manner. Contrary to the video evidence and universal common sense, the cop (deponent) claimed—in a sworn statement—that Long swerved and then ran into him, “causing deponent to fall to the ground and causing deponent to suffer lacerations on deponent’s forearms” (PDF doc here). However, as the clip demonstrates, that’s not the case and the attack was unprovoked. Why is Officer Perjurer Pogan so angry? ANIMAL takes a look into some of the potential, hostility-causing factors: UPDATE: All charges dropped!
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