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|
Sgt. Timothy Horohoe, like Patrick Pogan, was also caught assaulting a cyclist during a Critical Mass ride and then lying about it, but unlike the latter, the video of his infraction wasn’t as incriminating since most of the action happened off camera. Read more »
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 »
While surveillance cameras are rarely a successful tool in preventing crime, they do come in handy after the fact, when it comes to identifying criminals and cops now too. The New York Times reports how, increasingly, cameras are playing a role in gathering “evidence against police officers accused of misconduct.” Officer Patrick Pogan was eventually fired after video proved he was a liar, but his case was just one of many against law enforcement, like Detective Debra Eager. She was “indicted on three felony perjury charges after her testimony before a grand jury about a 2007 drug arrest “starkly contradicted” video surveillance of the event.” |NYT|
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