YouTube破案:200萬人看過的視頻證明:警員宣稱他被騎單車者撞到是在說謊
Busted by YouTube: Video seen by 2m proves police officer who claimed cyclist ran into him was LYING
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 5:37 PM on 14th July 2010
A former police officer faces jail after an internet video exposed his bid to prosecute a cycling protester for running into him as a lie.
一名前警官面臨入獄,在一網絡視頻暴露他的企圖,去起訴一名騎單車抗議者撞到他,為一個謊言後。
Patrick Pogan claimed activist Christopher Long steered into him and knocked him down during a demonstration in New York.
帕特里克蒲根聲稱,活躍份子基斯托弗龍駕車撞他倒地,在一紐約舉行的示威時。
But a YouTube video seen by two million people so far has exposed him as a liar.
但一YouTube視頻至今被二百萬人看到,已暴露出他是一個騙子。
Caught on camera: Still video images show how officer Patrick Pogan knocked over Christopher Long, despite opposite claims
捕捉於相機:靜態視頻圖像顯示警官帕特里克蒲根如何撞倒基斯托弗龍,儘管宣稱相反
The video shows Pogan walking over to the cyclist and shoving him to the ground instead.
代之視頻顯示蒲根行往騎單車者,和推撞他下地上。
Mr Long was acquitted of assault charges and received a £40,000 payout from the city’s police.
Now Pogan, who was a recent recruit at the time of the protest two years ago, has been forced to quit his job in disgrace and has been convicted of lying.
The 24-year-old faces four years in jail when he is sentenced later today, although it is likely that he will be handed probation instead.
The case has highlighted the growing role of witness videos in law enforcement, and it spotlighted a history of conflict between the New York Police Department and a group of pro-cycling demonstrators.
Back in July 2008, Pogan had been assigned to keep order and watch out for traffic violations as a bike protest called Critical Mass passed through Times Square.
Participants and police already had a rocky relationship after more than 260 cyclists were arrested during a similar event before the Republican National Convention in 2004.
Pogan said he told Mr Long to stop to get ticketed for such infractions as taking his hands off his handlebars.
But the cyclist kept going, and he testified he never heard any instruction to stop.
Pogan initially reported that Mr Long steered into him and knocked him down.
But a tourist's video showed the officer striding over to the cyclist and shoving him off his bike.
The video has now been watched by more than 2million YouTube viewers.
Pogan testified that he was trying to protect himself and never meant to misrepresent what happened.
Mr Long, who wasn't seriously hurt, was charged with attempted assault and other offences.
The charges were later dropped, and the city paid the real victim $65,000 to settle a lawsuit he filed.
Pogan resigned last year from the police force.
Defence lawyer Stuart London declined to say whether Pogan, whose father is a retired NYPD detective, planned to speak at his sentencing.
Now watch the video that caught the liar out...
現在觀看捕捉到那大話精的視頻...
Critical Mass Bicyclist Assaulted by NYPD
西元2008年07月27日
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1294607/Busted-YouTube-video-watched-2m-proves-police-officer-lied-claiming-cyclist-ran-him.html
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