Radley Balko points out another video of the New York Police Department assaulting people and then charging them with crimes, lying in their depositions. Not small discrepancies, understandable errors of recollection, but plain lies boldly contradicting the video footage. What the footage shows is cops assaulting people.

You can thank us "activist bikers" later for being in the vanguard of resistance to the police state. (Yes, I'm one of these types, though not in New York.) It's not often people expose the ugly center of police work.

One of my inner circle was once charged with a crime, and at the deposition that we attended we heard the officer testify under oath to things which we knew to be plainly false. We prodded the lawyer to object, and he said it wasn't even worth the time: police lie all the time, and they're going to be believed in court.

Well, that lying bastard was believed in court. I'm sure he was right back on the street, harassing people and lying about it later.

This happens all the time. This happens everywhere.