YouTube video triggers probe
- Share via
Police stripped a New York City officer of his badge and gun pending an investigation after a video posted on YouTube showed him body-checking a bicyclist during the Critical Mass ride, a protest of reliance on motor vehicles.
The video shows officer Patrick Pogan, 23, standing in the street as bikes whiz past. He moves toward a cyclist and violently knocks him to the ground. The cyclist, who was not seriously hurt, was arrested and charged with attempted assault, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
More to Read
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
The latest effort is coming from the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. They just announced a $3 million program in conjunction with some nonprofits groups to test and clean the soil at homes still standing in the areas impacted by the Eaton Fire.
California once bet big on offshore wind to help power its clean-energy future, but the Trump administration is now paying developers billions to walk away from their projects. As California’s remaining offshore-wind leases hang in the balance, the state is fighting back in court.
The Hillside Strangler murders terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s. The killers were a pair of sadistic cousins. One confessed. The other was set to stand trial—until L.A. prosecutors flinched.
