Video nasties put heat on NY cops

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2008

NEW YORK (AFP) — A New York man is clubbed in the street. Another rammed off his bike. Another beaten. Luckily, it's all on film. Unluckily, police are the ones seen doing the beating.

The New York City Police Department (NYPD) encourages witnesses to shoot footage of crimes -- but officers were less happy last week when the camera turned on some of their own.

In the first of three incidents, a hulking cop body-checked and sent flying a cyclist at a pro-bicycle rally known as Critical Mass.

In the second a policeman bludgeoned a man on the ground, held down by another of New York's finest, the thwacks almost as loud as the man's cries.

Passersby filmed and published both incidents, the Times Square bicycle body check alone getting 1.2 million YouTube...