More on the rogue cop that violently pushed a Critical Mass cyclist off his bike: the Daily News says he's a 22-year-old rookie named Patrick Pogan; the Post says he's been on the job for just three weeks. Pogan's father, a former NYPD detective, told the News, "You gotta do what you gotta do to make an arrest." Update: Smoking Gun has some of the cop's fanciful testimony. Excerpt after the jump: Basically Pogan states that the cyclist, Christopher Long, was weaving his bike in and out of the lane and disrupting traffic. (He may or may not have been, as we can't see that part in the video.) But the next part is really good: the cop (listed below as the deponent) claims that the cyclist drove into him purposely, causing the cop to fall and suffer cuts and bruises. ANYWAY:

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