NYPD: There was a video? Damn! Damn! Damn! Damn!

I tell ya folks, police everywhere want taking video of them made illegal. It takes all the fun out of work.

A cyclist knocked off his bike by a rookie cop last summer is suing the NYPD for $1.5million on Tuesday for trying to cover up the shocking attack, which was taped and put on YouTube.

Lawyers for farmer Christopher Long, 30, are charging inpapers to be filed today in Manhattan Federal Court that former Police Officer Patrick Pogan, 23, tried to conceal the truth about the July 2008 tackle.

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