Posted on 07/28/2006 10:12:47 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
TMZ has learned that Mel Gibson went on a rampage when he was arrested Friday on suspicion of drunk driving, hurling religious epithets. TMZ has also learned that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department had the initial report doctored to keep the real story under wraps.
TMZ has four pages of the original report prepared by the arresting officer in the case, L.A. County Sheriff's Deputy James Mee. According to the report, Gibson became agitated after he was stopped on Pacific Coast Highway and told he was to be detained for drunk driving Friday morning in Malibu. The actor began swearing uncontrollably. Gibson repeatedly said, "My life is f****d." Law enforcement sources say the deputy, worried that Gibson might become violent, told the actor that he was supposed to cuff him but would not, as long as Gibson cooperated. As the two stood next to the hood of the patrol car, the deputy asked Gibson to get inside. Deputy Mee then walked over to the passenger door and opened it. The report says Gibson then said, "I'm not going to get in your car," and bolted to his car. The deputy quickly subdued Gibson, cuffed him and put him inside the patrol car.
Once inside the car, a source directly connected with the case says Gibson began banging himself against the seat. The report says Gibson told the deputy, "You mother f****r. I'm going to f*** you." The report also says "Gibson almost continually [sic] threatened me saying he 'owns Malibu' and will spend all of his money to 'get even' with me."
The report says Gibson then launched into a barrage of anti-Semitic statements: "F*****g Jews... The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world." Gibson then asked the deputy, "Are you a Jew?"
The deputy became alarmed as Gibson's tirade escalated, and called ahead for a sergeant to meet them when they arrived at the station. When they arrived, a sergeant began videotaping Gibson, who noticed the camera and then said, "What the f*** do you think you're doing?"
A law enforcement source says Gibson then noticed another female sergeant and yelled, "What do you think you're looking at, sugar tits?"
We're told Gibson took two blood alcohol tests, which were videotaped, and continued saying how "f****d" he was and how he was going to "f***" Deputy Mee.
Gibson was put in a cell with handcuffs on. He said he needed to urinate, and after a few minutes tried manipulating his hands to unzip his pants. Sources say Deputy Mee thought Gibson was going to urinate on the floor of the booking cell and asked someone to take Gibson to the bathroom.
After leaving the bathroom, Gibson then demanded to make a phone call. He was taken to a pay phone and, when he didn't get a dial tone, we're told Gibson threw the receiver against the phone. Deputy Mee then warned Gibson that if he damaged the phone he could be charged with felony vandalism. We're told Gibson was then asked, and refused, to sign the necessary paperwork and was thrown in a detox cell.
Deputy Mee then wrote an eight-page report detailing Gibson's rampage and comments. Sources say the sergeant on duty felt it was too "inflammatory." A lieutenant and captain then got involved and calls were made to Sheriff's headquarters. Sources say Mee was told Gibson's comments would incite a lot of "Jewish hatred," that the situation in Israel was "way too inflammatory." It was mentioned several times that Gibson, who wrote, directed, and produced 2004's "The Passion of the Christ," had incited "anti-Jewish sentiment" and "For a drunk driving arrest, is this really worth all that?"
We're told Deputy Mee was then ordered to write another report, leaving out the incendiary comments and conduct. Sources say Deputy Mee was told the sanitized report would eventually end up in the media and that he could write a supplemental report that contained the redacted information -- a report that would be locked in the watch commander's safe.
Initially, a Sheriff's official told TMZ the arrest occurred "without incident." On Friday night, Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore told TMZ: "The L.A. County Sheriff's Department investigation into the arrest of Mr. Gibson on suspicion of driving under the influence will be complete and will contain every factual piece of evidence. Nothing will be sanitized. There was absolutely no favoritism shown to this suspect or any other. When this file is presented to the Los Angeles County District Attorney, it will contain everything. Nothing will be left out."
Gibson's rep Alan Nierob tells TMZ: "We are unaware of any of the information you mentioned in your email pertaining to a police report."
Nah. Hollyweird will embrace him as one of their own and forgive him for "Passion". ;)
I doubt that.
I don't know how this would apply to someone if they had been on the wagon for awhile and started drinking again.
Is there something in the water out there that makes people crazy?
We'll see....
I think he fell off the wagon big time with all the stress over the Passion. After that movie, he was acting pretty nuts (well even more nuts)and seemed to age about 20 years which I suspect is from the booze. Also, a big side effect from alcoholism is self destruction which may be the reason for his comments. It all becomes about the booze after a while, and if the career or job gets in the way of that, you destroy it, conciously or subconciously, so you will have more time to drink (take it from one who knows). I mean what is the WORST possible thing he could have said to screw up his career? Mel has a huge booze problem, and to me that is the reason he said "My life is f****d." Now it probably really is because they taped everything he said.
It doesn't change the truth of the movie. :)
I am one who knows as well. I believe your observation is spot on. And, like you, when I read "I'm F**KED, the first thing I thought of was that he wasn't talking about his career, he was talking about his family. If it's all out in the open...well...you know.
I wasn't ranting. I transposed the decimal in the alcohol level, sorry, I meant .12, and I forgot the arresting officer was in the Sheriff's dept and not LAPD. My mistakes.
Still, I do believe the officer(s) and I cannot by any wild stretch condone what Mel Gibson did. Can you?
Gibson netted, according to reports, nearly $700 million from The Passion.
His "career" is managing his money; he doesn't have to do any more movies, though he directs more now than acts in them.
Ahhhh...I see you have finally come to embrace reality. TMZ (Time-Warner/AOL) obviously has a friend inside the LAPD; aside from that, they would never make up a story as radioactive as this one.
At first, the cops tried to sanitize the circumstances of the arrest, but the arresting PO was evidently PO'd enough to write everything down very carefully. In my opinion, it went down as the officer wrote it. And, IMO, this episode has tainted the movie that his fans always denied had any Jew-hatred in it. Harder to defend now, eh?
OK, I'll revise that so people stop writing to me....TO ME, his career is over....added to the list of people I will not give money to anymore. OK? :)
In addition, your career has nothing to do with how much money you have.
Are you kidding? His behavior and words have eliminated all possibilities of his having any class at all.
Me, I'm not about to cast aspersions on anyone who babbles incoherently after having had one too many.
You could fill me full of Chivas, tequila, beer, heroin, or chocolate and I would never swear at the police. I would never speak ill of any race or religion.
To this very minute, all the radio newscasts still say that he was brought in without incident, and that an investigation is pending.
When you're intoxicated your judgment is GONE or at the very least compromised. You are NOT your true self.
Understand, I am not making excuses for Mel Gibson's behavior. As a recovering alcoholic, his fatal mistake was taking that first drink.
I never said that I would condone that kind of behaviour. But I certainly understand losing your way and being lost.
I went through holy hell two years ago here because I was hypercritical of Gibson. I didn't see The Passion until this past year, and I thought it was gratuitously bloody and went overboard with all the satan fantasies, taken from the "visions" of Catherine Emmerich.
My knee-jerk defense of him last night was, I'll admit, due to not believing he would rant about Jews in public.
This convinces me that he is just as weird as I thought he was. Worse, he appears to have absorbed his dad's anti-semitism like a sponge.
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