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I can't imagine why a cop would invent that stuff. With a .12 blood test they had plenty to justify arrest & charging, there would have been no need to add stuff.

Totally agree...I would ask those who are refusing to believe this a very simple question...how on earth would a group of officers even think of this stuff to make it up? ...and saying one officer did make it all up, all the other officers would just go along with it?!?

None so blind, as those who will not see.

[Clara Lou]

None so blind, as those who will not see.
And none so self-deluding as those who believe on flimsy, questionable evidence. When/if it comes out officially that he said these things, then I'll be further saddened for Gibson. But people like you ought to remember not to convict without evidence. One day it could happen to you.
Let's just wait for the police report--seem fair?

[Yaelle]

Exactly. There was not a Johnny Cochran-imagined huge conspiracy at the sheriff station to smear Mel. If anything, those guys were probably fans before this happened.

There is no excuse, especially not 0.21 % alcohol in the blood, for the way Mel allegedly behaved and spoke, even without the anti-Semitic slurs. And the slurs kill any respect anyone should have for the man.

This is a huge story and I think the rest of the media wants to be sure to get it right, but if it's true it will come out. And after Leno and Letterman finish with him, Gibson will make Pat Buchanan look like a chassidic rabbi in the minds of Americans.

I am wondering why they did not release the mug shot, because they always do, even Nick Nolte's.