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From: LindyBill7/30/2006 7:52:07 PM
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Aha!

We know all this because TMZ.com, a celebrity-gossip site, obtained some pages of the police report for Gibson's arrest and (bless its heart) posted them online. The Los Angeles Times subsequently confirmed the pages' authenticity. Before Gibson's outbursts were made public, according to TMZ.com, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department was pressuring the arresting officer, Sheriff's Deputy James Mee, to eliminate from his report Gibson's specific remarks on the grounds that they would "incite Jewish hatred" at a time when conditions in the Middle East were "way too inflammatory." (Yes, our nation's foreign policy is apparently run by California flatfoots.) According to the LA Times, the Sheriff's civilian oversight board will now investigate whether a cover-up was attempted. Gibson, for his part, issued the following apology:

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