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Yes, this is the New York Post, not the Indianapolis Star newspaper. Still....Shocker! Cops taser Jet fan
By RICH CALDER in Indianapolis and DAVID K. LI in New York
Last Updated: 8:14 AM, January 25, 2010
Posted: 5:28 AM, January 25, 2010
The Jets’ loss wasn’t the only thing that shocked Gang Green fans yesterday.
Cops sacked a Jet diehard before the big game, throwing him against a squad car outside the stadium and then zapping him with a Taser — all while the young man’s dad watched in disbelief, witnesses said.
The arresting officer claimed Patrick Mallon, 26, had been belligerent and threw beer at other tailgate revelers.
But Mallon told The Post after his late-night hearing, “I did not throw beer at anybody. I was angry with the police for trying to go through the crowd like that.
“But I’m more angry with what they did to me.”
Mallon, wearing a throwback Wesley Walker Jet jersey, had been engaged in playful pregame taunting with passing Colt fans at a Jet-heavy tailgate party outside Lucas Oil Stadium when the cops entered the fray.
The officers told the verbally jousting fans and Jet diehards to move along — but Mallon, of Brick, NJ, apparently didn’t move fast enough, witnesses, including his dad, told The Post.
Cops grabbed the construction worker, threw him against their patrol car, punched him in the back of the head and then Tasered him, the witnesses said.
Cops claimed Mallon was “causing a disturbance, throwing beer on other people in the crowd,” according to a report by Sgt. Jeffrey McCleerey, of the Speedway, Ind., police.
“[Mallon] repeatedly ignored my orders and continued to yell and curse at me and other people in the lot,”McCleerey claimed.
He was charged with disorderly conduct and public intoxication.
After more than eight hours in jail, Mallon paid a $150 fine and was released. The case will be dismissed if he stays out of trouble for two years.
The suspect and his dad — Thomas Mallon, a criminal defense lawyer from Freehold, NJ —denied the police report.
“I’m dumbfounded,” Thomas Mallon said. “He did nothing wrong.”
The dad said Patrick, cuffed in the back of a cop car after the Tasering, urged his dad and brother to go to the game and pick him up later. The lawyer dad did as his client son wished.
“His last words to me were, ‘Go, Jets!’ ” the dad said after the 30-17 Gang Green loss.
Whether Patrick Mallon did anything to warrant the rough treatment depended on whatcolor the witness was wearing — Colt blue or Jet green.
Colt fan Peter Malloy, of Indianapolis, said the police were working hard to move traffic in the quickly filling parking lot.
“All the cops were doing was trying to park cars,” Malloy said. “The Jets fan didn’t realize that, and he got a little rowdy. And now he’s not watching the game.”
But Jet backer Barry Kreviston, 46, of Chicago, said the cops could have been flagged for unnecessary roughness.
“The kid said something to the cop through the window that he didn’t like, so they decided to make an example of him,” he said. “It was total bulls- -t.”
Thomas Mallon and his two adult sons were staying in a hotel across the street from the stadium, aaspotted a big tailgate party and decided to join it.
A short time later, cops showed up and told them to move along. Thomas Mallon, 54, admitted his son could have hustled a bit more.
“He should have gotten out of the way and moved faster, instead of sticking out like a sore thumb,” the dad conceded.
“He gestured something to the police — not the finger or anything like that — and the next thing you know, the officer came out and threw him up against the car.
“I just kept yelling, ‘Pat, Pat, just calm down and go with them.’ They Tasered him, I was right there. I could hear it.”

no way a sworn officer of the LAW would ever behave in such a manner. This guy obviously deserved what he got and is probably just trying to get a lawsuit going.
no way a sworn officer of the LAW would ever behave in such a manner. This guy obviously deserved what he got and is probably just trying to get a lawsuit going.


as always I've no idea what really happened here. I mean, one could guess.....Anyway, every game I've been to in countless stadiums, doesn't matter what jersey anyone wears - it's the drunks who get themselves into trouble. Even in their own stadiums.By and large, am sure most Jets fans behaved. But the penchant for one idiot a week getting into the papers is disturbing.
it's not on the cover now. is your 15 minutes of fame up?