Sep 8 2010 08:35 AM ET

Mel Gibson's arresting officer suing his own department

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The Sheriff’s Deputy who arrested Mel Gibson in the infamous 2006 DUI incident is suing Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, claiming he has been subject to repeated disciplinary action and overlooked for promotions since complaining that the actor received preferential treatment from police, People reports. Sheriff’s Deputy James Mee is asking for an undisclosed sum in a lawsuit against the County of Los Angeles that alleges discrimination and harassment and states that he has been singled out in a four-year investigation into who leaked the confidential arrest report to TMZ.

The suit claims that Mee, who is Jewish, was asked by superiors to delete portions of his report, “effectively participating in covering up the anti-Semitic posture of Mr. Gibson.” Gibson allegedly spewed a string of anti-Semitic statements on the night in question. The lawsuit also alleges that Gibson is a close friend of Sheriff Lee Baca and other top officials.

“My client is being retaliated against because he is a Jewish deputy,” Mee’s lawyer Etan Z. Lorant told People. “He was the most logical person for the police to investigate, but they didn’t look into any other deputies. They started with him and ended with him, even though other deputies had access to the report. They should’ve kept investigating.”

The lawsuit states that no charges were ever filed against Mee and that the case has been filed as “unresolved.”

“We categorically deny this lawsuit,” Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore told People. “This has nothing to do with ethnicity. What the sheriff’s department did was launch an investigation because someone was releasing confidential documents, which is a crime. We look forward to telling the whole story in this case.”

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  • The Jackal

    Mel was set up. Way too much of a coincidence of the timing of the arrest and the fact the arresting officer was Jewish.

    • Brooke

      Yes, because Jews are so rare! Especially in a large city like Los Angeles! (this is sarcasm, btw)

    • Trisha

      A rloling stone is worth two in the bush, thanks to this article.

  • junk

    Whatever. This really needs to be let go. Who cares. Mel’s moved on. He doesn’t hate jews. It’s just a big dead gossip fish from a night that the media keeps trying to pull up again and again.

  • Jelly Donut

    Maybe they started and stopped with him because his phone records showed calls to Harvey Levin’s house.

  • Windy

    Mel hates everyone, but he especially hates himself. That’s why he has addiction and anger problems. Even though he has talent and money, he does not have happiness and peace of mind. He appears to be a coward, hater, and addict. Shame on him for not being the example he could be for the world and for his children. Shame. Shame.

  • Ruderal Noosphere

    the famicidal Indgnistic Psychic spy manipulation systems making people around mel gibson and mel gibson himself into everything he hates. the the noosphere of the indgnistic scenario’s psychicly broadcasted onto people around mel is exactly an attack against mels personal life. the RMS (Remote Monitoring Surveiliance) is of the National clandestine Service it’s known as psychic visual spy manipulations and the psychic pqart can actually change people for the worse such as Tim Mcveigh, Andrea yates, Scott peterson, and the school shooters,. the private defense contractors in the united states are malice in futureistic payoff’s to the malice pantoglots that enginere the malice RMS scenario’s that are famicidaly indgnistic to their targeted victim. these systems mess me up since the second grade of elementary school since the age of 7 years old. the pantoglots that screwed me around since the age of 7 are the equivalent of child molester’s, rapists mureder’s and worse cause they have even caused mass murder and conspired ways of making big money from their malice implamentations that have killed so many innocent people. the private defense contractor’s are conspireing to mass engineere indignistic psychic visual assault scenario’s globaly so they will have a reason to have to build a supercomputer like (i-robot) and there’s trillions in that. I’m sure their malicely conspireing to enginere the need for it.

    • WhateverDude

      What the heck are you trying to say? Please learn to speak English before posting because your post doesn’t make any sense.

  • Ruderal Noosphere

    some idiot didn’t allow my most important comment before this one to post. who was it?!.

  • Ruderal Noosphere

    Hey Whateverdude, you need an ass whipin

  • John

    It’s better not to think about what being Jewish feels like in a world where Israel commits ethnic-cleansing warcrimes in the name of the faith and its faithful. Nope, best not to think about it all.

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