In the annals of police Taser porn, this series of short videos can't possibly compete with the naked wizard Coachella Tasering, to say nothing of the trailblazing "Don't Tase me, bro!" Nevertheless, to bring things full circle, we have a duty to publish these clips, showing a Jets fan getting arrested and supposedly Tasered at a tailgate party outside Indianapolis stadium Sunday. (Despite the absence of frothing or whimpering, it's still video a Jets fan getting arrested, so you can't complain.) Patrick Mallon, a 26-year-old Garden State construction worker, was ultimately charged with disorderly conduct and public intoxication, and missed watching his precious Jets lose to the Colts. Here's how it started:
The scene looks typically obnoxious and innocuous, right? But what's happening off camera? Indianapolis police Sergeant Jeffrey McCleerey says Mallon was "causing a disturbance, throwing beer on other people in the crowd, and repeatedly ignored my orders and continued to yell and curse at me and other people in the lot." Other witnesses dispute that, and insist he was arrested to send a message to Gang Green (which reacted with the passive idleness that sports fans are conditioned to exhibit throughout life).
At the 10 second mark in this next climactic video, one cop jumps out of his squad car and angrily approaches Mallon, yelling, "What the fuck did you say to me?" How the officer heard Mallon's withering slight over the rest of the jeering rabble is unclear, but in that moment the fan's fate was sealed. Back, and to the left. Back, and to the left.:
This short clip below is not essential, but perhaps of interest to the Jets fan arrest completist, or for Taser video archival purposes.
And now the denouement: As the crowd chants "BULLSHIT" over and over, one woman sagely observes, "He'll have a hell of a lawsuit." (Indeed, Mallon's father just so happens to be a lawyer.) He was released from jail after eight hours, spat out into a world without hope for a championship Jets, and he insists he didn't do anything to justify his arrest, telling the Post, "I shrugged at him and he jumped out of his car. I never thought I'd wind up in jail."
