Another officer behaving badly on video

The YouTube video poster discarted is something of a photographer-activist, mostly in a good way, or you could also read that as troublemaker too. But on Wednesday he posted video from February of an LAPD officer in Hollywood getting out of line, quoting non-existent law then citing the non-law to stop the photog and demand his ID. Of course, the photog did ask for it — he should have given the officer some room rather than lurking at his back during a traffic stop — but the officer's claim that the law doesn't allow taking street pictures "of an American citizen" is a little embarrassing. Worse, once he got frustrated he lashed out at the photog repeatedly as a "fruitcake."

Meanwhile: LAPD Chief Charlie Beck turned up at a meeting with bicycle activists over Friday night's clash between Hollywood officers and riders.