N.Y. cop caught bullying
A New York City cop had to give up his gun and his badge after getting caught on a videotape knocking a young man off his bicycle during a peaceful demonstration in Times Square. The video, which has been posted on YouTube, shows several cyclists – participating in the monthly Critical Mass ride – pedaling past police officers who stood in the street. The officer can be seen moving toward one cyclist, whom he body-checks with so much force that the man is sent crashing to the sidewalk. Perhaps the most incredible thing about the officer’s behavior is that the scores of people watching him wasn’t enough to deter his actions. The officer has been placed on desk duty until the incident has been investigated.

The Rev. C.A.W. Clark was pastor at the first Black mega-church in Dallas.
The Rev. C.A.W. Clark, a renowned Dallas minister – named by Ebony magazine as one of America’s 15 greatest African-American preachers of the 20th century, has died. He was 93. For more than a half-century, Caesar Arthur Walter Clark served as pastor of Dallas’ Good Street Baptist Church, which many consider the city’s first Black mega-church. “This is the passing of an era. We won’t see his likes again,” the Rev. Gerald Britt Jr., a vice president at Central Dallas Ministries, told The Dallas Morning News. “He was a master of the pulpit. He influenced generations of preachers.” Ordained in 1933, the Shreveport, La., native got his first assignment as pastor at Israelite Baptist Church in Longstreet, La. He was 19 at the time. He took over at Good Street in 1950. “Everybody who know anything about black Baptist life is familiar with C.A.W. Clark,” said Cleophus LaRue, author of The Heart of Black Preaching, in a 2006 interview with the Dallas newspaper. “He was regarded as one of the great black preachers in the 20th century.” He was 78 in 1993 when Ebony listed him among the 15 greatest Black preachers and “the most sought-after revival preacher there is.”