SOME READERS THOUGHT I WAS TOO HARD ON THE L.A. District Attorney’s office about the arrest of beating-videographer Mitch Crooks. They pointed out that he had outstanding warrants. (Yeah, but go try to get someone arrested on outstanding warrants sometime and you’ll see how little that means). But now the L.A. Examiner is reporting that Crooks is hospitalized with injuries received as a result of the arrest.

I said before it looked like witness intimidation. Now it really does. This stinks.

Memo to John Ashcroft: sounds like it’s time for a federal investigation.