get the Video feed @ Subscribe to the PAR podcast at -- From mild Phoenix Arizona, this is your News for the week, The New year is starting with some controversy with the ST Louis Police after a a YouTube video appearing to show a police officer beating a man with his baton was posted online. The incident occurred on New Year's Day The officer appears to push the man to the ground, hit him with his baton seven times, use pepper spray on him, and then handcuff the man and walk him toward the gas station, which contains a police substation. The video had been taken down from Youtube temporarily because the video violates the site's standards for "shocking and disgusting content." Later the video was working again, but only for users who sign in and say they are 18 or older. A police spokeswoman said the department had not asked YouTube to remove the video. Police said no one had filed a complaint about the incident and the department first heard about the video once the local media started asking questions. St. Louis police said in a statement: "While all of the circumstances of the incident are not known, what is seen on the video is extremely disturbing to us," "Force is to be used only when absolutely necessary and this department takes the use of force very seriously." The deparment has not identified the officer but The owner of the gas station says the officer was off-duty and was there working security. Youtube video: ---------------------------- The West Have register reports that a Washington DC cop who allegedly brandished a semi-automatic weapon during a closing-time argument with bouncers faces reckless endangerment and other charges. Danny McCullough III, allegedly pointed the weapon at the ground as he was being escorted out of the busy local bar at closing time.?he initially fled the scene and was chased down by police, told officers the gun was his duty weapon and that he pulled it out ...