Mel Gibson Got Special Police Treatment After Jew Rant: Report

If you want the police to go easy on you after you've been arrested for driving a car drunk, perhaps you should try screaming a hate-filled rant about how rubbish Jewish people are, because it worked for Mel Gibson.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department yesterday released its report into the DUI arrest of Mel Gibson last year, and it turns out that Mel got plenty of special treatment from the police. Apparently police attempted to hide aspects of Mel Gibson's arrest from the public, didn't sign all the necessary paperwork and even gave him a lift back to his car after he was released. Worst of all, Mel Gibson was also ignored by the female police office who he drunkenly bellowed "What are you looking at, Sugartits?" to, when official police procedure required her to curtsy, giggle into her handkerchief and reply "Why thank you kind sir" in the style of a wealthy plantation owner's daughter from 1860s Virginia.

Although 2007 has undoubtedly been the year of celebrity imprisonment - Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, Lindsay Lohan, Foxy Brown, Bobby Brown, Tom Sizemore, Lane Garrison, Amy Winehouse's husband and Kiefer Sutherland have all spent some time in the can this year - but the world's best-ever celebrity arrest didn't happen this year, or even end up with a jail sentence.

We're talking, of course, about Mel Gibson - who last summer set a new high watermark for ridiculous celebrity arrests when police stopped him speeding through Malibu at 87mph with an open bottle of tequila in his car, only for Mel to start screaming about how he owned Malibu, how he'd "fuck" the arresting officer, how all the "fucking Jews" were responsible for every war in the history of time and how one of the policewomen had breasts that looked a little bit like monosaccharide.

The social fallout from Mel Gibson's arrest was so huge that he almost destroyed his career - because of the Jew bit and not the drink-driving bit, everyone does that - but the legal repercussions weren't that huge at all. Mel Gibson avoided jail and was hit with a watered-down probation and alcohol-education course punishment instead.

And although it happened close to 18 months ago, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has only just got round to working out what it did wrong when it arrested Mel Gibson.

In a report released yesterday that investigated the arrests of Mel Gibson and Paris Hilton - who was booked by the book, by the way - the Sheriff's Department has uncovered all sorts of special treatment that Mel Gibson got from the police during and after his arrest last year. Not only did police officers attempt to cover up the whole "fucking Jews" thing, but it's also been revealed that they didn't take Mel Gibson's palmprint when he was released from the police station, neglected to tell their superiors that he was being released, didn't bother signing the proper paperwork and then gave Mel a lift to the tow yard where his car was.

In all, this investigation has led to one two-day suspension and two written reprimands within the force. But more than that, the report is rock-hard proof that you get given a much easier ride when you break the law if you're famous than if you aren't.

Unless you're Paris Hilton. And if you are, we can only sympathise with you.

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Policy Violations Found in Gibson Arrest - Associated Press