Guest 1:24, you seem to be operating under a misperception about how the law reads when it comes to speaking to a police officer trying to arrest you.

In that circumstance, your rights of free speech are limited, in order to tip the power balance to the authorities.

The content of his anti-Semitic words aren't the issue in a legal sense. Calling one of the female officers "sugar tits", attempting to run away from the officers when they are trying to get you in the squad, and ranting like a fucking lunatic about Jews, when paired with some dodgy behavior to match your rants (as mentioned above), does bring this to a level where, if it were Jane/John Doe, they would have been charged with resisting arrest and attempted assault of a police officer, in addition to the DUI charge.

Cops usually tolerate a lot when dealing with drunks (though the class and race exceptions to that rule can be absolutely despicable). The arresting officers were apparently trying to cut Gibson some slack. ie they offered to put him in the squad without handcuffs if he promised to be cooperative, which he apparently wasn't. But if the reports surfacing today are true, that Gibson was so out of control that one of the arresting officers actually videotaped him to cover their own ass, Gibson and the Sheriff could both be in more hot water than we are seeing right now.

I think what Gibson truly fears at this point is not so much release of the mug shot, but possible release of the videotape. Hence, the immediate damage control efforts over the weekend, before any of this gets submitted to a judge by a zealous prosecutor looking for glory come Monday morning.