+ 28 Days Later, the post-apocalyptic film in which a virus turns everyone Londoner into kill, at McCarren Park Pool. (8 PM at McCarren Park Pool, North 11th and Driggs Ave, Brooklyn)

+ Captured, the film on documentarian Clayton Patterson’s documentation of the Lower East Side, plays at Webster Hall. (7 PM at Webster Hall, 125 East 11th Street, Manhattan)

+ Fiasco Tour Kick Off - Ninjasonik, Fiasco, The Homosexuals, Pony Pants, The So So Glos, and Bat Attack! play an all ages show at the Market Hotel. ($8 at 8 PM at the Market Hotel, 1142 Myrtle Ave at Broadway, Brooklyn)

Tomorrow Morning

+ 8/6 - Protest ‘Cops Gone Wild’ - If you’re outraged by latest incidents of police brutality, join electeds, social justice and civil rights groups in the call for an end to the harassment, intimidation and physical assault of New Yorkers by NYPD Officers. (10 AM at One Police Plaza, Manhattan)

Know something happening? Get in touch.

Still from 28 Days Later.

According to the Daily News, Patrick Pogan, the 22 year-old officer who carried out Friday’s assault on a cyclist during Critical Mass, was stripped off his badge and gun, and is now assigned to desk duty pending an investigation. ANIMAL looks at the court documents and notes:

“Contrary to the video evidence and universal common sense, the cop (deponent) claimed—in a sworn statement—that Long swerved and then ran into him, “causing deponent to fall to the ground and causing deponent to suffer lacerations on deponent’s forearms” . However, as the clip demonstrates, that’s not the case and the attack was unprovoked.”

[ANIMAL]

A video camera caught a NYPD officer running and violently shoving a man off his bicycle onto the sidewalk in Times Square, during Friday night’s Critical Mass ride. After being assaulted by the police officer, “the cyclist in this video was arrested, held for 26 hours, and charged with attempted assault and resisting arrest.” That is some bullshit. [Gothamist]

Last Saturday over 1300 attendees showed up for the 4th annual Grassroots Media Conference, sponsored by the Grassroots Media Coalition and Paper Tiger Television. Panels, presentations, installations and films covered topics as wide-ranging as the genocide in Darfur, the NYC ghost bike project, police brutality, and hip hop activism (and plenty of it)… all with the common goal of using media as a tool for social justice.

As part of the all-day film festival, NYC-based Glass Bead Collective presented their short “50 Shots and a Mule – Part 1″, a documentary that covers the December 16th protests of the Sean Bell shooting. Part 2 - not shown on Sat. but also available at the site - was filmed at the following march on Wall St. on December 22nd and is shot in part with 360-degree cam that gives a full view of the police surveillance of protestors. GBC documents creative and political dissent, and includes members from backgrounds in video art, film, theater, architecture, photography, music, mathematics, fine arts and philosophy.