Gary Oldman assumed the officer who arrested Mel Gibson during his infamous DUI rant is one of many “f–king hypocrites” polluting the world, and most likely said racial or Jewish slurs in his lifetime, but now that officer is defending himself.
“I’m Jewish and why would I say that to discredit my own religious makeup?” former L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputy James Mee told TMZ. “The N-word is a scary word. I would never even dream of using it. It sickens me that anyone would use that word.”
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Oldman let loose on Hollywood — and the state of the world, in general (we’re doomed, by the way) — during a Playboy interview in which he was asked about Mel Gibson‘s fall from grace after the 2006 arrest.