AP report on cop assault on bicylist - no youtube link

Why do the AP and other major news sources refuse to give web links on their stories when youtube videos are mentioned in the stories?  Do they not want people to see the actual evidence of what happened when it is recorded on video?

Associated Press

July 28, 2008 at 9:41 PM EDT

NEW YORK — Police stripped a New York City officer of his badge and gun Monday after a video posted on YouTube showed him bodychecking a bicyclist who was part of a Times Square demonstration.

The video was recorded Friday at the Critical Mass ride, a monthly protest of urban reliance on motor vehicles.

The video, posted anonymously, shows the officer standing in the street as bikes whiz past. He moves toward a cyclist and violently knocks him to the ground in front of crowds of people.

See part of the AP story below, WITH a link to the youtube video.  

Link via boingboing

There are dozens of sites reporting the AP story - but I could only find the boingboing site with a link to or embedded video.

The AP, all the news that they choose to hide.

Is there any doubt that this cop committed an assault on the bike rider?