Beaten, arrested, held for two days

The YouTube video was an instant hit in the gay blogosphere.

Three Los Angeles police officers were shown on live television approaching a Proposition 8 protester who had broken through a police line. Officers then took the man down, hitting him with batons before arresting him.

The man was Kevin Miniter, 25, a gay activist. And in his first interview about the Nov. 5 incident, which was captured on video by a local TV news helicopter crew, Miniter told the Blade that events culminating in his arrest began earlier that day.See Beaten, arrested, held for two days