LAPD Clears Dodgers Beating Suspect

The LAPD has arrested two new men in connection with the near-fatal beating of a Giants fan at Dodger Stadium after clearing the fan cops busted in May. Police had expressed confidence that parolee Giovanni Ramirez was the man they were after but they had struggled to build a case against him, the Los Angeles Times reports.

"I always believed he was factually innocent," Ramirez's lawyer says. "There was a lot of pressure on LAPD. I believe that they were operating in good faith and made a good faith mistake." Father-of-two Bryan Stow suffered a traumatic brain injury in the March attack and has been in a coma ever since. He had emergency surgery this week after suffering a seizure. (More Bryan Stow stories.)