cry baby piggie!!!! if you can't take getting beat up don't take the job!!!! and your not really stopping crime. liquor law violations are victimless crimes that harm no one and just allow the government rulers to shake down us citizens for money Original Article Officer beaten outside Tempe bar battles to recover Katie Nelson The Arizona Republic Dec. 2, 2005 02:16 PM The punch knocked James Click out. The Tempe police sergeant wasn't conscious for at least a half hour. The impact broke his eye socket, broke his nose, fractured his cheekbone. Two weeks after being hit while on duty outside a Tempe bar, Click still struggles with the ordeal that shook the department and his family. "One of the hardest things was seeing the looks on my family's faces, to see the looks on my children's faces when they saw me," he said. "It scared them. My little boy asked me if I was going to die." Click had surgery to repair his face, and now is home, waiting for his bones to heal. He can't drive because his concussion was so severe it affected his vision. "It was hard going from being in charge of everything and being in control to coming home and not being able to walk up the stairs by myself." And he's still trying to calm his children, ages 6, 8 and 12. One was afraid to look at or talk with Click while he was in the hospital. "They still feel like they are in danger and I'm in danger," he said. "It rattled them so much that I think this is the first time they realized that it is a bad world out there sometimes and Dad can get hurt." That realization isn't new for many in Click's family, though. His father, brother and sister are all police officers. His father, Ben, was with Phoenix Police Department for 29 years and later served as the Dallas police chief. His brother, Tim,is a sergeant for the Chandler Police Department. His sister, Katherine, is a Tempe police bike officer. Click is anxious to get back to his job. Part of it is boredom - he said he's tired of surfing the Internet and watching TV. Mainly though, it's out of drive: "I want to get back and get back into the game." While he recovers over the next few weeks, he's at home, reliving the punch in his head. Click can't remember what happened after it came. He woke up in the ambulance. Yet he vividly remembers what happened leading up to the hit. Click oversees a squad of roaming patrol officers call the ACTION team - short for Attacking Crime Trends In Our Neighborhoods - for the Tempe Police Department. The squad was almost done with its shift, having started the workday at 4 p.m. on Nov. 17 and spent the hours undercover, patrolling bars for liquor violations. The squad got a call to come help with a fight about 2 a.m.; ACME Roadhouse Bar was in the process of closing and when they got to ACME a fistful of fights were in progress in the parking lot. As the officers ran toward the melee, Click peeled off a green shirt to reveal one with POLICE on the black fabric, in bright yellow lettering. Click said he ran toward one fight, and the men punching each other took off. He headed toward another fight. Three guys were piled on top of a fourth man. They held him down, punching him in the face. Click grabbed one of the punching men, while reaching into the back pocket of his jeans for handcuffs. The next thing he remembers was coming to in the ambulance. Investigators say Nicholas Patrick Johnson, 21, punched Click in the head. Johnson, at 6 feet 4, 275 pounds, is a former Chandler High School and Arizona State University football player. Johnson was arrested outside the bar that night and was booked into Maricopa County Jail on suspicion of felony and misdemeanor assault. "From the time we took the call to the time I was knocked out was probably two minutes," Click said. "I never saw the punch coming."