The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputy who arrested Mel Gibson on drunk-driving charges details in a lawsuit efforts by superiors to remove the actor's anti-Semitic slurs from an initial arrest report.

Deputy James Mee said that after he documented Gibson's rant in his report, a supervisor told him that the material was "not acceptable" because the anti-Semitic comments were irrelevant to the DUI.

Mee said he was asked to remove Gibson's comments from the initial report and include them in a supplementary report that would not have been immediately available to the public.

"That makes it look like an afterthought," he said. "In front of a jury, I would look like an idiot."

He said he eventually followed a lieutenant's order to write separate reports. A memo from the Los Angeles County district attorney's office later confirmed that Mee was instructed to write a supplemental report to be placed in a locked safe along with a recording of Gibson's booking and a bottle of tequila found with Gibson.