Bicyclist assaults NYPD officer

[Trigood]

According to the complaint against him, some crazed bicyclist deliberately steered his bicycle into some poor cop just trying to do his job, knocking the police officer to the ground.

from MSNBC
And here's the proof...



Man, I hope these charges stick. Your family could be the next victim of this two-wheeled menace.

Hippies.

anyway...enough of my lame sarcasm. Thank Ed for video. Hopefully the charges against Long will be dropped and this cop will lose his badge permanently. That's some pretty damn violent behavior to body check some guy zooming past you on a bike for no good reason.

What I want to know is, who is that skeleton buried in the pavement? You can see it at 0:26 and again at the end of the slo-mo replay.

 

[Aepervius]

I have no problem with bikes and bikers, but courtesy includes slower moving vehicles keeping out of the way of faster moving vehicles. It promotes safety in more ways than the biking public may think.

Beside the argument of blocking the street , which if not registered with authority is very stupid, I take affront of what you said. I bike everyday to work. I respsect the law of right of way, I respect the law of red/green lamp , I respect stops, I cling to the right side of the street.

COURTESY is that *QUICKER* vehicule which can look in their BACK MIRROR , don't take over me, to JUST turn right before me cutting my way, courtesy is to respect STOP, RED LAMP, and my right of way coming from the right. COURTESY is that the quicker vehicule undertsand that I have NO BACK MIRROR and CANNOT look ahead *AND* look behind me at the same time, which is why in driving law, the quick ton heavy vehicule are supposed to slow down and let me turn left/right if I signal for at least 50 meter.

Care to think how often those courtesy are broken ? At least once Every Single f-Day. Sure by different vehicules, and broken different ways. But there is a HUGE amount of car driver which think the road belong to them and cyclist should go away from THEIR road.

Before you say me you are not one of those, *NONE* of the driver I spoke to admitted to do such stuff once. NONE. I must be really unlucky statistically.

 

[GlennB]

I have no problem with bikes and bikers, but courtesy includes slower moving vehicles keeping out of the way of faster moving vehicles.

In the absence of dedicated bike lanes, how?

Especially given that cyclists sometimes need to make a left turn (for those of us driving on the right) and must necessarily cross to the left lane of multi-lane traffic.

Afaics your theory would mostly relegate cyclists to the pavement (sidewalk), in which case pedestrians then become the 'slow moving vehicles' and have to defer to cyclists. Eventually little hunched-over old ladies are unable to make any progress at all, and die of hunger and thirst in shop doorways.

 

[groupthinker]

In the absence of dedicated bike lanes, how?

Especially given that cyclists sometimes need to make a left turn (for those of us driving on the right) and must necessarily cross to the left lane of multi-lane traffic.

Afaics your theory would mostly relegate cyclists to the pavement (sidewalk), in which case pedestrians then become the 'slow moving vehicles' and have to defer to cyclists. Eventually little hunched-over old ladies are unable to make any progress at all, and die of hunger and thirst in shop doorways.

Well it should be illegal for bikers to use streets without bike lanes. I believe in some American states it is.

 

[geni]

Well it should be illegal for bikers to use streets without bike lanes.

Bikes were there first. You can get off the road.

 

[GlennB]

Well it should be illegal for bikers to use streets without bike lanes. I believe in some American states it is.

Are you kidding me? Where do the cyclists go?

 

[groupthinker]

Are you kidding me? Where do the cyclists go?

They will have to go to streets where there are bike lanes. Roads were created for CARS not toys.

 

[groupthinker]

http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/06/29/2302719/bartonville-to-bicyclists-pedal.html

haha

This law should be passed everywhere to stop Critical Mass nonsense.

 

[zooterkin]

. Roads were created for CARS not toys.

Roads were improved to make it easier for cycles, I think you'll find; cars happened to be invented at the right time to take advantage of the improved roads.

 

[ThunderChunky]

n/m i just realized this was 2 years old...

 

[davefoc]

http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/06/29/2302719/bartonville-to-bicyclists-pedal.html

haha

This law should be passed everywhere to stop Critical Mass nonsense.

I was a little surprised that you would favor the creation of a law. Isn't that a little wimpy by your standards? You seem to think that when people do stuff that you don't like the police should just assault them and then frame them.

Why bother with laws? That sounds like it might get in the way of your little police state utopia. Instant groupthinker justice. No muss, no fuss. Have you figured out how long Christopher Long should have stayed in prison for being assaulted by Pogan and not resisting arrest?

 

[lomiller]

This law should be passed everywhere to stop Critical Mass nonsense.

If you are going to take away peoples freedoms and build a police state why not just ban cars instead? it actually makes a lot more sense as cities built around the car face a pretty grim future as energy prices skyrocket over the coming decades.

 

[ponderingturtle]

You talk about declaring an annoying protest group a terrorist organisation, and argue that it's okay for a police officer to assault one of its members at random, and you accuse me of over-reaction?

Hey this could get rid of the Teaparty, so lets here this out.

 

[ponderingturtle]

They will have to go to streets where there are bike lanes. Roads were created for CARS not toys.

Well no, they were built for horses were I frequent. You have to have a pretty new city to have one built for cars.

 

[Modified]

Well it should be illegal for bikers to use streets without bike lanes. I believe in some American states it is.

There are sometimes laws that bike lanes, if present, must be used by bicyclists, but I don't think it goes beyond that.

 

[GlennB]

Roads were created for CARS not toys.

Right. The remains of all those ancient Roman cars just haven't been discovered yet.

 

[Jeff Corey]

... To quote a wonderful source (if you know him/it HONK!!) "The roads must roll!"

That dirty hippy. TANSTAAFL.

 

[lomiller]

There are sometimes laws that bike lanes, if present, must be used by bicyclists, but I don't think it goes beyond that.

Even then, there will be allowances for left hand turns

 

[Ferguson]

Fascist pigs vs. CM douchenozzles. There is no right side to this argument. Just two wrong sides.

Cops assaults a CMer without provocation because he's a filthy commie. CMers assault motorists without provocation because they're ebil fuel-burning nazis.

The cop escaped prosecution for his assault, but CMer's will scratch or smash cars, slash tires, block traffic and intersections for extended periods of time, and engage in other acts of terrorism, and escape prosecution through sheer mobility and numbers. That people may have places to be does not concern them since a CMer's conception of a "job" consists entirely of that one summer they stocked shelves at the Organic Food store because the owner had some really dank hydroponic.

No good side, just two bad sides.

 

[Aepervius]

That *some individuum from CM are idiot do not make the whole group "car smasher". And certainly in no way warrant or excuse assault by a policeman. IMHO the crime of the policeman is WORST. The CM idiot are jsut vandal. But policemen are supposed to UPHOLD the law, enforce it, and are given some levy and weapons due to that. Which means they are held to a higher standard because of the levy over normal citizen they get out of it.

But as soon as you give only a slap to a policeman for an assault or any crime, then there is no incetive for him or those belonging to his group to respect standard. You invite corruption IMHO that way.