Cop Who Shoved Bicyclist Indicted Using YouTube Footage
The police officer who seemingly randomly picked a bicyclist out of a critical mass crowd to tackle has been indicted for falsifying records and could also soon be charged with misdemeanor assault. The YouTube video [below], which went viral soon after the incident, was instrumental in the indictment.
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The officer claimed that the bicyclist had shoved him before the officer tackled him back, but the video shows no such incident.
Critical Mass is held on the last Friday of every month in over 300 cities across the world. Bicyclists join together for a cross-city ride moving as one unit and often disobeying traffic laws. The movement is intended to allow bicyclists, who typically must watch out for cars on the road, to be the traffic themselves.
[Via: Gawker]Photo Credit: Doug Letterman on Flickr under Creative Commons license.
seriously? wtf? why do people even care? the cop got a weakened charge, and he’ll get a weakened judgement, and a weakened sentence, and he’ll be back bullying by next week. cops literally get away with murder, so why does anyone think that justice could possibly be done here?
What an idiot - in more ways than 1!
Great video. The officer in this video is scum. Seriously, cops should always be punished more severely than civilians for their crimes.
the irony is. for the last 4 years, there’ve been countless other situations where the cops are just as aggressive and it’s caught on tape and there was no outcry and the people doing these misdeeds in the name of protecting and serving, go unpunished. They just get promoted and work this shenanigans deeper into the system.
Don’t get me wrong, Please… Just looking for some peace and kindness when I ride my bike through Happytown.
i hope they lock that pig up for a while, so some brothers could give him lessons in love
cyclists shouldn’t have to deal with control freak cops. but hey there you go. power to the people!
why were they standing in the middle of the road?
to BE dicks?
@Hey
You’re retarded. Stab your throat with knives multiple times.
OR
Step in front of a bus.
OR
Put your car in reverse and put your head under a tire of your choosing.
As one who has been pushed off his bike and fractured bones. F the police.
they should put that cop on a bike and push him into a big pile of cheese-cake slices and then beat him with rods made of plutonium pop-tarts (strawberry frosted)