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In reply to the discussion: Update on the bikers who terrorized a New York City Family. [View all]TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)In one of the links someone gave here is an interview with the guy that was filming with the helmet camera and he says that the guy that brake checked the SUV did it deliberately... he was even the one to call it a "brake check". Of course, he insists that he only did it to get the SUV to move over so they could pass which is rubbish because the SUV was surrounded by bikes and the SUV driver was trying to get away from them. IIRC, he also claimed that it was the SUV that sped up to hit the guy's rear tire which is also bullshit as can be seen in the video.
The only thing in your post I don't understand is why you think that when the SUV pulled over after bumping that rear tire of the guy who brake checked him that when it was stopped and surrounded by bikers that they were beating on his SUV and slashing his tires because that can't be seen in the video... in the video at that point you can't see the SUV at all until it springs forward running over bikers. They couldn't have slashed his tires at that point since he drove away at high speed and his tires were fine. If the SUV driver said they were pounding on his car and issuing threats I would tend to believe him seeing how there are plenty of other videos that show these thugs doing the same thing to other drivers... cutting them off, pounding on their cars, shoving them off the road, etc.
It isn't necessary to claim that at that point they were pounding on his car, slashing his tires and issuing threats since just the brake check that was obviously deliberate and then being forcibly stopped in the road and surrounded by dozens of bikers is plenty intimidating enough to cause the SUV driver to feel so threatened that he escaped in the way he did. That's why the police haven't arrested him for running them over... they say the video shows that he had a legitimate fear to do so.