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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLooks like the bikers who beat the SUV driver blew off a police check point with impunity . . .
. . . the guy who appears in the video (video at link below) is a friend of a friend. It appears that the bikers simply blew right past a checkpoint on the Manhattan Bridge, while law-abiding drivers were stopped and required to reproduce license, registration and proof of insurance. One has to wonder if the fact that there were five off-duty cops among the bikers had something to do with this. I mean, it is pretty hard to believe that blowing past a police check point wouldn't have resulted in a police pursuit, unless there had been some kind of prior arrangement. The fraud of the security state is exposed again!
http://www.insideedition.com/videos/1830-motocyclist-captures-biker-mob-acting-reckless
newfie11
(8,159 posts)markpkessinger
(8,381 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)the policy was not to pursue in order to avoid having anyone, rider or bystander, injured or killed.
seveneyes
(4,631 posts)I can't get past the stench of a checkpoint on the Manhattan Bridge. Checkpoints in America on our roads is not something that should be taken for granted, good or normal.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)cpwm17
(3,829 posts)You'll probably get stopped multiple times at checkpoints. It's ridiculous.
One favorite road of mine in San Diego has been closed since it was too inconvenient to put up a checkpoint.
It wasn't like that when I lived there through the late 1980's.
cpwm17
(3,829 posts)They felt entitled to rule over the public and take over roads.
Here's one of the winners that probably went through that checkpoint. He's lying about the first motorcycle going down. It didn't happen:
WolverineDG
(22,298 posts)because that would be "dangerous."
Apparently, asshats driving every which way, blowing stop signs & lights, riding on the sidewalk, swarming cars being driven lawfully, & intentionally causing rear-end collisions isn't "dangerous."
It's only a matter of time before car drivers go vigilante.