Maryland police searching for cyclist caught on video accosting people posting signs calling for jus
Maryland police searching for cyclist caught on video accosting people posting signs calling for justice for George Floyd
Elinor Aspegren
USA TODAY
Published 2:35 a.m. ET Jun. 5, 2020
Police in Maryland are searching for a cyclist seen on video assaulting and cursing at activists who were posting flyers against police brutality along a Bethesda trail this week.
The man encountered the group of three people on Monday as they were hanging signs seeking justice for George Floyd, the black man who died while a white police officer in Minneapolis kept his knee to his neck for nearly nine minutes on Memorial Day.
The 34-second video, which has gained nationwide attention on Twitter, shows the cyclist approaching a child and appearing to forcefully rip flyers from her hands, amid shouts from an adult woman to stay away and from the man filming to not "touch her."
The group then tells him "to just walk away," but he instead runs after the man who is filming, hitting him with his bicycle, cursing and shouting at him to take down the flyers. The man filming falls over, dropping his camera.
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