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In reply to the discussion: Caught on video: Father with family in SUV chased, beaten by speed-demon bikers [View all]cpwm17
(3,829 posts)144. You're clearly not objective
It very much appears the motorcycle caused the accident at the beginning of the video. The gang then surrounded and allegedly damage the SUV. The man had a right to flee for his own safety. There is so much the motorcycle riders did wrong in the video.
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Caught on video: Father with family in SUV chased, beaten by speed-demon bikers [View all]
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
Sep 2013
OP
You realize there's a subforum of motorcycle riders right here on DU right?
AtheistCrusader
Sep 2013
#14
Ditto, and i would never think of shooting b/w cars. There are several subsets of bike riders!
Dustlawyer
Sep 2013
#141
That was the 'broken leg'? man clipped by car.. charged with reckless endangerment and endangering..
Sunlei
Oct 2013
#202
motorcyclists are threatened every day due to inattentive or careless drivers..
frylock
Sep 2013
#58
Lien hit the gas and plowed through at least three motorcycles and struck one rider..
frylock
Sep 2013
#65
i'm probably taking this a little more personally than i should, but in the last 5 days..
frylock
Sep 2013
#119
I understand that that kind of behavior by other drivers is scarier when you're on a bike
dflprincess
Oct 2013
#266
I assume you have never gone riding with 30 or so friends on urban streets
truebluegreen
Oct 2013
#403
Ironically, the first thought at seeing a Range Rover drive away should have been
Blue_Tires
Sep 2013
#63
The disproportionate response was the bikers attacking his vehicle after the initial contact -
Bonx
Oct 2013
#193
And yet the photos in the article show something different than the quote.
AtheistCrusader
Oct 2013
#226
Yet there are multiple articles with different time specifications on when the tires were damaged.
AtheistCrusader
Oct 2013
#231
You certainly appear to be denying the SUV the same benefit of the doubt you are generously giving t
LanternWaste
Oct 2013
#254
I've simply read many more posts of yours allowing benefits of the doubt to the bikers...
LanternWaste
Oct 2013
#321
Why does everyone have so much trouble with the goddamn space-time continuum.
AtheistCrusader
Oct 2013
#270
You are not going to convince me that Mr. Lien was not in fear for his life and the lives of his
Jenoch
Oct 2013
#291
I like that you are so dismissive, when I point out real possibilities.
AtheistCrusader
Oct 2013
#352
Jolly good of them. Exemplary riders for not beating a two year old and a woman...
RedFury
Oct 2013
#388
Did you perhaps notice the gang of bikers STOPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD
Downtown Hound
Sep 2013
#73
did you perhaps not notice my post wondering what happened in the lead up to that?
frylock
Sep 2013
#77
Maybe they were waiting for the cops? You have NO IDEA what happened behind that wall of people.
AtheistCrusader
Sep 2013
#101
Your grasp of timelines is as feeble as your grasp of the law around hit and run.
AtheistCrusader
Sep 2013
#106
So, where's your justification for him running a man over, breaking his leg, and fleeing the scene
AtheistCrusader
Sep 2013
#108
Again, until he ran one of them over, there was no mob attack, per THIS video.
AtheistCrusader
Sep 2013
#116
Again, using events AFTER HE RAN A HUMAN BEING OVER to justify running a human being over.
AtheistCrusader
Sep 2013
#136
I never once said the driver was justified in fleeing. I said things to the opposite of that.
whopis01
Oct 2013
#201
I'm saying the man in the SUV is blameless. ALL of this was the fault of the bikers-nt
Bonx
Oct 2013
#174
As are the statements from multiple bikers that say no such thing happened before he
AtheistCrusader
Oct 2013
#233
Strawman. I did not say they are innocent, let alone using a colorful simile to a young sheep.
AtheistCrusader
Oct 2013
#331
But the group as a whole was engaging in aggressive behavior before causing the collision
cpwm17
Oct 2013
#305
I was ignoring the allegations concerning the riders' behavior after the crash in my last post
cpwm17
Oct 2013
#308
Nothing? Really? Seattle police arrested an asshole for doing this to bicyclists.
AtheistCrusader
Sep 2013
#118
When are leaders of the white community going to speak out against these gangs of white men?
Scuba
Sep 2013
#4
Yes, I watched all of it. I only saw whites, of course they all wore helmets. If you didn't see ...
Scuba
Sep 2013
#60
The NYPD and D.A. continue to thank idiots who put their crimes on social media...
Blue_Tires
Sep 2013
#11
But to be fair, it's not like the bikers were in ANYTHING resembling an organized formation...
Blue_Tires
Sep 2013
#49
Funny how none of those bikers reported the hit-and-run to the cops when they arrived
Blue_Tires
Sep 2013
#52
They stopped a car on the West Side Highway and surrounded his vehicle
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
Sep 2013
#68
Intentionally decelerating in front of someone's moving vehicle is a crime.
The Stranger
Oct 2013
#180
When you are on a bike, you drive in front of an SUV, and slow down, what does that say about
LisaL
Oct 2013
#288
Can you show me the law where it says you have a right to stop traffic en masse
Downtown Hound
Sep 2013
#87
I have gotten in a high speed pursuit with the police/911 dispatcher on the phone.
AtheistCrusader
Sep 2013
#100
You keep conflating what they did in response, to what happened before the car driver ran over that
AtheistCrusader
Sep 2013
#103
How about these bikers are assholes who wanted the road clear for their own ride
telclaven
Oct 2013
#312
The video doesn't show the whole event, but from what I saw, that's a hit and run.
AtheistCrusader
Sep 2013
#29
It's a hit and run unless the bikers were acting in a threatening manner
alcibiades_mystery
Sep 2013
#71
Looks like an elaborate, asshole-emboldening step to hamper identification
BeyondGeography
Sep 2013
#54
The problem is, no one knows if one of those cycle thugs had a gun either
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
Sep 2013
#42
That's kind of obvoius. The guy who slowed down in front of SUV was merely bumped.
LisaL
Oct 2013
#282
Interesting to see DUers jump to accusations based on their hatred of SUVs or motorcycles.
cui bono
Sep 2013
#75
if that was my family in the suv, these idiots would have met a lot more lethal force.
loli phabay
Oct 2013
#181
Except that in the CBS article with the photos of the vehicle post-window-smashing
AtheistCrusader
Oct 2013
#217
In Dallas, we had a large group of bikers stop a whole freeway while they did stunts.
dookers
Oct 2013
#158
Lets see another video shot by the guy involved in the attack on the SUV driver
AngryAmish
Oct 2013
#182
Do you think the idiots in this thread defending these scum bags will have the ..
Hassin Bin Sober
Oct 2013
#262
I'm curious about the difference between attempted vehicular homicide and self-defense.
JVS
Oct 2013
#209
You can see the tire at 3:04 in the video just after it had been ripped off the vehicle
cpwm17
Oct 2013
#339
You can't even accurately repeat back my position, how am I supposed to trust your inference of
AtheistCrusader
Oct 2013
#378
Well, I'm leaving those quotes up, because anyone who reads what you asserted about me
AtheistCrusader
Oct 2013
#381
All I can say, is that it's a good thing nobody got caught under Atheist Crusader's goalposts
cemaphonic
Oct 2013
#374
I look forward to the 911 calls and other evidence being released to the public nt
cpwm17
Oct 2013
#391
Humans in packs can be dangerous, the driver had every right to do what he did to flee.
penultimate
Oct 2013
#380
He was captured without provocation right in the middle of the freeway travel lanes
cpwm17
Oct 2013
#400