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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]Blue_Tires
(57,596 posts)184. and the subsequent beating was just as disproportionate...
not to mention idiotic, since that's *ALL* most people are talking about or will ever remember about this incident...No way in hell can they get him charged for hit-and-run or win a claim for damages now...
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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