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April 25, 2009
Hummer meets bikes. Hello, LAPD?
We bicyclists usually think we've got the LAPD on our side when it comes to angry drivers who don't feel like sharing the road. Often we're right. Sometimes we're wrong.
Cross-posted from Homegrown Evolution:
In the early morning hours on Friday in downtown Los Angeles a group of around a dozen cyclists were involved in a hit and run incident with a Hummer driver that resulted in minor injuries and three demolished bikes.The driver was pulled over several blocks away by the LAPD only to be let go. Officer Cho came back to speak to the group of cyclists stating, "Get everyone together because I don’t want to say this twice. If anyone says anything I’m gonna walk away and I’m not going to talk to you guys. Based on the evidence right now it looks like the cyclist hit the car, not that the car hit the cyclist." He added, “if it had been me with my family in that car, I’d have done the same thing, and I carry a gun in my car.”
Read the rest of the ugly details on Westside BikeSIDE!
