Topic: bikers beat up rover driver

[nccb]

Probably, but I am sure he was terrified at this point with a wife screaming at him and child crying.

[Bailgang]

I'd like to ask a question to anyone familiar with this strip of highway...

Would it have been better if the SUV driver, instead of speeding away after the initial run-over of the cycles, had just gone maybe 25 mph and stayed on the main strip of highway (all while calling the police, of course)?

My thinking is that he's not going to outrun the cycles, but all he needs to do is go fast enough so that they can't dismount.  And I'm guessing that if he'd stayed on the main highway he wouldn't have gotten blocked up in traffic.  If any of the thugs would have gotten in front of him to block him, well, you got to protect your family, and you would hope the thugs are not THAT stupid.  And of course, you'd be hoping the cops would show up pretty fast to put a stop to it.

Would this have worked?

With hind sight being 20/20 yeah it may have worked but rational thinking tends to go out the window when a crisis such as this happens. My youngest son frequents a CBR forum and I asked him what the opinion of those on that site was about it. He said at first the opinions swayed in favor to the sport bikers but once videos started coming up showing how it happened he said that's when opinion swayed to the SUV driver and his family.

I myself have no desire to hurt someone and it's sad that the one biker that got run over is seriously messed up possibly for life but I can assure you that if I were put in a similar situation and I thought that not only my life but the life of my family was in danger then you best be getting the hell out of my way or you might have my tire tracks going down your back too.

[dhall57]

Reginald Chance the biker who you see in the video running up to the RR and taking off his helmet to smash the door glass has been arrested and charged with gang assault. This guy is one fine outstanding and law abiding citizen. Has 21 prior arrest for gun possession and robbery. And the beginning of this year was facing 25 years in prison for more gun and drug charges but a stupid #$@% judge knock it down to misdemeanor pot charge and gave this guy 20 days community service. UNBELIEVEABLE!! Oh also when he was appearing in court yesterday he shot everybody the rod. And one last thing his driver license had been suspended for who knows how long.
Who would of ever thunk it right No one here on this forum I'm sure

[nccb]

Just heard on the news tonight that the guy filming with his head cam is receiving death threats

[demon78]

I say again I'd run over all and everyone I could, I'd be doing the gene pool a major service.
Bill the demon.

[mono]

I say again I'd run over all and everyone I could, I'd be doing the gene pool a major service.
Bill the demon.

+1 those guys were being @$$holes, acting like a fricking bully mob.  i would not have stopped my car either, except to back over that guy a couple times.   that's what he gets for playing chicken with an SUV.  i'm sure the guy driving was so freaked out/distracted by the mob of psycho bikers around him that he didn't even see the guy slowing down.  i doubt i would have.

crap like this gives us all a bad image, because people don't separate crotch-rocket-thug culture from anyone else on 2 wheels.

[Retro Rocket]

Just read an article that said that the undercover cop has been arrested and charged now, the lying bastard was part of the assault. Someone handed the Police new footage that shows the cop taking part in it.......

[demon78]

You know I think that I'm beginning to get pissed off about the term "bikers" it should be "thugs", (no I correct myself thugs were at least trades people) "#$%*s" perhaps now if the news organizations started calling them "#$%*s" at least that would put it in perspective for a while.
Bill the demon.

[70CB750]

You know I think that I'm beginning to get pissed off about the term "bikers" it should be "thugs", (no I correct myself thugs were at least trades people) "#$%*s" perhaps now if the news organizations started calling them "#$%*s" at least that would put it in perspective for a while.
Bill the demon.

+1

[Bailgang]

Just read an article that said that the undercover cop has been arrested and charged now, the lying bastard was part of the assault. Someone handed the Police new footage that shows the cop taking part in it.......

I guess the initial vid that went viral didn't show the undercover cop participating in the violence so he figured he could get away with it but another video taken by someone else with an I-phone or something has surfaced and it supposedly clearly shows him breaking windows on the SUV.

[faux fiddy]

Just read an article that said that the undercover cop has been arrested and charged now, the lying bastard was part of the assault. Someone handed the Police new footage that shows the cop taking part in it.......

I guess the initial vid that went viral didn't show the undercover cop participating in the violence so he figured he could get away with it but another video taken by someone else with an I-phone or something has surfaced and it supposedly clearly shows him breaking windows on the SUV.

Superbikes, the great social unity device, bringing assailant- felons  and cops together side by side  to bash heads of innocent citizens .

[Duke McDukiedook]

As if this story was not already in Capt. Insano territory before the announcement that an undercover detective was on the scene.
Now it is coming out he was one of the car beaters and who knows what else will come out in the wash. 

[Stev-o]

Heard 7 idiots have now been arrested.

[CycleRanger]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/09/nyregion/11-motorcyclists-are-indicted-in-assault-on-an-suv-driver.html?_r=0

[demon78]

I hope they throw the book at them.
Bill the demon.

[Stev-o]

So, whatever happened to them? Haven't heard anything about this lately. 

[nccb]

apparently their sentence was reduced, if they are convicted that is

http://nypost.com/2013/12/22/biker-gang-victim-speechless-over-attackers-reduced-charges/

[750cafe]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/09/nyregion/11-motorcyclists-are-indicted-in-assault-on-an-suv-driver.html?_r=0

From that article...
"All but one of the defendants were charged with gang assault."
Anyone want to wager that it was the cop?   

Eric