In the wake of the incident of
motorist violence at San
Francisco Critical Mass on
Friday, March 30, 2007, this
video is presented as a
counterpoint to the gross
misrepresentation in much of
the Bay Area media. The hype
began with a gossip column in
the SF Chronicle. The side of
the story which hasn't been
told: a mother in
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In the wake of the incident of
motorist violence at San
Francisco Critical Mass on
Friday, March 30, 2007, this
video is presented as a
counterpoint to the gross
misrepresentation in much of
the Bay Area media. The hype
began with a gossip column in
the SF Chronicle. The side of
the story which hasn't been
told: a mother in a minivan
reportedly endangered her
children and the demonstrators
by crashing through the
Critical Mass in San
Francisco. She struck one
cyclist, who repotedly flew
4-5 feet, and crushed the
cyclist's bicycle underwheel.
She then fled the scene (hit
and run). Cyclists chased and
detained the motorist. One
cyclist reportedly erred in
throwing a bicycle at the rear
of the van, which had tinted
windows. None of the children
inside, who were not visible,
were injured. There were no
further acts of agression in
response to the attack. The
police failed to arrest the
driver, wihch is all too
common in the everyday
mistreatments of bicyclists,
and particularly true at
Critical Mass. The attached
video shows a parallel event,
in which a mother terrifies
her child, jumps a curb to
attack, strikes a cyclist (a
cancer victim, incidentally,
and partially disabled), traps
his foot underwheel, then
pushes through and crushes the
bicycle. A police lieutenant
failed to respond immediately
after (audio problems need to
be corrected, but you can see
the cyclists are asking for
justice). The full video
shows that there was a police
helicopter and police
stationed at intersections
along the way. Their failure
to protect the cyclists speaks
to the endemic and
institutionalized
discrimination against
bicycling which is a
foundation for the need for
critical mass demonstrations.

Category Autos & Vehicles

Tags bikes, Media, police, mass, road, lies, cycling, bicycling, rage, censorship, Critical, demonstrations, misreporting