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Re: Re: Cops harassing cyclists, peds at 14th and P, Farragut, Dupont

Here are the ways you can stop a resisting biker by force:

1: Pursue and tackle the rider by bike, or motorcycle(he can evade a car in traffic), risking serious injusry to both the target and yourself.

2: Ram the bike, risking a crash in traffic and possible fatal injury. If you chase a bike in a car and catch up, what do you do then-ram him? Try to cut him off? If you pull ahead and stop blocking the road he can pull a quick U-turn and you are left trying to turn around and get moving again. By the time you are moving, he is GONE.

3: Stick something in the spokes, causing a crash in traffic and possible injury or even death if the rider is thrown into traffic.

4: Fire on the cyclist with some sort of weapon. Even a Taser or pepper spray again risks a crash in traffic.

You cannot roadblock a bike unless you have official permisson and manpower to block all roads out of the area with orange construction netting!

In April 2002(IMF), an attempt by cops to mass arrest a Critical Mass ride, executed with bike cops deploying a "roadblock," caught only 37 riders out of an estimated 230 as people rode directly through the spaces in the police line. I was there and easily escaped even though I was specifically targeted by a top official in a red command car. After three failed attempts to go around the block and block me he threw in the towel.

As far as I am concerned, anyone who tries to stop me by force(ABDUCT) or ticket(ROB)me on the road is the enemy, just as he would be in Iraq for trying to do the same thing.
 
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