Mom Violence at Critical Mass

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:

• critical
• mass
• road
• rage
• media
• lies
• misreporting
• censorship
• police
• cycling
• demonstrations
• bicycling
• bikes

[WheelsOfChange]

Due to the harassment of this site, comments are hereby discontinued for the near future. Sorry to those who had legitimate comments still to make. Attacking a first-amendment protected demonstration by barreling over a median strip, striking a disabled man, running over his foot, injuring his knee, plowing over a bicycle and careening through a crowd, is indefensible.

[WheelsOfChange]

All while terrorizing one's own daughter (similar to the recent and widely misreported incident in San Francisco where an anonymous van driver behind tinted windows did the same thing, but with more kids in the car).

[chanrobi]

Pfft. And when were VEHICLES supposed to move over for other ones just because they go slower? Maybe I should blast a horn in your face to get you to move over in downtown traffic too.

[commops]

last time i checked, vehicles have the right of way on streets. unless blocked off for special even (tour de france, etc) -- they had no right frocking w/ that driver. they deserve it. why he went over the divider is a whole other subject - who the frock knows. i give up!

[aussiekwv]

Aren't pushbike have legal road vehicle?

[aussiekwv]

Name calling is a sign of weakness snowdome.

[aussiekwv]

Aussie Spam what are you too hopeless to come up with better abuse snowdome?

[aussiekwv]

Oh dear abuse because you are too much of a coward to answer my question.

But hold I thought you leaving, so why are you still here?

[snowyridge]

AUSSIE SPAM

[snowyridge]

MORON