More Crap in the News…

Yet another story that leaves cyclists shaking their heads wondering what the hell is wrong with the police.

This story I first saw on UrbanVelo which directed readers to the full story by The Examiner. Basically it involves a Hummer running over a biker, the driver of the Hummer telling the bikers that he has a gun and will come back “60 crips deep” if they call the cops. The Hummer was shortly pulled over by the police but let go without any time of citation being issued, even after the group of bikers told the cops that he ran over them and threatened to shoot them.

If you still need more reason to shake your head, here is a quote from one of the witnesses (taken from WestsideBikeside:

XXXXX was hit while traveling in the farthest right lane of traffic from behind by a black hummer h3. The hummer then came to a stop at the red light of 7th and Los angeles( twenty or so feet from where XXXXX was hit). They then rolled all of the windows down and told us to get away because ”they had a gun\guns” . . .

. . . Following this a large(6′2”+) Black man dressed in jeans and a long white t-shirt stepped out of the passenger side and put his arms out saying ”back the fuck away I have a gun”. His party urged him back into the vehicle, and when YYYYY (of our group) said ”GET THE VIN NUMBER!” the driver of the black hummer h3 put it in drive, and drove over three more bicycles, almost taking riders with him . . .

. . . Sometime between when the police stopped him and they ran over the bikes, the black man in the white long t shirt got out of the car and started to walk back towards 7th and los angeles. I urged the police officer that this man was guilty of a crime and claimed to have had a gun, but the police officer told me ”Did you see a gun?” I told him that I believed the man and that I didnt need visual verification to be terrified. The officer then told me quote ”I have a lightsaber, do you believe me?” and walked away.

A fucking lightsaber? Should someone who was just run over by a car really be taunted by some cop for believing his potential murderer also had a gun? The worst part is that this is also the behavior I would expect from the Austin police. Whats the deal boys?