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Furthermore, it is a red herring and splitting hairs. The exact wording used in his area is not important; the fact that his paceline plowed willfully through a red light and were stopped for doing so is.
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The situation I was in is EXACTLY like "driving while black." When police go after black people in a white neighborhood because of complaints by whites, they intentionally target people because of a certain characteristic, then harass them for a minor offense they would not normally enforce. . . .
In my case, the cops are doing exactly the samer thing, targetting a group because of a certain characteristic, bicyclists. . . .
In my case, the cops are doing exactly the samer thing, targetting a group because of a certain characteristic, bicyclists. . . .
You really need to get some perspective.
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In my case, the cops are doing exactly the samer thing, targetting a group because of a certain characteristic, bicyclists, because of complaints by another group, drivers, and then harassing them with petty violations so that they will no longer ride their bikes in the drivers neighborhood. The analogy is exact.
As I have explained in my previous posts, there has been an ongoing war, that I have been witness to far at least the past ten years, between the residents of Key Biscayne who do not want cyclists riding on the causeway, and cyclists. Becaue of the drivers political clout and the general bias against cyclists by law enforcement, law enforcement targets in an effort to keep them off the causeway, they are not doing it because of safety, but to harass.
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The judge dismissed all the tickets given by the cops to the cyclists. The attorney that was handling many of the tickets told me the judge immediately dismissed the cases at the pre-trial hearing, which is unheard of, and was actually indignant that the cops had even given the cyclists tickets.
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Did he say why?
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some of the most unintelligent statements I have ever seen on BF were made in this thread. Hopefully the poster(s) responsible can shut up and go read a book.
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Green means go, yellow means don't start (not "slow down"), and read means stop.
Just like crosswalk signals.
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