Originally Posted by
bakes1
Fair enough point.
You believe he knew the law and was just looking to bust balls.
Not sure if I 100% agree with that but he definitely appears to be a fool so who knows.
Either way that doesn't change how I feel about it. This really does not appear to be a cycling issue at all even though the A&S crowd is trying to use it as a rallying cry.
The issue is simply poor police work and a fairly corrupt system. This should not be a newsflash to anyone and is no way specific to cycling.
OK so the LEO doesn't know the law... but should have at least a clue as to the legal rights of road users... but what really compounds this is that prosecuting attorney also goes along with the cop AND threatens the other cyclists... somewhere along the way, some of these legal eagles should have at least glanced at the code cited... and FURTHER, the judge goes along with it...
So this is NOT just about a single LEO being clueless, but at least in this case a whole chain of people, who work to intimidate the other witnesses/cyclists. And this is NOT the only such case.
And again, these guys are supposed to be at least somewhat familiar with the laws they are enforcing... The average motorist has no such obligation...