So, stereotype pickup driver coming up to signalled intersection on green. Line of cyclists (50 in group?) continues to pass thro on red.
S.P.D. thinks, "Wahey! Hunting season!". Even in a country where some idiot woman can successfully sue MacD's for scalding coffee in her lap, your clubmates wouldn't stand a chance of winning a civil suit against him.
Your clubmates' reasoning is just the same as a driver blowing thro' on red because, " What the heck, I can get through ok". The utterly self-centred reasoning is based on the same desire not to stop or slow down. The lead riders who go thro' on green should wait for those who muststop on red. A bunch of 50 riders is nota "big truck".
The argument is stupid, the action illegal and the potential consequence fatal
Please, don't be such bloody idiots