Originally Posted by
brotherj
. . . This sounds like Nazi Germany reincarnate! I am totally outraged!
I don't remember the Gestapo giving people they arrested fair trials before fair juries. They would have figured out which cyclists were Jews, murdered them, and then murdered their families. The non-Jewish resisters might have "only" faced a slow death in a concentration camp.
The cops here were thugs, but they were not Nazis. Don't demean the evil that was the Holocaust by comparing it to such relatively petty abuses.