During the critical mass bike ride on the night of July 25th in Times square, a rookie New York City Police officer named Patrick Pogan launched an innocent bike rider (Christopher Long) off of his bicycle and into the concrete sidewalk, then arrested the rider for “Attempted 3rd degree assault”. Luckily it was all caught on tape and the officer has been stripped of his badge pending the investigation of the incident.
The Smoking Gun has the “fantastical” police report that the officer fabricated of the events. I personally do not see what the NYC police has against the Critical Mass bike rides but this isnt the first time NYC police have assaulted the critical mass bike riders. Maybe it disrupts traffic? Hippies are easy to beat up? Not sure what the motivation is here…
