wasn't this a longish time ago
Oh that windshield would be toast. I carry a buck knife with a window punch on the end.
Ah yes, escalation is always better
IdK man, seems like his vehicular assault was the escalation.
Lol, assault. Tales a lot to scare you i see 👌
I had someone do this recently in Central London. I swerved on my bike but the truck behind stood their ground.
Had to turn it down because of the shitty music but the content itself was great.
Wild seeing police do anything constructive.
They're not US police. That's probably why the video didn't end in everyone getting shot.
UK police can be absolute shits too. Policing as a profession can attract people who absolutely should not have power over others, and the culture within the police can promote pretty fucked up attitudes in ppreviously decent people; it's qualitatively the same pernicious problems that we see in the US, albeit to a much milder degree.
General condemnation of the police aside, I'm glad to see how this particular incident was handled.
He smacked the cyclist with his car, twice, on purpose, while in a bike labe he drove into, also on purpose.
If this was Denmark he'd lose his car and the license to even own one.
He should lose his life. He threatened to kill him TWICE with his vehicle while he was in the wrong and actively breaking the law, he has no right to live. Hang him and throw him in a trash heap
Kinda hilarious someone blurred out his license plate but the cyclist reads it out and that was left in.
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