February 15th was a Wednesday
Greg Leuch: iaminlikewithmybike: A jury in a civil trial just found a driver...
Speaking as somebody who was actually run over by a traffic cop on my commute, I can attest to the general antipathy that the NYPD has for cyclists and their limbs. I was raised to trust in the blanket trustworthiness of cops’ defense of rights and laws, but the NYPD, of late, has begun to betray that trust in incremental and worrisome ways.
A jury in a civil trial just found a driver mostly responsible for the negligent death of a cyclist in 2008. While this sort of thing is sadly common, the alarming part is not only that the NYPD officers responding to the incident originally found no reason to charge…
