[*BCM*] Cop attacks Boston Critical Mass cyclist in Central Square: Follow up...

PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY Hey everybody. So we're sitting here, still blown away by what we saw. A bicyclist by the name of Yoni Kurland was assaulted by a Cambridge police officer, Raymond Pina, Badge CPD 567, in almost the exact same manner as the infamous NYC Critical Mass incident. Unfortunately, we do not currently know of anyone who caught it on film, so please spread the word and hopefully we can find someone who managed to record it. We have film of the aftermath, we have about seven eye witnesses, and hopefully we can take advantage of any nearby surveillance cameras (one of which we saw looked to be aimed directly down at the intersection near the incident). We plan to call the ACLU for legal advice as well. For those of you who were not there to witness it, Pina was in the middle of the road, trying to knock over passing cyclists who were all doing their best to avoid him. After a few failed attempts, Pina lunged towards Yoni, grabbed him, and threw him to the ground. Yoni was in the bike lane, had not personally been in the way of any traffic, and had not even reached the intersection and could not have run the red light. The ticket was filed for either "Bicycle operating to endanger" or "Bicycle leaving the scene of an accident" but there were no nearby pedestrians, and Yoni along with all other bicyclists did their best to avoid contact with the officer. There was a clear effort to attack one of the passing cyclists. Please stand by while we wait for the court date, and please ask around for anyone who might possibly have the incident on video. It is also up to Yuri to decide where he wants to take this. We will send another update when what video we have goes online. Solidarity forever, Dave - dave.earthmusic at gmail.com Danny - human at thesilentnumber.me -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.bostoncoop.net/pipermail/bostoncriticalmass/attachments/20100827/76292523/attachment.htm