Why They Take a Knee - 4/20 Edition

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SIX Police cars to handle some teens on bikes...THIS is why they take a knee.


‘Riding bikes while Black’: Cops under fire after swarming teens over lack of bicycle 'license tags'


Police officers in Perth Amboy, New Jersey are under fire after video clips of them appearing to harass a small group of Black teens who were riding their bikes through town went viral. Perth Amboy has a law requiring a bicycle "license tag" but the teens say they live in Edison, and were just riding home.

At one point six police cars were involved. The officers ordered the teens off the bikes, confiscated at least one, and arrested one teen who was arguing they shouldn't have to give up their bikes.

Later, at the police station, one officer told the teen he was lucky to get his bike back, asking if he had the purchase receipt for the bike, and if it is registered with them. The officer also says the teens were told "to stay on the sidewalk," but they were also told to stay on the road and ride with traffic. She says they did all this for their safety.

Part of Perth Amboy's extensive bicycle law reads:

"An application for a license to own and operate a bicycle shall be made to the Chief of Police in writing upon a form approved by the City Council. Upon approval of an application, the Chief of Police shall provide, at the expense of the city, a proper license tag which shall be attached to the frame of the bicycle in a substantial manner. The removal of such tag, except by proper authority, shall be a violation of this chapter. A license fee of fifty cents ($0.50) shall be charged per year for each bicycle. Such license shall be issued as of the calendar year and shall be effective for such period."

It also bans "fancy riding":

"The rider of a bicycle shall not allow it to proceed in a street by inertia momentum, with his feet removed from the pedals, nor remove both hands from the handlebars while riding the bicycle, nor practice any trick or fancy riding in a street or carry another person upon the bicycle."

https://www.rawstory.com/riding-bike...-license-tags/

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Now...stand by for the usual litany of excuses from JPP's badge blowers...

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Another BLUE city

[Underdog]

So you speak to nothing you know about.

#bikelife which I am a big part of, involves people kids and adults alike riding in mega packs often with youth's doing wheelies (some even without front wheels) swerving cars and being hooligans.

it's called a "ride out", and while most of them are harmless, sometimes they get way out of hand.


it's all about the big bimx life.


This is typical

[SmarterthanYou]

"An application for a license to own and operate a bicycle"

That little snippet above should tell you all you need to know about new jersey and it's communistic state............they deserve (all colors) what they voted for

[blackascoal]

Bike riding while black, walking while black, breathing while black .. all reasons to stop you for an opportunity to kill you.

[blackascoal]

That little snippet above should tell you all you need to know about new jersey and it's communistic state............they deserve (all colors) what they voted for

Yet, Camden is there, possibly the most progressive city in America on policing, and a model for police reforms.

[Bigdog]

appearing to harass a small group of Black teens who were riding their bikes through town went viral.

So this is why multi millionaire ballers hate the United States.

Thanks for clearing that up.

[ThatOwlWoman]

SIX Police cars to handle some teens on bikes...THIS is why they take a knee.


‘Riding bikes while Black’: Cops under fire after swarming teens over lack of bicycle 'license tags'


Police officers in Perth Amboy, New Jersey are under fire after video clips of them appearing to harass a small group of Black teens who were riding their bikes through town went viral. Perth Amboy has a law requiring a bicycle "license tag" but the teens say they live in Edison, and were just riding home.

At one point six police cars were involved. The officers ordered the teens off the bikes, confiscated at least one, and arrested one teen who was arguing they shouldn't have to give up their bikes.

Later, at the police station, one officer told the teen he was lucky to get his bike back, asking if he had the purchase receipt for the bike, and if it is registered with them. The officer also says the teens were told "to stay on the sidewalk," but they were also told to stay on the road and ride with traffic. She says they did all this for their safety.

Part of Perth Amboy's extensive bicycle law reads:

"An application for a license to own and operate a bicycle shall be made to the Chief of Police in writing upon a form approved by the City Council. Upon approval of an application, the Chief of Police shall provide, at the expense of the city, a proper license tag which shall be attached to the frame of the bicycle in a substantial manner. The removal of such tag, except by proper authority, shall be a violation of this chapter. A license fee of fifty cents ($0.50) shall be charged per year for each bicycle. Such license shall be issued as of the calendar year and shall be effective for such period."

It also bans "fancy riding":

"The rider of a bicycle shall not allow it to proceed in a street by inertia momentum, with his feet removed from the pedals, nor remove both hands from the handlebars while riding the bicycle, nor practice any trick or fancy riding in a street or carry another person upon the bicycle."

https://www.rawstory.com/riding-bike...-license-tags/

That is fucking ridiculous. What's next -- permission to buy and a requirement for tags for stationary exercise bikes???

[Underdog]

most of these bike life rides are multi racial and just watch this summer you are going to see this become a huge news story.


They were riding on and off the sidewalk, in traffic, doing wheelies, swerving cars and on the wrong side of the rode IN A PACK.


That's #bikelife you can't run the streets like a hooligan and then cry when you get caught, that's part of the fun.

[ThatOwlWoman]

Bike riding while black, walking while black, breathing while black .. all reasons to stop you for an opportunity to kill you.

And don't forget, being shot to death by redneck vigilantes for jogging while black.

[Underdog]

but I will say the bike license is ridiculous, but you all act like they were riding single file on the side of the road legally, not wheels up swerving traffic.

[blackascoal]

So this is why multi millionaire ballers hate the United States.

Thanks for clearing that up.

They don’t hate the United States, they hate you.

[Underdog]

Bike riding while black, walking while black, breathing while black .. all reasons to stop you for an opportunity to kill you.

it was a mixed group or riders, and they were swerving oncoming traffic while doing wheelies.

[SmarterthanYou]

Yet, Camden is there, possibly the most progressive city in America on policing, and a model for police reforms.

has it changed yet? or are there lawsuits from police unions to stop it?