NYC BIKE RIDERS MALAY

 

Should The Driver Of The Range Rover Be Charge Also With Miss Conduct? Should The Undercover Cops Along With Other High Ranking Professionals, Along For The Evening Ride–Should have Blown Their Cover To Help?  Some People Say Yes While Others Say No.

 

By: C. Harrison/ 10/17/2013

 

A group of 80 or so  bike-riders were out a few weeks ago for their annual evening ride into Manhattan; when  they encountered a Range Rover driving in the middle of them. Weather the driver of the SUV, was driving fast or erotically we will never know or maybe that theory will come or play out in the courts. Anyway, what happened next was the telling point because the bike-riders slowed down for whatever reason and one of their own Christopher Cruz, of Passaic NJ, slowed down significantly right in front of this SUV causing a fender  bender—-at this point we do not yet understand why, except to say ——he claimed in a televised interview that he was looking to pull over to the side. Here, one could argue that maybe looking behind him the sun could have blind his line of sight but this argument has not yet surface.

 

Subsequently,  after this fender bender and for some reason the driver of the SUV, Alexian Lien, who had his wife and 2-year old child in the SUV speedup; never bothered to stop, he kept going mowing-down and ran over three other bikers. Realizing  what had happened—partly because bikers in the back might have called ahead to the front bikers and explained that the SUV  had ran over and seriously injured some of their own, not knowing how badly their friends were hurt  or if their friends were dead and the fact that the SUV driver never stopped, some of the bikers chased him down and caught up to him. This resulted in the mayhem of the motorcycles bashing in Lien’s drivers side door of his SUV—pulling him out and beating him up.

 

Not making light of the facts, everyone knows that when you are driving on the freeways and you see  groups of motorcyclist and it’s a lot of them, say 20 or more—you try to drive away from them staying in your lane going the correct speed limit or drive behind them, so as not to cause an accident.  That is the unwritten rules of the road—-growing up on Long Island taught me. If the streets are crowded and there are  score of bikers such as in this case 80 to 100, you don’t get in the middle of them. The second thing is this, everybody knows also that these bikers are like family, you have a problem with one then you have a problem with all.  The fact is that Lien, left the scene of a crime; even if he was afraid he should have pulled over to the side and get help.

 

The encounter has now entered into the courts system, where not only Cruz, is in trouble but cops and undercover intelligent officers.  I feel that the arrest situation is out of control or blown out of proportion. My take is this —-if their were local cops on the scene who could or wanted to intervene should have done so. But, if their were undercover deep undercover intelligent division officers on the scene—–while they could have voice for others to help and actually called in for help—they did the right by staying out of it. They had their day off and out for the evening–along for the ride work was out.

 

Multiple and ample people were there on the scene already helping—-they (these intelligent officers) saw that the situation was in hand. On the other hand, if it was a situation where gunshots were fired all over the place and people were dropping and the situation was spiraling out of control, then these officers had an obligation to step in and defused the instigator, weather to help or otherwise—lives would have been at stake.  But, to blow ones cover when it was not called for,  is not a wise move— it just depends on the right circumstances of a situation.

 

Now, I am not trying to justify what happened but I believe that the driver of the SUV, should get some form of punishment or some kind of charge brought against him—-for reckless endangerment and leaving the scene of a crime, at least. Biker rider Edwin Mieses, 32 whom Lien hit, is still in critical/paralyze state from waist down—a  Crushed Spine—-in a hospital; what was his crime—-he was out that evening enjoying a trip into the City,  Mieses has a wife and two children. The bikers involve should be dealt with fairly.