![]() One reply from EricEatsPickles said it "sounds like a totally disproportionate response. ![]() > Police in Hackney catch 18 red light jumping cyclists in 90 minutes well, the sheer extent of similar (and more dangerous) road offences you'll see if you go for even just a 10-minute spin around town. Rather predictably the comments are split between people with flags in their Twitter bio commending the officers on their work, and cyclists asking if the response was proportionate to the crime given. The post has sparked a few questions, namely how proportionate the response was? How do you safely rugby tackle a cyclist? Would the police accept risking serious injury to another road user to stop them after running a red light? Unfortunately we don't have any footage so much of our impression of the incident is shaped by the police's tone of the portrayal. ![]() I did have to double check we hadn't fallen for one of those parody police accounts, the most famous of which is named after Hot Fuzz's Sandford 'crime-fighting' station, but nope, it's the real deal. After 3 failed Police stops, we introduced him to Rugby as a new sport.Ĭharged: Dangerous Cycling, Fail to stop. Refusing to stop he believed we had no powers if he had no helmet on. ![]() Let's start Friday with this tweet from Greater Manchester Police shall saw a cyclist riding past red lights in the city. ![]()
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