A recent social media post from e-bike owners in New York City shows us that sometimes police priorities are pretty far out of whack. During a time when many Americans are concerned that the police
Instead of being able to continue on to the park, she had to watch her father get lectured by police, and learned that cops aren’t always our friends. Worse, she probably overheard them threaten to destroy the bike she was riding on, which leaves a lot of room for misinterpretation and fear in a young mind.
What’s even worse is that what these officers are doing might not even be legal. According to a post onthe anti-e-bike policy these cops are enforcing isn’t in keeping with New York state law“The conflict, of course, is that state law that legalized e-bikes in 2020 does not consider pedal-assist electric bikes to be motor vehicles.
We’re already questioning what the point of police even is when we see such dereliction of duty, but we quickly find out that police have no qualms about doing things like enforcing illegal policies and going as far as to threaten a man and his child while doing so. I’m almost embarrassed to say that I used to be in law enforcement when I see things like this.
When we really, really need the police, they’re not there for us. But when nobody wants them, they’re ready to spring into action to do stupid and mildly evil things like this. Shame on NYPD.
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