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NYPD Officer Stripped of Badge After YouTube Video Shows Cyclist
Shove

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

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NEW YORK —  A police officer shown on video body-checking a
bicyclist who was riding as part of a demonstration was stripped of his badge
and gun Monday.

The incident occurred Friday evening in Times Square at the Critical Mass
ride, a monthly protest of urban reliance on motor vehicles.

The video clip, posted anonymously on the Internet on Sunday, shows the
officer standing in the street as bikes whiz past. The officer moves toward the
cyclist, identified in a criminal complaint as Christopher Long, and violently
knocks him to the ground in front of crowds of people. Another officer comes
over, and the two officers wrestle with Long before handcuffing him.

Craig Radhuber said he was riding about 3 feet behind Long when he was
hit.

"It was unprovoked," Radhuber said. "It was like the cop was waiting for him
and then just checked him as he got closer. I couldn't believe it."

The officer in the video was placed on desk duty pending the outcome of a
police department investigation, chief police spokesman Paul Browne said.

The video, shot by a bystander, was posted on YouTube.

Long, of Hoboken, N.J., was arrested because he was obstructing traffic in
the heart of Times Square, the complaint said. He was charged with attempted
assault, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.

The complaint said Long, 29, deliberately steered his bicycle into the
officer, causing both of them to fall to the ground.

During his arrest, Long squirmed and kicked, saying to the officers, "You are
pawns in the game. I'm gonna have your job," the complaint said.

There were no other arrests in the ride.

Long's lawyer said he hopes the Manhattan district attorney's office will
drop the charges. The district attorney's office said it was investigating.

Meanwhile, Long's next court date was set for Sept. 5.

The Critical Mass bike rides started in San Francisco in 1992 and began in
New York two years later. The New York rides, on the last Friday of every month,
became large enough that police decided to crack down on them, leading to the
arrests of more than 260 cyclists during a ride days before the GOP convention
in August 2004 on charges of disorderly conduct and traffic offenses.

Dozens more cyclists have been arrested at subsequent rallies. In 2007, a
federal judge ruled that the city could continue to regulate the rides despite a
claim from riders arguing the rules infringe on their constitutional rights to
free speech and to travel.

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