He instructs the driver to pull ahead and stop on the side of the road. (He is still letting him drive the car he just twice physically threatened to run over pedestrians with.)
If he just threatened someone with a club, would he ask him to take the club and go sit near by?
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There was some unusual policing at the Anti-Fracking Critical Mass Bike Ride and Chevron Blockade.
The officer playing "Good Cop" immediately started threatening cyclists, including myself, with supposed charges while claiming that he was the good cop, fighting off his supervisor's desire to arrest us all. Some of the activists bought this.
My mention that I am disabled, and that I was riding my prescribed mobility aid didn't deter his zeal. The cop expected me to park my bike and walk around while taking pictures. He ignored my questioning of his awareness of what mobility aides and disabilities are. He wanted me to walk, in pain, against doctors orders; zero empathy.
While on our route I notified the officer of dangerous driving by cars, including two vehicles that both failed to stop at an unmarked "T" intersection, and both raced by uncomfortably close to the cyclist's riding in a group on the narrow side-street.
The first driver was clearly talking on his cell phone, and the second driver yelled obscenities at the cyclists as he raced by on the very narrow residential street.
When informed of this, the "Good Cop" blamed the cyclists for not sticking to one lane on this narrow ONE LANE RESIDENTIAL STREET.
When I mentioned that the car actions are deadly and dangerous, he became VERY ANGRY, and again blamed the cyclists for not staying in one lane on the narrow ONE LANE RESIDENTIAL STREET.
In his rage, the officer, driving on the wrong side of the road, clearly driving fast (IN A SCHOOL ZONE), raced up to the group of critical mass protesters. He parked in the middle of the street blocking traffic in both directions, to lecture the cyclists about riding safe and to stay in one lane, like they had been.
The "Good Cop" reminded us again that he is the good cop and he is fighting off his "Bad Cop" supervisor who wants to arrest us all.
At the next Chevron, an angry motorist in a street racing car twice threatened the protester pedestrians on the sidewalk.
The car was impatient with the blockade and devised a solution to access the closed gas station. He thought it best to threaten the protesters with a deadly weapon, his car.
He gunned it, popped the clutch and lurched forward attempting to frighten and intimidate the protesters. He stopped just short but had failed to check if there was an innocent cyclist riding by in the bike lane. He just missed him, but not due to skill; it was luck.
That wasn't enough for him so he did it again; revving his engine and lurching forward, this time even closer to the wall of protesters.
What if his foot slipped off the clutch pedal? What if he raged out and went postal? What if...?
That car sounded pretty powerful. How many people could he have taken out?
Shouts alerted the clueless and unaware Saanich Police officers, who were clearly more focused upon cyclist violations than deadly threats with a motor vehicle, and the loud revving of his street racer's likely illegal exhaust system.
It looks like protesting is unwelcome in Saanich, but threatening people with a weapon, driving with illegally modified license plates, and loud exhaust systems only warrant a ticket.
While being spoken to by the police, the passenger fingered the protesters and media who were documenting the driver's threatening behavior, but he drove away with only a ticket in hand.
What other types of deadly weapons can you threaten people with in Saanich and still leave the scene in possession of the weapon, your bad attitude, and only a ticket to show for your troubles?
Video of the Chevron Bike Blockade on unceded Coast Salish territories;
Saanich gas customers snarled by Chevron pipeline protests.
"a man tried to break the blockade at the Gordon Head and McKenzie station."
He instructs the driver to pull ahead and stop on the side of the road. (He is still letting him drive the car he just twice physically threatened to run over pedestrians with.)
If he just threatened someone with a club, would he ask him to take the club and go sit near by?
_______________ __________________ _______________
There was some unusual policing at the Anti-Fracking Critical Mass Bike Ride and Chevron Blockade.
The officer playing "Good Cop" immediately started threatening cyclists, including myself, with supposed charges while claiming that he was the good cop, fighting off his supervisor's desire to arrest us all. Some of the activists bought this.
My mention that I am disabled, and that I was riding my prescribed mobility aid didn't deter his zeal. The cop expected me to park my bike and walk around while taking pictures. He ignored my questioning of his awareness of what mobility aides and disabilities are. He wanted me to walk, in pain, against doctors orders; zero empathy.
While on our route I notified the officer of dangerous driving by cars, including two vehicles that both failed to stop at an unmarked "T" intersection, and both raced by uncomfortably close to the cyclist's riding in a group on the narrow side-street.
The first driver was clearly talking on his cell phone, and the second driver yelled obscenities at the cyclists as he raced by on the very narrow residential street.
When informed of this, the "Good Cop" blamed the cyclists for not sticking to one lane on this narrow ONE LANE RESIDENTIAL STREET.
When I mentioned that the car actions are deadly and dangerous, he became VERY ANGRY, and again blamed the cyclists for not staying in one lane on the narrow ONE LANE RESIDENTIAL STREET.
In his rage, the officer, driving on the wrong side of the road, clearly driving fast (IN A SCHOOL ZONE), raced up to the group of critical mass protesters. He parked in the middle of the street blocking traffic in both directions, to lecture the cyclists about riding safe and to stay in one lane, like they had been.
The "Good Cop" reminded us again that he is the good cop and he is fighting off his "Bad Cop" supervisor who wants to arrest us all.
At the next Chevron, an angry motorist in a street racing car twice threatened the protester pedestrians on the sidewalk.
The car was impatient with the blockade and devised a solution to access the closed gas station. He thought it best to threaten the protesters with a deadly weapon, his car.
He gunned it, popped the clutch and lurched forward attempting to frighten and intimidate the protesters. He stopped just short but had failed to check if there was an innocent cyclist riding by in the bike lane. He just missed him, but not due to skill; it was luck.
That wasn't enough for him so he did it again; revving his engine and lurching forward, this time even closer to the wall of protesters.
What if his foot slipped off the clutch pedal? What if he raged out and went postal? What if...?
That car sounded pretty powerful. How many people could he have taken out?
Shouts alerted the clueless and unaware Saanich Police officers, who were clearly more focused upon cyclist violations than deadly threats with a motor vehicle, and the loud revving of his street racer's likely illegal exhaust system.
It looks like protesting is unwelcome in Saanich, but threatening people with a weapon, driving with illegally modified license plates, and loud exhaust systems only warrant a ticket.
While being spoken to by the police, the passenger fingered the protesters and media who were documenting the driver's threatening behavior, but he drove away with only a ticket in hand.
What other types of deadly weapons can you threaten people with in Saanich and still leave the scene in possession of the weapon, your bad attitude, and only a ticket to show for your troubles?
Video of the Chevron Bike Blockade on unceded Coast Salish territories;
Saanich gas customers snarled by Chevron pipeline protests.
"a man tried to break the blockade at the Gordon Head and McKenzie station."