{"article":{"id":1467,"heading":"Critical Mass Bicyclists Setup and Arrested","author":"A Pennsylvania Farmer","created":"2000-08-17 01:34:53","modified":"2013-11-10 23:35:41","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 06:35:41","article":"

Critical Mass Bicyclists Setup and Arrested

Tuesday, 15 August 2000






























<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Tuesday, 15 August 2000 - Los Angeles \u2013 At 6:20 P.M., PST, Police entrapped and arrested about 40 Critical Mass bicyclists near the convention center. Critical Mass is an event repeated across the world in which bikers get together and bike around a city in support of bike friendly policies.","numcomment":4,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2000\/08\/critical_m.txt","filesize":"5.1 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2000\/08\/1467.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":1473,"heading":"tremendous reporting...","article":"\r\ntremendous reporting.<\/p>\r\n\r\nsounds like the cops in l.a. are willfully violating the constitution, just like the cops in philadelphia.<\/p>\r\n\r\nwhat a sad day for amerika.<\/p>","author":"Law-Abiding Cop","parent_id":1467,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-08-17 01:42:06","modified":"2000-08-17 01:55:09","fileurl":""},{"id":1644,"heading":"Concerned","article":"This is the second critical mass ride in recent weeks where there's been trouble. I still maintain that these rides are aggravating motorists more than they are achieving a more bicycle friendly atmosphere\r\n\r\nJim Davis\r\nQMS-DC\r\n\r\n","author":"Jim Davis","parent_id":1467,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-08-17 13:25:40","modified":"2000-08-19 21:22:29","fileurl":""},{"id":2038,"heading":"no motorists","article":"There were virtually no motorists in this area of South-Central Los Angeles where these people were arrested. ","author":"anonymous","parent_id":1467,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-08-18 03:38:18","modified":"2000-08-18 03:55:54","fileurl":""},{"id":2052,"heading":"The aggravation is due to motorists not bikes","article":"Jim Davis' comments are nearly as frightening as the tactics\r\nused by the LAPD and certainly as frightening as the agresso-repressed, smog-emitting, fat, yuppie, SUV drivers that law-abiding bicyclists have to put up with every day of\r\nthe year. If the simple fact that bicyclists are coming together and asserting their rights as a group bothers Jim Davis, what would he say about the aggravating atmosphere created by motorists who come together every day in groups a thousand times larger? It's cars that think they have a \r\nprimary right to the road and a right to pollute the environment that are the problem, not critical mass.","author":"Landis Duffett","parent_id":1467,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-08-18 04:05:56","modified":"2000-08-18 04:18:41","fileurl":""}]}