We’ve got very few words for this. We just hope the skaters involved are OK. From the text along with the video, it seems that they are.
Follow-up:
Skaters are Danny Carlson, Lee Cation, and Keenan Macartney. Aside from Keenan’s road rash, they are physically OK.
I think that a few things are clear from this video. The longboarders in this video are fucking morons. They saw the police vehicle 7 seconds and 110 meters away and couldn’t negotiate a safe stop. Is that the cops fault? No. It is 100% the fault of the person on the longboard who cannot stop for an emergency vehicle with lights flashing. What kind of fucking moron thinks it is ok to do this in a residential neighborhood with children in tow? If I was part of your community, I would be trying to distance myself from fucking idiots like Danny Carlson, Lee Cation, and Keenan Macartney as they will likely tarnish any and all legal riders as it seems they are speaking on behalf of you all when they say things like “avoid cops”.
If you support them, and their breaking of the law, then consider yourself a fucking moron.
We appreciate your passion on this subject, but we do not appreciate the name calling & half baked assumptions you mention above. We have been to this area ourselves and there are no babies in the street. In fact, there are cars, bikes, skaters, and trucks—maybe a deer and a beaver at times too. You could (and you’d look foolish if you did) make a similar accretion as the one above in regards to skaters that “what are cars, bikes, rollerblades, and whatever else doing driving on a road where children live?” Aint gonna fly my dude! FACT: the unmarked vehicle clearly pulled into oncoming traffic; regardless of what was in that lane it is a risky and dangerous move. A very dangerous choice for any children, other cars, bikes, horses, turtles, and whatever else might possible have been moving in that opposite direction. What if the cop did kill a skater or even a child crawling (as you mentioned might be a possibility. Stoops!) when the cop swerved into oncoming traffic? From the looks of it, the cop made a bad and emotionally charged decision and put his fellow man at risk for a $20 citation. Also, you are using double speak (look it up); the cop cars were unmarked, not clearly distinguishable “emergency vehicles”—Just a car. Also, we did not see any emergency lights from the the unmarked cars via the video until once the skaters were right up on them. That said, there may very well have been some small dashboard lights? Anyway, here’s what we support: awesome people out there trying to enjoy themselves in a safe and radical way—finding new and untraditional means to explore public space and also test what’s possible. What we do not support: Tyranny, hate, name calling, assumptions, power trips, and general douchebaggery.
it was an unmarked vehicle that purposely pulled up and put them in danger therefore they were surprised and couldn’t react on time. So sir Peter if you know nothing of longboarding in traffic areas don’t comment or longboarding in general. I have my sure of drivers purposely putting me in harms way downhills. so yea…
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