No death, but also a lot of chaos and damage without a single gun:
An unidentified 33-year-old man was attacked in front of his wife and child in New York City after his vehicle reportedly was pursued by a gang of motorcyclists in a high-speed chase.
A video apparently taken by one of the bikers shows the gang surrounding the man’s Range Rover SUV on Manhattan’s West Side Highway Monday afternoon, the New York Post reports.
New York Police said the altercation began when the man called 911 to report the bikers driving erratically on the highway, NBC New York reports.
In the video, at least one biker is seen slowing down and parking his bike in front of the man’s vehicle, causing him to stop. Another biker began walking threateningly toward the vehicle before the driver gunned it and smashed into several bikes and riders.
The group then pursued the driver at high speeds until he got caught in traffic. At that point, another biker tried to rip open the SUV’s door, but the driver sped off again.
The chase came to an end in the upper Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights when the driver was caught in traffic a second time.
One biker in the video is shown taking off his helmet and using it to smash the driver-side window of the SUV. Police sources told the New York Post that the man was slashed in front of his wife and child, who were inside the vehicle.
The man was brought to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital with two black eyes and had to get stitches on his face and chest.
There’s a helmet cam video up on youtube:
Whoever started it, nobody had a gun, and can you say it was a good scene? As Jay said:
The one clear lesson from this story, IMHO, is that in road rage incidents, there are no winners, just survivors…
True dat!
Let’s not leave out that it turns out one of the people who attacked his vehicle was an undercover police officer and reports say there were at least six police officers riding with that group.