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Mountain View man arrested for hitting SF officer with car

Original post made on Oct 6, 2015

A San Francisco police officer is recovering at home after a 25-year-old Mountain View man allegedly struck him with a vehicle and attempted to flee from the officer early Monday morning in San Francisco's Bernal Heights neighborhood, a police spokeswoman said.

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Posted by Interesting
a resident of Bailey Park
on Oct 6, 2015 at 12:56 pm

It's fascinating to me how quickly attempted murder charges get filed when a cop is on the business end of an driver attempting assault in a car, but never when it's a common person on a bike being assaulted, which happens far too much.

Also, cops are allowed to use deadly force when dealing with an assaulting driver. I would imagine if I decided to disable a driver attempting to assault me by dragging him out of his car and pinning him to the ground might even get me in trouble.

Get well soon officer, you guys are on the front lines. Much respect!

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Posted by @interesting
a resident of Waverly Park
on Oct 6, 2015 at 2:27 pm

So tell use how are you assaulted by cars on your bike? Has a car ever touched you? How many times has it happened? Could of you been at fault?

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Posted by Interesting
a resident of Bailey Park
on Oct 6, 2015 at 2:49 pm

Well, aside from the fact that you TOTALLY side skirted the issue in the hopes of playing "Blame the cyclist", here's all the answers to your questions. Hopefully you'll answer mine:

So tell use how are you assaulted by cars on your bike?
I had a car try to side swipe me into a parked truck, slow down then come at me again where I had to ditch the bike over the curb and onto a lwn to avoid him. I had no interaction with him whatsoever prior to this.

Has a car ever touched you?
Yes
How many times has it happened?
To me personally, 2 times that I call blatant. I can count 5 others from 1st hand accounts of friends. Maybe more if I think about it.

Could of you been at fault?
No these were psychos acting completely unprovoked. Though I can't think of anything anyone would do aside from pulling a gun on the driver and firing that would justify him trying to run me down...twice, can you?

Now it's your turn to answer:
Would you ever act this way and literally chase someone to try to run them down twice? How would someone provoke you to act this way? Personally, nothing would ever have me act that way in my car. Nothing ever.