NYPD Seeks Injunction to Stop Critical Mass



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Jym Dyer

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=v= Today the New York City police filed a request for an
injunction to stop this Friday's Critical Mass ride. Documents
uploaded to the "Files" section of the CM Yahoo! Group:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/critical-mass/

(you must subscribe to the group to read them) and to the
the NYC Indymedia site (no subscription necessary):

http://nyc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/128198/

=v= This was in part a response to a previous request for an
injunction to stop the police from cutting locks and seizing
bikes, which they have done during the last two Critical Mass
rides in New York City.

=v= My personal take on this is that the requests are full of
lies. The August Critical Mass was huge because it was a few
days before the Republican National Convention. They NYPD made
indiscriminate mass arrests and are now attacking the ride to
make it seem as if they had a nonpolitical reason to.

=v= The ride sizes in the timeline they depict is inaccurate, as
are the claims about impact on traffic and emergency vehicles.
<_Jym_>