Highway take-over by bicyclists results in vandalism, prompts investigation in Mid-Metropolis

MID-CITY, LOS ANGELES (KABC) — The Los Angeles Police Division is investigating a vandalism case which may be associated to a daunting street rage incident involving a white Mercedes-Benz and dozens of bicyclists within the Mid Metropolis space on Saturday.

Movies posted on social media present the driving force of a white, C-class Mercedes sedan weaving out and in of a crowd of bicyclists who had stuffed three westbound lanes of Olympic Boulevard close to Highland Avenue.

That driver got here near putting the cyclists a number of occasions throughout the incident.

LAPD was known as however when officers arrived, the group of cyclists and the driving force of the automobile have been gone.

Later that afternoon, LAPD says it acquired a vandalism grievance involving that very same Mercedes close to Wilshire and La Brea. A video posted to X exhibits a gaggle of individuals leaping on and kicking the automobile because it sat parked.

LAPD is investigating that case, however stated no grievance has been filed.

Damian Kevitt, the Govt Director of Streets Are For Everybody (S.A.F.E.), known as the unique incident with the group of bicyclists “loopy.”

“As a driver you need to assume with the truth that if you happen to hit a bike owner, they will lose,” Kevitt instructed Eyewitness Information. “And perhaps technically it will not be your fault, however is that value it to know that you just simply critically injured or killed a bike owner since you have been annoyed?”

Kevitt additionally criticized the bike riders, saying that taking on a whole path of a street will not be solely unsafe and impolite, however unlawful.

“Cyclists have a proper to be in a lane,” he defined. “They really have the precise to take a full lane of visitors, however not trip all around the total street.”