A group of London cyclists wished to demonstrate that they too have a right to use the streets of
London during the Olympics
This resulted in 160 or so cyclists – an Olympic peloton’s worth – being arrested. Their bikes were loaded onto a bus and confiscated. The whole thing seems to have been handled in a way that the police have taken to calling ‘robust’: a man riding a tricycle was pepper-sprayed and wrestled to the ground; twenty cyclists were kept on a bus for three hours without food, toilets or legal representation, before spending the rest of the night in the cells.
Most of the cyclists were released over the next few hours, while Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish zipped round Surrey failing to win medals in the Olympic road cycling race. Their bail conditions specify that they’re not to go within 100 yards of any Olympic venue, not to enter any Olympic-only carriageway, and not to enter the London borough of Newham with a cycle.
The ‘people’s games’ have begun.
Source the London Review of Books
London during the Olympics
This resulted in 160 or so cyclists – an Olympic peloton’s worth – being arrested. Their bikes were loaded onto a bus and confiscated. The whole thing seems to have been handled in a way that the police have taken to calling ‘robust’: a man riding a tricycle was pepper-sprayed and wrestled to the ground; twenty cyclists were kept on a bus for three hours without food, toilets or legal representation, before spending the rest of the night in the cells.
Most of the cyclists were released over the next few hours, while Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish zipped round Surrey failing to win medals in the Olympic road cycling race. Their bail conditions specify that they’re not to go within 100 yards of any Olympic venue, not to enter any Olympic-only carriageway, and not to enter the London borough of Newham with a cycle.
The ‘people’s games’ have begun.
Source the London Review of Books
No comments:
Post a Comment