Normally I think CM is just a waste of time but harmless. However, heading for Stratford when the police and others are so twitchy about games security was in my opinion just stupid, unnecessarily stupid, and simply invited this OTT response.
I think they were making a point about public space
Don't get me wrong. CMers aren't intellectuals. They simply have a visceral objection to the way space, particularly public space, is ordered. Riding en masse around the centre of London turns the street from something on the way from A to B in to theatre. People, tourists, commuters, revellers stop and applaud (the same thing happens to the night rides I organise).
The Olympics is about the privatisation of public space, whether it be a bit of the footpath in Park Lane, the Zil lanes or the Olympic Park itself. Put simply you and I can go to less places in London than in past times. That shouldn't go unremarked.
Have you got a link to that video?
I recognise a few of the faces in the shorter video - they are the 'usual suspects' who have made CM less attractive to me...
along those lines , maybe not quite as much venom but it definately smacks of a naughty childs behaiviourSelf indulgent tossers with a loony anarchist fringe.
Why pepper spray a chap who can't get out of a chair?
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfftgb4KOlE&feature=youtu.be
It shows the officer trying to deal with the woman, but one by one, galant well-intentioned knights in shining armour come to her assistance. Obviously we don't know why he was trying to arrest her, but it is clear the 'disabled' bloke pulls a move Brian Jacks would be proud of.
Indeed, and the HOG patch suggests the same.It is difficult to be sure, but that looks more like a motorbike than a wheelchair.
It is difficult to be sure, but that looks more like a motorbike than a wheelchair.