If I were the one who was pulled over, I think I would be writing several complaint letters to city of Providence.
letters to:
public relations officer of the police dept.
- ask whether the dept has bias against cyclists?
- is it dept. policy to search bicycles when there is no cause?
- is it a normal procedure to intimidate private citizen by asking if they don't like police?
- is it normal to have 6 officers show up in force against a plainly visible unarmed cyclists? Again a form of intimidation?
- is the dept. under the impression that cyclist do not have the right to ride their bike on the street?
- or is it the departmental policy to ignore state law as fit?
- is it also a dept policy to deliberately intimidate private citizen when the officer feels like it. e.g. deliberately driving so close to the cyclist when there was an ample opportunity to avoid conflict.
or worse to jepardize the very lives of people they are entrusted to save and to serve
similar letters to the head of the police department.
and to the mayor/city attorney/council members...
I think they will get the tone of the letter and no city mayor nor council members want a lawsuit. I'm sure the officer will have a bit of talking to. He may not like it but deliberately jepardizing someone's life is no excuse.
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