Tag: violence
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Man uses bicycle to fend off knife-wielding assailant
Seattle Crime reports that a man used a bicycle to defend himself from an assailant with a butcher knife around 1 a.m. June 10 near Minor and Pike. The victim said he was standing near his friend’s bike when the suspect tried to take it. They started yelling and shoving, and the suspect pulled out…
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Two people riding bikes assualted by angry drivers this week
So, this is downer news. There are two different reports from the past week of people riding bikes being assaulted by people driving. The most recent report comes from Nina Shapiro at Seattle Weekly, who happened to be on the scene yesterday on Alaskan Way: SW happened to be on the scene, and saw the…
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Violent rhetoric and bicycles
It’s been a couple days since biking Congresswoman Gabby Giffords was wounded in a shooting that killed six people and wounded 13 in Tucson, Arizona. Since the January 8 attack, there has been a constant call for calming violent rhetoric in politics. People are particularly angry about Sarah Palin’s target map from the midterm election.…
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