01-15-2007, 09:04 AM
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| Guest | Re: Two cyclists attacked and beaten in Portland
Gooserider wrote:
> Wow. And that's a bike friendly city. I hope the assailants are caught and
> sent to prison.
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> http://www.katu.com/news/5184291.html
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> PORTLAND, Ore. - Two cyclists said they were attacked by three teenagers
> near a north Portland bus stop on Wednesday.
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> The women, Ashley Gorman and her co-worker Heather Moles, were riding their
> bikes home from work when the attack occurred near Legacy Emanuel Hospital.
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> The cyclists said the teen girls were standing in the bike lane waiting for
> the bus and they had to steer their bikes around the group. The teens may
> have thought the cyclists rode too closely.
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> The next thing she knew, one of the teens kicked out Moles' tire, causing
> her to fall.
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> "I felt the thud, and then the tire went, and I went skidding into the
> road," Moles said.
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> That's when the beating began. Three teens punched both cyclists in the head
> and dislocated Moles' shoulder.
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> Jonathan Corey was passing by and helped break up the fight, pulling the
> teens off the cyclists.
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> "It became obvious who was the aggressor in the whole equation," he said.
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> Corey added that the assailants were ruthless.
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> "I felt like I almost didn't use enough force in retrospect as I might have
> wanted to to make the thing stop," he said.
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> One witness heard a racial slur aimed at the cyclists, who said they didn't
> hear it. The teens were black while the cyclists were white.
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> The cyclists wonder whether race had anything to do with the attack. They
> can't understand what caused it.
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> "I could imagine if we had said something but nothing was said," Gorman
> said.
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> Gorman suffered the worst beating. She went to the emergency room but has no
> insurance to pay for it.
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> "I got bruised up pretty good," Gorman said. "I got my behind handed to me."
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> A fourth teenager with the group apparently stood by during the attack but
> then apologized afterward just before everybody scattered and police
> arrived.
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And I thought Portland was generally regarded as very cyclist friendly!
If thats friendly I would hate to see hostile. Strange (or maybe not)
that race was mentioned in the article. I wonder if it was a
predominately black (African American or whatever) part of town.
Ken
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The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets
old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without
shocking the entire community. ~Ann Strong
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