As many as 30 all-terrain vehicle (ATV) riders surrounded and stopped an ambulance transporting a sick child on Monday, D.C. police said.
One of the bikers opened the ambulance door and threatened the driver. The ambulance driver was forced to called the police. The child in the ambulance was unharmed.
The incident on Monday involving a gang of ATV bike riders occurred just two days after a motorcycle-riding D.C. police officer was hit by a group of move than 50 ATV and dirt bike riders and dragged down the road.
“We have a gang of ATV and motorcycle riders blowing through stoplights, completely disregarding the safety of anybody that’s walking on the side of the street. There was a Segway tour coming through. There was no respect shown to anybody,” said Jeffery Johnston, who captured video of group of bikers just blocks away from where the ambulance was surrounded.
Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia Chief Cathy Lanier said the biker gangs “come back every summer.”
“It’s about seven jurisdictions,” Lanier said, including local, state, and federal law enforcement “all working together” to stop illegal ATV and dirt bike riders.
Last August, D.C. Metro police began offering $250 rewards in exchange for information on illegal dirt bikes and ATVs.
Police departments from Miami to Philadelphia have been grappling with ways to crackdown on the growing number of illegal dirt bike and ATV riders flooding their streets.
Last January, Miami-Dade police had to brace for dozens of bikers who were riding through the streets and terrorizing Martin Luther King parade goers.
Earlier this month, Philadelphia police seized 53 dirt bikes and ATVs in a city-wide sting.
“Mini-bikes, dirt bikes, all-terrain vehicles and other motorized bikes and multi-wheeled vehicles pose a danger to pedestrians and other motorists and are illegal to operate on DC’s streets,” a police flier distributed last year to D.C. residents said.
The suspects involved in this week’s incidences in D.C. remain at large.
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Thank you Flee …
I was but not often am a Dirt Bike Rider anymore … yet I do have Dear Ones that still are …
I would assume they dont like the ATV’s and Dirt bikes because they are very maneuverable ( IE can get away , we cant have that now) and because there are no license plates to copy down and find out who they are
cop dragged ? they say that like it was a bad thing
many ways to look at this, , but if it upsets the PAB .. and elites .. than you know it cant be all bad
also notice not much MSM media coverage about this ….at least as of yet
I dont quite get the ambulance and kid issue , unless thats to distract from the real reason this act is being done .. they have to make them out to be the bad guy or the propaganda wont work
“also notice not much MSM media coverage about this ….at least as of yet”
That’s because they are mainly “troubled youth” as the media would call them but refrain from bringing to the attention of the public what they truly are……….
*** I would assume they dont like the ATV’s and Dirt bikes because they are very maneuverable ( IE can get away , we cant have that now) and because there are no license plates to copy down and find out who they are ***
Bingo!
*** cop dragged ? they say that like it was a bad thing ***
Yeah, really. I can’t speak to anything else the bikers might be accused of doing, but if they took a pig for a very harsh and bumpy ride, I’m not going to complain one bit. Too bad the pig’s head didn’t pop off.
Must belong to the wrong club Or something