Motorcyclist arraigned in NYC biker-SUV brawl

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By COLLEEN LONG

NEW YORK (AP) - A motorcyclist has been arraigned on assault and other charges in connection with the beating of a New York City man by a gang of angry bikers.

Robert Sims was arraigned Saturday in Manhattan on charges of first-degree gang assault, first-degree assault and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon.

Bail was set at $100,000. An attorney for the 35-year-old Sims did not immediately return a call for comment. There was no listed telephone number for Sims at the address where police said he lived.

A criminal complaint says Sims identified himself to police as one of the bikers depicted in a photograph of the incident wearing a grey backpack and motorcycle helmet emblazoned with the number 78.

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This undated photo provided by his family's attorney on Friday, Oct. 4, 2013 shows Edwin Mieses Jr. after he was struck by an SUV during a motorcycle rally in New York that turned violent on Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013. He suffered a broken spine, fractured ribs, a punctured lung and a torn aortic valve, his defense attorney, Gloria Allred, said Friday. His injuries may have left him paralyzed. (AP Photo/Family Photo via Gloria Allred)

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Boehner's GOP will look like that guy very soon, I hope.

....not to stray off-topic.

[brucefan]

2. Wow!

Could you be a little more off-topic?

[Township75]

3. Who is gonna do that to the? You or Obama?

Likely neithet

[840high]

7. Yet you enjoyed staying off topic.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

10. Dumb post

Really

[freshwest]

4. Quite a bit more right here, plus more photos:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2441485/Family-paralyzed-biker-Edwin-Mieses-Jr-says-trying-help-rider.html

[NYC_SKP]

5. OT: I was listening to an NPR podcast yesterday and the idiots called it a black biker gang....

...and then they went on to talk about how the SUV driver might have been scared of the dark people.

I mean really. REALLY?

So, they picked up silver helmet dude and grey backpack dude.

And, Gloria Allred (sp?) is talking to Meize's family.

Good Grief. And, still no word from the glorious mayor, AFAIK.


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[Ikonoklast]

6. His family is either mistaken or deliberately not telling the truth, no biker was knocked down

in the first contact where the biker purposely braked in front of the SUV. His tire got bumped, they already know no one was knocked over.

There was no one on the ground to 'help'.

There were other bikers stopped to box in and scream at the driver, though. Mieses was one of them.

[NYC_SKP]

11. I agree. The truth is that Cruz drove his bike into the front of the SUV.

If we think in terms of relativity, both vehicles were moving though space at pretty much the same speed.

Cruz deliberately moved to his left into the middle lane, and then decelerated taking the rear of his bike into the front of the SUV.

He literally drove his bike into the SUV.

Other accounts that tell of the SUV ramming or driving into the bike are false in every way.

:.

[Quixote1818]

12. Exactly, and Cruz is the one most responsible for all the chaos that followed including Edwin Mieses

getting run over. Mieses's family should be after Cruz and NOT the SUV driver, period!

[cpwm17]

13. To me, it seems like a group effort

Cruz just happened to be the one that played that role. Since he didn't go down and since the group as a whole had already forced the SUV to travel at an extremely slow pace, Cruz couldn't be much more responsible than any other rider that participated in the ride.

The riders had a sense of entitlement to behave that way since the police seemed to do little to stop them. The public are just intruders into the motorcycle riders' world. The riders own that town's roads.

[freshwest]

14. Even more here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2445011/5-duty-NYPD-officers-bikers-involved-Edwin-Mieses-Jr-SUV-attack.html?ICO=most_read_module

[ripcord]

20. I feel sorry for Mieses

I would feel sorry for anyone facing those injuries but when you are part of a mob you have to face the consequences of the entire group's actions.

[Ikonoklast]

21. We reap what we sow.

Unfortunately true in his case.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

9. "A Clockwork Orange" is on IFC right now. And real life version outside our doors in 2013

" "Droogs" commit barbaric acts in a near-future, dehumanizing society. Based on the book by Anthony Burgess".

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

19. Yes,

an interesting analogy.

[JI7]

15. New York police: Bikers stomped on SUV driver

About a half-dozen bikers accused of beating an SUV driver last weekend used their helmets to attack him and kicked his head and body as he lay on the ground , New York police said.

Police said one of the bikers -- Robert Sims -- also stomped on the driver's head and body, according to a detective's criminal complaint.

Sims was one of two bikers who turned himself in to authorities on Friday. He has been charged with attempted assault, gang assault and criminal possession of a weapon.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/06/us/bikers-attack-video/

[jsr]

16. Driver should have run over every goddamn one of them.

[Capt13]

18. so your the one who tuns left in front of me at every other light

[PSPS]

17. Here's a video of the incident