On the last Friday of every month cyclists meet up to do group rides called Critical Mass. We're talking as few as 10 or as many as 1,000s. This past Friday in Brazil there was a Critical Mass which ended in tragedy. WARNING, this is hard to watch. If you got the stomach fast forward to 0:45. My thoughts are with those riders.
The dude that ran over those riders is claiming self defense. WTF? Here's an except of the article:
"The central bank official, Richard Neis, 47, who ran over dozens of cyclists in the Lower City , on Friday, was presented to the civil police around noon on Monday for questioning.
Neis came to call the Bureau of Crimes, Traffic accompanied by two lawyers and escorted by four policemen from the Special Operations Battalion (SOB). To escape the press, who waited in front of the building, he entered the parking lot.
According to the lawyer Luis Fernando Coimbra Albino, Neis plead self-defense of himself and his 15 year old son. The driver decided to come forward to say that plowed into the cyclists after feeling threatened by alleged coups against his black Golf."