Posted on 08/28/2013 3:07:21 PM PDT by mojito
Andy Sweeney posted the selfie on Reddit, hoping to find the positive side to the violence that left him with a broken smile on a Northeast Portland street last weekend.
In the photo, the 20-year-old bicycle commuter and recent transplant from the Midwest flashed two shattered front teeth.
"Some kids threw a traffic cone at me while I was riding my bike down MLK," Sweeney wrote next to the photo of his now-jagged incisors. "Any other (expletive) areas I should avoid?"
Portland police, however, are taking Saturday night's unprovoked attack of Sweeney near Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Fargo Street more seriously.
It was at least the second time in less than a week that a group of teenagers had assaulted a bicyclist along MLK.
Last Tuesday night, Bill Lynch, 64, had just crossed MLK as he pedaled home from a garden party when someone in a group of "three to five young people" knocked him off his bicycle on the Northeast Going Street Neighborhood Greenway.
"They were walking down the middle of the street like they owned it," Lynch said. "I don't know what hit me. A strong fist? Something in someone hand? It hurt."
[....]
“When I filed a police report the officer said similar nighttime incidents had occurred in the neighborhood recently,” Lynch writes in a flyer that he posted in his neighborhood to encourage people to be more vigilant. “I learned there was another attack on Aug. 19. In a couple of cases, the bicyclists were beaten and had their bikes stolen.”
Sgt. Pete Simpson, a Portland police spokesman, said the officer who took the report in Lynch's case "had heard of more" assaults. "But I'm not sure how many," Simpson said.
(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...
Let's play guess the race!
Since the article oh so coyly refuses to describe the perps.
But it's just to be expected, since bicycles are all about "white privilege," you know.
So in liberal Portland, on the aptly named MLK Blvd, black kids are assaulting white cyclists, but neither the paper reporting on the story, the police, or the victims themselves can bring themselves to describe those who assaulted them.
Yes, yet again, reality intrudes upon the liberal mind. And the liberal mind does what it always does: it ignores a reality that has become inconvenient, even at the cost of great bodily harm.
Nothing good ever happens on MLK boulevard .. anywhere
Another 300 to 400 years of this stuff and Portland will be overloaded with converted former liberals packing heat.
MLK = Most Likely to be Killed
“I was riding my bike down MLK”
Stupid is as stupid does.
Maybe they’re drivers who’ve had to follow bicyclists along winding roads at five miles per hour with no way to pass.
Chris Rock says this and it’s funny. The average Freeper says it and it’s racist.
There’s one in St. Paul. I don’t go there.
Yeah, anywhere with FDR, JFK or Cesar Chavez in its name.
All one has to do if one wants drugs or whores, is find MLK Boulevard. Its the same in every town across this country. I wonder why?
Bicycles should be kept off the streets completely, IMO.
Avoid all streets and buildings named MLK.
btw, is there any truth that Detroit is about to change their name to MLK City?
You said it. MLK Boulevards are invariably lined with Section 8 housing, burned out crack houses, and overgrown empty lots. Yes, I've seen a few of them.
Anytime I am in a new city traveling, I look at maps to find the local MLK streets, blvd.hwys, etc. I know immediately not to drive anywhere near those areas...especially in a large city. Sad but true.
That’s the black area of Portland, no prizes for correct guesses though. I guess that Dutch-styled free bike program Portland had didn’t work out like planned.
Racism, of course. Haven't you been listening to the President?
Are all of those streets noted in Microsoft’s new “Avoid Ghetto” app?
Now do these guys expect to get paid, or do they do it for free?
MLK
It does a Body, no good. ;)
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