Police chasing young man on bike near Dulwich Library

[Jellybeanz]

Anyone else witness CRAZY driving - speeding, stop, start, reversing, veering to wrong side of road... a car trying to literally follow a teenager on a bike. Whatever the guy had done this was seriously erratic and dangerous driving by the police. Could easily have caused an accident and injuries. Thank God the cyclist got away before 2 police vans arrived to help give chase.

[vladi]

Was the "teenager" using one of these electric bikes with fat tyres?

[Jellybeanz]

Nope just standard bike 

[sidebirdz]

Can you provide a description of the young man?

[Sue]

13 hours ago, sidebirdz said:

Can you provide a description of the young man?

Here we go again ....

The police are involved. Why do you need a description?

You don't even know why the police were chasing him. If indeed they were.

13 hours ago, Jellybeanz said:

Anyone else witness CRAZY driving - speeding, stop, start, reversing, veering to wrong side of road... a car trying to literally follow a teenager on a bike. Whatever the guy had done this was seriously erratic and dangerous driving by the police. Could easily have caused an accident and injuries. Thank God the cyclist got away before 2 police vans arrived to help give chase.

I assume there are channels for reporting this to the police if you feel the driving was inappropriate for the circumstances.

Edited July 2 by Sue

[Penguin68]

13 hours ago, Jellybeanz said:

Thank God the cyclist got away before 2 police vans arrived to help give chase.

Well, let's just hope, then, that the cyclist wasn't one of those who are phone snatching, and the driver not someone trying to make a citizen's arrest, otherwise this narrative would be stood on its head.

[HeadNun]

In my experience working with police, esp Roads Policing, they don't drive erratically and dangerously. Most of them will be TPAC trained, or done advanced driving at the very least. Police in car chases live in fear of injuring or killing a member of the public, it genuinely is one of their worst nightmares. So I feel safe assuming that whatever the kid on a bike had done, the pursuit and tactics were justified. That's assuming the car was police... you suggest it was, but I'm not so sure. 

13 hours ago, Jellybeanz said:

Anyone else witness CRAZY driving - speeding, stop, start, reversing, veering to wrong side of road... a car trying to literally follow a teenager on a bike. Whatever the guy had done this was seriously erratic and dangerous driving by the police. Could easily have caused an accident and injuries. Thank God the cyclist got away before 2 police vans arrived to help give chase.

I don't understand "Thank God the cyclist got away before 2 police vans arrived to help". Help the car, or the cyclist? 

Edited July 2 by HeadNun

[Sue]

I don't understand this thread.

If police were involved to chase the cyclist, why does the OP say "thank God the cyclist got away"?

Police don't chase random cyclists who have done nothing wrong!

I had originally assumed that the original chasing car was a police car, as the OP talks about "seriously erratic and dangerous driving by the police", but it seems not?

Unmarked police cars put on blue lights when they need to make themselves known. There have been quite a few around in this area lately.

Surely a police car would have put on those lights before giving chase?

Edited July 2 by Sue

[HeadNun]

Yeah, I'm confused now too. 

[Sue]

54 minutes ago, Penguin68 said:

Well, let's just hope, then, that the cyclist wasn't one of those who are phone snatching, and the driver not someone trying to make a citizen's arrest, otherwise this narrative would be stood on its head.

That seems the more likely scenario, doesn't it?

I suspect unwarranted assumptions have been made.

What is the evidence that the car was a police car?

What is the evidence that two police vans arrived later "to help give chase"?

To "help"?

If the car was not a police car, other interpretations of the situation are possible, as said above.

It could be that the cyclist had done nothing wrong and was trying to get away from the pursuing car for completely other reasons. Who knows?

It's very easy to jump to conclusions without knowing all the facts. 

Edited July 2 by Sue

[HeadNun]

Either the car was on blues or it wasn't, maybe OP can clarify? But I still don't get why it would be a good thing that the cyclist escaped from two police vans - they would have either arrested or protected him, depending on the scenario. 

[Penguin68]

I have reported on this site before of an incident witnessed by my daughter when a cyclist was attacked by a car driver (with his car) as a clear road rage incident - which the police only responded to with a questionnaire sent to my daughter several days later, her having reported the incident to the police on her phone as it was happening. The cyclist was slightly injured and his bike totalled.

However this incident as described may well be a car driver responding (probably ill advisedly) to a phone or similar snatching incident - we do know that goes on and in spades recently. The (very probably) later arrival of the police cars may well have been a response then to a report of a crime (and not dangerous driving) - but here, please note everyone, I am just speculating.

[sidebirdz]

<personal attack removed - admin> 

Edited July 3 by Administrator
Remove uncalled for personal attack against another forum member. Posts quoting this one have been removed.