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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And this is just a question re broader issues surrounding policing: honestly if he was not Black what is the likelihood he would have been stopped at all?[/quote]

I’m white and got ticketed for jay walking in Adams Morgan. It’s pretty dangerous to ride a fast machine on a sidewalk.  With Philadelphia ransacked, MPD probably correctly felt the need to not allow total chaos to break loose in DC. [/quote]

I sustained scrapes and bruises in NYC once when knocked over by a speeding bicycle on an NYC crowded sidewalk.  Plus smelled like urine and likely landed in a puddle .  C'est la vie.

Considering the protests-rioting-looting during the pandemic the police should not do anything that could exacerbate or be a causation of such. [b] No police should even have bothered with him at all...drive on by from when they saw him on the sidewalk. [/b] If people were on the sidewalk? Ignore him. Was he lawfully operating the moped?  Seems not.  If he injured some one or himself then so be it.  Having been pulled over and know other pulled over basically one cooperates with police.

The John Doe might have been because he had no license or other id in his possession.  DC courts show incidents with John Doe then the name.  Assuming same individual some one called in a breaking and entering in June - resisted arrest -broke officers hand.  All the more reason for police to do nothing since situation could develope.  Civil unrest isn't worth it unless a call could prevent injury etc to an innocent party.  In Philadelphia policee were called and sadly some one had to do something about the knife.  DC police should have just ignored Hylton.

https://dmv.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dmv/publication/attachments/June%202018%20Non-traditional%20Motor%20Vehicle%20chart.pdf[/quote]

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