In case you do not know who I am, my recent activities include working with the Maryland Highway Safety Office to ensure guidance to both bicyclists and motorists are in agreement and accurate per the law. I am very concerned about traffic safety as well as knowledgeable on what the law says and does not say.
With that said I am horrified by what the police charged bicyclists Jack Yates with in his tragic traffic fatality… motorcycle violations. Yes that’s right the police erroneously put bicycle rules and motorcycles rules into a blender and pulled out whatever they could to to make it seem that the bicyclists was at fault. Needless to say I am outraged. And the story does not stop there, accusations of "one of the sloppiest police investigations in a fatality that I personally have seen in years" exist, missing facts from the police report, inflammatory remarks made by the police just after this tragic death "There is no "right to the road" as a cyclist."
Improper law enforcement should not be tolerated especially when imposed on an outstanding member of the community. If the argument below is not convincing to Lt. Leslie Bank and other Baltimore City Police officers involved in this "investigation" have them contact Peter Moe of the Maryland Highway Safety Office.
Thank you for your attention on this matter.
The argument "below":
Yates – discussion of the "facts" and why the police got it wrong
https://www.baltimorespokes.org/article.php?story=20101202133743715oldId.2010120216593368