{"id":203284977,"date":"2011-06-11T20:02:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T20:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=203284977"},"modified":"2011-06-11T20:02:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T20:02:57","slug":"taking-a-stand-against-vehicular-assault-assault-with-a-dangerous-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=203284977","title":{"rendered":"Taking a stand against vehicular assault (Assault with a Dangerous Weapon)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though this story takes place in DC, it is worth noting the courage and conviction of this one cyclist who also happens to be a police officer. A truly eye opening experience in the ordeal to prosecute someone. And a bit of a inspiration:<br \/>\n&quot;&#8230;This isn&#8217;t quite as good because you&#8217;ll notice none of the vehicular assault charges were pressed. They were dropped. I think its just as important to show that you can&#8217;t use your motor vehicle to bully cyclists on the road.&quot;<br \/>\nIf you are in DC you can help but a point I would like to bring into Maryland &quot;[cycling advocacy organization] agreed to give a community impact statement.&quot; I&#8217;m not trying to avoid giving WABA credit here just pointing out one of many services a bicycle advocacy organization provides and if your are not in WABA&#8217;s territory there are other groups willing to help. The worst thing any cyclists can do when involved in an accident is feel like they are alone.  We are a community, and odds are if you are ill treated others are as well. Together we can make a difference.<br \/>\nThe full blog post <a href=\"https:\/\/girlonabicycle.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/victory-sort-of.html\">https:\/\/girlonabicycle.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/victory-sort-of.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though this story takes place in DC, it is worth noting the courage and conviction of this one cyclist who also happens to be a police officer. A truly eye opening experience in the ordeal to prosecute someone. And a bit of a inspiration: &quot;&#8230;This isn&#8217;t quite as good because you&#8217;ll notice none of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=203284977\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Taking a stand against vehicular assault (Assault with a Dangerous Weapon)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203284977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203284977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203284977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203284977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203284977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203284977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203284977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}