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October 11, 2013 Andy Cush

Yet another NYPD officer has come forward and admitted he was riding with the group of motorcyclists who chased down and beat a driver last month. Matthew Rodriguez, 28, serves in the internal affairs bureau–ironically, the division of the NYPD devoted to investigating wrongdoing by cops like this one. Rodriguez is the latest to come forward […]

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October 9, 2013 Andy Cush

As we reported yesterday, one of the motorcyclists involved in the chasing and beating of Alexian Lien–an incident that’s received widespread attention due to a viral video–was an undercover cop. Now, Wojciech Braszczok, an NYPD detective, has been arrested for riot and criminal mischief. According to the New York Times, “more counts could be added.” Braszczok told police of […]

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October 7, 2013 Andy Cush

Last weekend, a group of motorcyclists out for a group ride were involved in an altercation with a driver on the West Side Highway that resulted in an SUV running over one of the bikers, and the subsequent beating and knifing of the SUV’s driver. Now, it turns out three of the bikers in that […]

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October 3, 2013 Andy Cush

Allen Edwards, the man who can be seen punching through the back window of an SUV at the end of a motorcycle chase video that went viral earlier this week, will not face charges. Edwards turned himself into police Tuesday, and was promptly arrested on “reckless endangerment, criminal mischief and menacing,” according to the New York […]

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October 2, 2013 Andy Cush

If you’re wondering how the group of bikers who beat and knifed Alexian Lien after he ran over a group of them were able to get as far as they did before the cops intervened, here’s a possible answer. According to a source at the NYPD contacted by the Post, the department has a laissez-faire policy about […]

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October 1, 2013 Andy Cush

The Daily News is reporting the driver in the West Side Highway motorcycle chase/fight footage that went viral yesterday is Alexian Lien, a 33-year-old man working in finance and tech. As was initially reported, his wife and two-year-old child were in the car with him. According to police, after Lien stopped his car near the end of the […]

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September 30, 2013 Andy Cush

Not a ton of context for what’s going on here, but here goes: a group of motorcyclists are out for a ride on the West Side Highway Sunday, when, for some reason we’re not privy to, one of them brake-checks the driver of a black Range Rover. The driver doesn’t slow down in time and […]

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