Everyone should watch this. NYPD's program of Courtesy, Professionalism, Respect is not working.

This shows an NYPD officer consciously attacking another human being with no provocation.
The officer appears to have committed perjury in his police affidavit saying that the incident was a result of the cyclist assaulting him.

Watch for yourself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUkiyBVytRQ

Quote from EILEEN CLANCY http://iwitnessvideo.info/

He (the cyclist) was arrested and charged with assaulting the police officer, which is a very serious charge. So he had two misdemeanor charges, I think, and a lower charge. And the police officer made a statement that he'd been basically run into, deliberately run into, by the bicyclist. And I think you can see from the video that the bicyclist is veering away from the police officer, who's pursuing this fellow.

I think runners, cyclists, in fact all the people in the city should not turn their heads this time.

Whatever you think of the Critical Mass Ride.  Whether they should get permits or not.  You should realize that according to the city rules any group of 50 or more is subject to arrest if they don't obtain a parade permit.  That would include some of the usual nike runs and definitely the big nike events.  How would you like to be body slammed while running because some officer decides he does not like your look, attitude, etc.

From http://www.assembleforrightsnyc.org/

parade permit rules adopted by the NYPD a year ago which were created without City Council oversight and require any group of 50 or more to obtain a permit. Currently, anyone in such a group without a permit is subject to arrest.

NYPD Officer Patrick Pogan, of the Midtown South Precinct, is the officer seen in yesterday's video knocking a cyclist to the ground during Critical Mass Friday. In criminal charges filed against the cyclist, Pogan made a statement summarizing the events and why he stopped the cyclist and arrested him. The Officer's statement is wildly, almost humorously, at odds with the video; and Pogan made his statement to the DA before the video was known about or seen by the DA.

Here is the except from the criminal charges against the cyclists. "Deponent" is officer Pogan.

"Deponent states that deponent observed the defendant obstructing vehicular traffic by riding defendant's bicycle in the center lane of traffic while traveling southbound on 7th Avenue at the above-named location and while weaving defendant's bicycle in and out of the center lane of traffic, thereby forcing multiple vehicles to stop abruptly or change their direction in order to avoid hitting the defendant. Deponent further states that the defendant's above-described conduct caused public disturbance and inconvenience in that it caused disruption of the normal flow of vehicular traffic."

"Deponent further states that upon instructing the defendant to cease the above-described conduct, the defendant steered the defendant's bicycle in the direction of the deponent and drove defendant's bicycle directly into deponent's body, causing deponent to fall to the ground and causing deponent to suffer lacerations on deponent's forearms."

Watch the video again.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUkiyBVytRQ

Next the city wants to require permits to take public video.  See details: http://www.citmedialaw.org/new-york-city-may-require-permits-and-insurance-public-photography