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City of London Police Appeal - Can you help identify cyclist who violently head-butted a pedestrian.

Cyclist who headbutted pedestrian after jumping red light hunted by City of London Police +video

Incident happened on Farringdon Road last month and left victim needing stitches
by Simon_MacMichael
Tue, Sep 10, 2019 18:29
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City of London Police have appealed for help in tracking down a cyclist who rode through a red light then headbutted a pedestrian who had been crossing Farringdon Road on 22 August 2019 at around 13:45.

Officers say that after nearly colliding with the pedestrian, a 57-year-old man, the cyclist dismounted and headbutted him. The pedestrian needed stitches in a wound above his eye and also sustained ligament damage to his arm due to falling to the ground.

PC Fisk of City of London Police said: “We are asking the public to help us identify this cyclist, whose needlessly violent actions has left a member of the public with some nasty injuries.

“If anyone has any information about the man who carried out this assault, please contact us. He is described as a white man in his 40s, around 5ft 10, of medium build, with short greying hair.”

Police can be contacted on 020 7601 2115 quoting reference 19*446160. Alternatively, anyone with information can contact the charity Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.

Besides the video above, police also issued three still images captured by CCTV of the suspect.

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Simon MacMichael

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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Htc replied to peted76 | 5 years ago
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peted76 wrote:

That's exactly the kind of cyclist who give us all a bad name.  No care for traffic laws or anyone else, an entitled cycling scumbag.

Does a drink driver who kills his passengers give all drivers a bad name? Of course not. This is stupid. Some people are feckless, they are present in all walks of life. It doesn't matter what they are doing or what "group" they belong to.

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crazy-legs replied to peted76 | 5 years ago
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peted76 wrote:

That's exactly the kind of cyclist who give us all a bad name.  No care for traffic laws or anyone else, an entitled cycling scumbag.

Oh don't go there with the "give everyone a bad name" bollocks!

Did Harold Shipman give all doctors "a bad name"?
You can find any number of drivers who have killed or injured other road users and faced no jail time, no penalty - do they give other drivers "a bad name"?

No - so please stop with that, it's an awful phrase that needs fighting at every turn. If you used it in many other walks of life (eg a black person, a Jewish person, a gay person does [xxx]) and then said it gives other black people / Jewish people / gay people a bad name, you'd very quickly find yourself on the wrong end of a discrimination claim.

Some twat jumped a light and got arsey when he misjudged the move. Hopefully he'll get done for assault, the same as if a jogger had barged a pedestrian then come back and thumped him. Or a dog walker or a driver or a scooter-ist...

 

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peted76 replied to crazy-legs | 5 years ago
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crazy-legs wrote:

peted76 wrote:

That's exactly the kind of cyclist who give us all a bad name.  No care for traffic laws or anyone else, an entitled cycling scumbag.

Oh don't go there with the "give everyone a bad name" bollocks!

Did Harold Shipman give all doctors "a bad name"?
You can find any number of drivers who have killed or injured other road users and faced no jail time, no penalty - do they give other drivers "a bad name"?

No - so please stop with that, it's an awful phrase that needs fighting at every turn. If you used it in many other walks of life (eg a black person, a Jewish person, a gay person does [xxx]) and then said it gives other black people / Jewish people / gay people a bad name, you'd very quickly find yourself on the wrong end of a discrimination claim.

Apologies if you felt like that phrase needed standing up to, I'm clearly not up on the latest current acceptable PC phrasing. 

Also I think you'll find Doctors unlike cyclists are usually held in quite high esteem by the majority of the public, the odd serial killer among their ranks won't slow down that state pension from growing.  You can carry on arguing aginst 'phrases' but while you shout at your thesaurus and curse my lack of PC knowledge, I think you're missing my point..  which has been laboured by many others in this thread.

That cyclist is not one of my tribe.

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crazy-legs | 5 years ago
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A Daily Wail-reading work colleague of mine has just seen this on their website littered with the usual words like lycra lout, thug, violent, shocking... has just had a rant about this saying how all cyclists need to pay road tax.

I pointed out that payment (or otherwise) of a tax didn't mean that some people wouldn't behave like that so she went on to number plates.

DM made sure to point out that he was RLJing and a cyclist and a thug and probably kicked kittens to death in his spare time. Because he was a cyclist.

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Wiltsrider | 5 years ago
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How come only two comments? Neither sympathetic to the victim, if this was the other way round there would be a dozen comments calling for the pedestrian to be locked up.
A thug on a bike is still a thug.
I hope the victim makes a full and speedy recovery and this scumbag is caught and locked up.

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burtthebike replied to Wiltsrider | 5 years ago
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Wiltsrider wrote:

How come only two comments? Neither sympathetic to the victim, if this was the other way round there would be a dozen comments calling for the pedestrian to be locked up. A thug on a bike is still a thug. I hope the victim makes a full and speedy recovery and this scumbag is caught and locked up.

Thanks for saying that, couldn't agree more.  This thug does need locking up.

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bertisfantastic | 5 years ago
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Was the pedestrian wearing a helmet?

 

 

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Hirsute | 5 years ago
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Would have been easier to use the dedicated, segregated cycle highway.

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