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Originally Posted by Magnus  I just read an article where Allred is saying that Mieses got off the bike to try to defuse the situation. I guess that's more believable defense than "he got off the bike to help his buddy that got rammed by the car".
The lawyer must have actually watched the video and saw that Cruz never fell to the ground from the bump.
Also, I wonder if she's doing this pro bono... I know the Mieses's families been getting donations but honestly, I don't think it'd be nearly enough to cover such a high profile lawyer. Gloria Allred: Injured biker was 'innocent victim' in clash with SUV - U.S. News |
Even if Mieses wasn't performing threatening actions there in front of that SUV, he was part of a looming gang on roaring machines that as a whole were menacing and terrifying that driver, his family and the driver likely had no time or inclination to study what any one guy was going at any given moment. He just floored it and tried to get away.
Allred was talking about how her client wasn't doing anything bad just prior to being run over. How in the world could that driver, husband and dad be expected, in that moment when his wife and child were at risk in his mind and to most viewers of the video, to try to assess whether all of the guys hemming him in ON A HIGHWAY, where it's usually illegal to slow down or stop, were behaving like choirboys or not? In his mind I'm sure all he could see was a mob closing in and see angry faces, hear roaring engines and his wife and kid screaming.