How MSP’s tactical bike team trains for, assists in crowd control

by: Heather Walker, WOOD, June 10, 2020 Video: https://www.woodtv.com/news/grand-rapids/msps-tactile-bike-team-assists-in-crowd-control/ Photo by Cory Morse, MLIVE GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — After Michigan State Police’s tactical bike team made several arrests in a matter of...

Trek’s statement on police bikes

Bicycle Retailer and Indutry News, Published June 10, 2020 Photo: Eva Marie Uzcategui-AFP-Getty Images WATERLOO, Wis. (BRAIN) — Several hours after publishing a blog post about its diversity programs, Trek Bicycle released a separate statement regarding police...

The Police Are Weaponizing Bikes. Should Brands Stop Selling to Them?

BY ROBERT ANNIS, Bicycling Magazine, Jun 10, 2020 As protests against police brutality and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement have swept the nation, in response to George Floyd’s killing by a former Minnesota police officer on...

Fuji’s distributor suspends sales of police bikes in North America, begins dialogue with police

by Steve Frothingham, Bicycle Retailer and Industry News, June 8, 2020 UPDATED with company comment. PHILADELPHIA (BRAIN) — BikeCo, the North American distributor of Fuji bikes, has suspended sales of bikes to police forces, citing recent reports of police bikes...

Miami PD’s Bike Response Team and Their Role In the Recent Protests

By Jamie Guirola, NBC Miami • Published June 4, 2020 • Updated on June 4, 2020 at 10:08 pm Sunday night on live TV, South Florida watched as police moved back a crowd after a scuffle at CVS...

Trek Urged To Divest From Police Business After Bicycles Used Against Black Lives Matter Protestors

By Carlton Reid, Forbes Magazine, June 8, 2020 Photo: Adam Delgiudice-SOPA-LightRocket-Getty Trek Bikes is coming under increasing pressure to divest from supplying bicycles to U.S. police forces. This follows the publication on social media of photographs and videos of bike...

Topeka police, protestors find common ground at rally

By Grant Stephens, WIBW, June 06, 2020 Photo: Officers enter the middle of a protest of 200-250 people to open lines of communication.  The protest had been advertised as a riot and looting spree but the community came together...

Major bike brands criticise US police for using bikes as riot shields

Stickybotte.com, Posted on: June 6th, 2020 THE POLICE WERE SPOTTED INSTIGATING VIOLENCE MULTIPLE TIMES AGAINST PROTESTERS!! DO NOT LET THIS GO UNSEEN pic.twitter.com/dgLAug4dR1 — eddy | BLACK LIVES MATTER (@EDDIFUL) June 1, 2020 Photo: San...

U.S. Police Batter Black Lives Matter Protesters With Bicycles

by Carlton Reid, Forbes Magazine, June 5, 2020 Image: 1912 poster the Cyclists Battalion of the London Regiment, England. One week after George Floyd’s death at the hands—or, more accurately, the knee—of a U.S. police...

Fort Worth march ends peacefully after curfew when police kneel, pray with protesters

BY KALEY JOHNSON, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, June 1, 2020, updated June 2, 2020 Photo:  This officer was the first to kneel with protesters. He picked up flowers from the street and put them in his bag – Kaley Johnson on Twitter Watch the...