NYPD uses bulldozers to wreck renegade cycles in Red Hook
Police crushed about 70 motorbikes beneath bulldozers on Tuesday in Red Hook to send a signal to thrill-seekers who take dirt bikes and ATVs to city streets: They should be uneasy riders.
The public pulverizing spotlighted a New York Police Department crackdown on renegade riders, often young, unlicensed drivers who zoom and spin through some neighborhoods on bikes that aren’t street-legal.
“We want to send out a very strong message to the nitwits and knuckleheads who insist on operating these vehicles on the streets,” Police Commissioner William Bratton said Tuesday. They are “creating extraordinary dangers for not only themselves, but for the public.”