Gloria Allred to the Rescue

Hot shot Democratic Party flack and bottom feeding California tort lawyer, Gloria Allred, is representing the family of Edwin Mieses the New York City motorcyclist who suffered two broken legs and a crushed spine as he and scores of other lawless bikers were terrorizing Alexian Lien and his wife and two year old child. Psst, Gloria, he literally doesn't have a leg to stand on. Allred is expected to claim that Mieses was an innocent victim of road rage on the part of Lien whose real crimes seems to have been being financially well off and driving an SUV.
Even the venerable, California based fraternal group, the Hells Angels has expressed outrage at the violence perpetrated by Mieses and friends. Speaking at the East Village headquarters one Angel branded the attack as appalling and unacceptable.
“That kind of behavior is unacceptable — and with a kid in the car, nonetheless! I have a 3-year-old niece,” said one biker who was hanging out at the Hells Angels’ East Village headquarters Thursday.
He slammed the thugs for taking the law into their own hands by chasing down and beating Internet executive Alexian Lien, 33, on Sunday after a fender bender on the highway.
“You get the name and license plate and let the cops deal with it. But violence? I don’t condone that,” the biker said.
“If that had been my kid and I was the one driving . . .” he said before stopping himself.
“It’s always a few people who give us all a bad name.”
Allred's case abounds with difficulties. The facts of the case are not in dispute. They have been viewed by more than a million YouTube viewers. Lien's fears were not unfounded as evidenced by the fact he was beaten and had his face slashed. Yes, the police were notified- 9 times in the space of about 4 minutes as Lien's terrified wife called 911 begging for help. Mieses holds no drivers license and will not be eligible to apply until 2017 because he has racked up 16 traffic violations in the past 14 years. The New York City jury pool is so hostile to motorcyclists that even legitimate personal injury cases by bikers seldom go to trial. Finally, Mr Mieses has managed to give even the Hells Angels a bad name.
One has to wonder who is paying Allred. The injured mope who is facing a lifetime in a wheelchair couldn't afford Allred's plane fare let alone her retainer. And why Allred? New York City has a shortage of lawyers? One suspects there is something of a perverse political agenda here that is better served by media melodrama than judicial reasoning.
Although this is the first documented time the biker group known as Hollywood Stuntz has been involved in violence it is not if diminutive Mayor Michael Bloomberg's  police force was unaware of its antics. Police received over 150 calls complaining of the bikers' activity the day of the attack upon Lien. There is speculation that they were attempting to blockade the expressway so as to be able to perform stunts uninterrupted by traffic. The video below taken after the incident shows the group's disdain for fellow motorists as well as the law.

Let me remind readers that all of this goes on in the same city where firearms and large soda drinks are verboten. As blogger Glenn Reynolds notes such behavior could get one shot in Knox Country, Tennessee. The same mayor who has ample time and money to promote anti gun legislation throughout the country allows his own citizens to be preyed on by vicious thugs. Perhaps a delegation from Colorado will want to trek to the Big Apple to promote effective law enforcement and traffic safety. One notices when watching NYC television anchors that the Hollywood Stuntz cretins enjoy some media support especially when the anchors refer to felonious assault as road rage. The felons in questions seem to have built a politically correct The Wild One aura in a wonderland where any right of self defense has long gone out of vogue. One can be sure that these type of shenanigans would not have gone on under Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Live Leaks downloaded hours of videos posted by gang members before they could be deleted from YouTube including this one showing the gang attacking a motorist in 2011.

Evidently stopping bikers from commandeering the public streets is just too much for Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly. What's a commissioner to do? The bikers are loath to stop for law enforcement and pursuits only lead to accidents so really the police's hands are tied. Of course stopping and frisking innocent pedestrians has its merits because there is always the off chance one of them may have a gun but on the open road, well boys will be boys. In this sad case the cowardice and cruelty of the bikers is surpassed only by the incompetence and obsequiousness of an out of control government that regards cyber bullying as crime and real crime as hijinks.
Update: From The New York Post:
An off-duty, undercover NYPD cop was among the pack of bikers who chased a family up the West Side Highway — and he stood by as the dad was hauled from his car and beaten, sources told The Post.
The unidentified officer waited three days to come forward Wednesday night. He has been placed on modified duty, and turned in his gun an badge on Friday, the sources said.
He rides with the New Rochelle-based Front Line Soldiers, a club that also counts several other cops among its members, a source said.
Internal Affairs is investigating whether those cops, too, were among the bikers — and whether they also witnessed the assault that left Internet exec Alexian Lien bleeding on the pavement as his wife and toddler cowered in their black Range Rover. See also 5 NYC Cops Involved in Attack on SUV