Anneudy Rodriguez
CRJ 201 – 005 / Policing
Prof. Agnes Halarewicz
Current Event / Report #1
October 8, 2013

“Biker Gang Highway Assault”

This article talks about one of the most spoken headlines during the month of October. While I was reading this article the main line that caught my attention was “an undercover police officer helped in the attack”, now my question is it’s a officer duty to react on another person life threatening situation? On Sunday September 30, a video footage was release on Facebook, were a range rover was chased by a group of bikers from the Henry Hudson Parkway to 178st Washington Heights right after an rampage takeoff. Everything started when one of the bikers began slowing down in front of the vehicle; the footage shows the SUV hitting the bike, in a fast motion all the bikers stopped and rushed the SUV driver’s door, not having another choice of safety for him and his family the guy reacted and took off running over 3 of the bikers in his way. Right after all the bikers started chasing the SUV until the SUV stopped on a red light on 178st in Washington Heights, that’s when one of the biker took off his helmet and started pounding the driver’s window where Alexian Lien was. Soon couple bikers joined and dragged Lien off the car where his wife and his kid where. Lien was viciously beaten, one of the bikers is in critical condition, both legs are broken, fractured spine and paralyzed from the waist down. According to the article “the undercover cop was not only witnessed to the entire assault but actually took part in it” - new footage shows the undercover detective punching and shattering the read window of the SUV but leaving the scene before the assault against Alexian Lien started.
It’s crazy and sad how can a 10-years veterans of “Law Enforcement” be working as an undercover on such a dangerous situation and instead of stopping it or at least helping thing to be solve in a more beneficial way has actually taking part on it not by enforcing the law but by breaking the law. On top of this, he didn’t notify his superior that he was at the scene of the assault until couple days after. Now his facing charging of mischief, riot and placed on modified duty giving his gun and badge and pending an investigation by IAB. He’s the sixth person to be arrested in connection with the assault. On connection to this situation, I believe that the driver of the SUV did the right thing because first, he reacted on his family protection. Second, if I was in his position and a group of around 30 bikers surround my vehicle and try taking me out the car, I’m taking off with out a doubt about it because they not trying to talk if they are rushing my vehicle door on some angry type of way. In my opinion all the blame goes to the undercover detective because he was the only one that could of have made a difference by at least helping the victim but instead of enforcing the law by providing safety, he rather leave a guy getting viciously beat-up. Now this is why a lot of people don’t trust the system, because when you really need them, they are not there, but when you don’t need them, they are there to harass you and violate your rights. Now who should pay for this? I personally pick that trash as detective to pay for everybody that got hurt.