Road Rage and Cycling Video Hopefully, you will never be confronted with a road rage situation as bad as this one documented in this video. And, if you are confronted with a road rage assault, you should act in a manner that does to lead to a battery. If you are confronted with a situation similar to this one, you should consider filing assault charges with local law enforcement; of course, you need a name and/or license plate number to do so. First some background information, the definition of assault (per Wikipedia) is: In criminal and civil law, assault is an attempt to initiate harmful or offensive contact with a person, or a threat to do so. It is distinct from battery, which refers to the actual achievement of such contact. More The cyclist, who has not been identified, was riding Wednesday morning on Pacific Coast Highway in the Corona del Mar section of Newport Beach, an affluent community about 35 miles south of Los Angeles. He was riding in what’s called a share lane, which cars and SUVs can use when no bikes are present but is reserved for cyclists otherwise. The driver, Robert Lewis, apparently didn’t realize cyclists had rights to the lane and went on a tirade after his vehicle brushed the bike rider’s elbow. A friend of the rider caught the encounter on video and posted it to YouTube. Lewis also says, “If there wasn’t any witnesses, you know what I’d do to you? I’d pull Trump on you,” not explaining what he means by invoking the Republican presidential nominee’s name. He further calls the cyclist a “dead man walking.” Later, L.A. TV station KCBS interviewed Lewis, and he apologized. “I’m just an old surfer knucklehead, and I do apologize for using the words that I used,” he told a KCBS reporter. Newport Beach police are investigating the incident, the station notes. Watch the YouTube video — warning: plenty of profanity and slurs — and the KCBS report below.
View the 2:21 minute video on YouTube. After watching the video, if you were the victim of the assault in the video, could you control your emotions to avoid an escalation to battery?
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