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Did police officers put a woman down in Budapest because she ran a red light with a bicycle? – video
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The video taken of the events caused public outrage in Hungary, but the antecedents of the incident are not shown. The police later cleared the situation, details below.
According to index.hu, a Hungarian woman ran the red light last Saturday in Budapest, near the Bartók Béla street. However, she was caught by two police officers who wanted to halt her immediately. But the woman did not stop; instead, she tried to escape, and that is when police officers put her down. From this moment, a passenger started to record the events and later put his video on Youtube where many saw it and condemned the “brutality” of the police.
Since the antecedents are not on the video, nobody knew for hours what happened. They only saw that two police officers tossed on the hood of their car and handcuffed a woman who was
crying for help and was seemingly in shock.
The citizen who took the video commented that the measures the police took were not in proportion to the fact that the woman did not want to prove her identity.
A number of points.
It does not matter if it is a man or a woman. The police have the legal right to arrest someone if they refuse to cooperate.
Second, cyclists as a group frequently disobey the rules of the road. If a car is required to stop at a red light on what grounds can a cyclist ignore it?
Finally, now that there are cycle lanes on the Grand Korut why are numerous cyclists still riding on the sidewalk,?