protect and serve one more time;

Norfolk, VA — In the land of the free, police can and will detain and extort you for improper bicycle lighting. If you try to escape this extortion, you can be mowed down by a police cruiser, mauled by a police K9, or, as the following incident illustrates, you will be hospitalized with a shattered leg.

On the night he was attacked by police and hospitalized, Derrick Roundtree had harmed no one, committed no crime and was merely riding his bicycle back from a nearby convenience store. After leaving the store, Roundtree continued to his friend’s house in the Tidewater Gardens public housing complex.

It was Christmas Eve in 2018 as Roundtree rode his bicycle home, passing a Norfolk police officer in the process. That officer, Aaron Christie, briefly flashed his lights and said something inaudible over the loudspeaker as Roundtree rode by.

Roundtree — as he was on a bicycle — was confident that the officer must have been going after someone else, so he continued to slowly ride back to his friend’s house.

Clearly having nothing better to do than to attack and arrest people over bicycle lights on Christmas Eve, Christie initiated a pursuit and drove after Roundtree. The interaction was captured on body camera footage and is now the subject of a $1.5 million lawsuit.

As the body camera footage shows, officer Christie jumps out of the cruiser and begins running after Roundtree, who is not attempting to flee at all. Roundtree is slowly peddling down the sidewalk as Christie runs up behind him, never identifying himself as a police officer and only saying “stop” one time before waylaying the innocent man, sending him crashing into the concrete.

The fall broke Roundtree’s leg in multiple places and as he writhed in agony on the ground, this innocent 43-year-old on his way to his friend’s house, tried to figure out why he was just attacked by police.........read and watch more......