I've made many mistakes in my life.  I've learned to do it differently.  I've SAID many things that later had an epifany and made attempts to express myself more 'effectively'.  

I do condemn how they handled both those men.  I myself was in a situation where a couple from Montana got upset w/me and while I was stationary, the man took his huge SUV and started pushing me over while his wife had my hands pulling me over my bars.  Cops came.  Cops joked w/Montana man and let him go.  Fortunately for me, an observer employed w/EPD witnessed the whole interaction w/cops and a couple got in big trouble.  I had my bicycle bars imprinted on my inner thigh...a bruise that was an exact image of my bicycle bar.   I have never been so heartbroken over authority ignoring or even inquiring as to what happened.  

This is long overdue and again, thank you EPD for improving your methods for dealing w/public issues.  Thanks Ward for your comment and the reminder of those two fine male human beings