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Dirt Biker Fells Girl

A dirt biker was a real dirt bag to a 7‑year-old girl who had the nerve to stand at a bus stop with her father.

At least that’s the upshot of a police report about an incident that took place between 4:15 and 4:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Here’s what happened, according to police spokesman Officer David Hartman (with his exact words in quotation marks):

Officer Robert DuPont was trying to stop several reckless dirt bike riders” in Edgewood Park. Officers Chirstopher Senior and Ekrim Halim came to help. They saw one such rider, who refused to stop. He tore instead in and around Whalley, riding over sidewalks and caus[ing] near-collisions as he swerved through traffic.” He eventually zoomed down a sidewalk and knocked down a 7 year-old girl standing with her dad at a bus stop at Whalley and the Boulevard. The rider, who’s 22, didn’t stop.” He continued until apprehended after being ejected from the bike when he hit a curb. He didn’t submit to his arrest without a struggle, but Officers Senior and Halim had him in handcuffs quickly.” The man was charged with interfering, pursuit, risk of injury, reckless driving, and other charges.

Also Wednesday, according to Hartman, cops went to Bristol Street on a report of a loud domestic argument. And man and his wife had been fighting. She said he got angry about a discussion she was having with relatives over the phone, and assaulted her” and restrained her, preventing her escape.” The cops found broken glass on the floor” of an apartment in disarray.” The man said his wife had thrown glass and other objects at him. The cops arrested both of them. The man is 37 years old; the cops didn’t have an age for the woman.

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