Don’t ride your bike at Minneapolis airport; you could be tasered
A bicyclist tells an incredible story of police brutality after being stopped for riding his folding bicycle away from the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport after a flight in September.
Stephan Orsak, writing at his Greencycle website, said he was "rudely accosted, assaulted with battery," and tasered. He says he was complying with all the laws of the airport and Minnesota rules of the road at the time of the incident.
After he was hospitalized for observation, the 135-pound violinist was thrown in jail for 8 hours and eventually charged with six counts of obstructing officers, failure to comply, etc.; the usual charges you'll see in cases like this. ...
