Former New York City mayor David Dinkins says he was never aware he had struck a bicyclist with his car earlier this summer.
Dinkins made the claim in response to a lawsuit filed Friday that says Dinkins left the scene after striking a bicycle deliveryman June 30.
The former Democratic mayor said in a statement Saturday he was driving his wife to the hospital when a man told him Dinkins’ car had been hit by a bicycle half a block away.
Dinkins says he later returned to the alleged accident scene but didn’t find anyone there. He says police interviewed him and inspected his car.
However, the lawyer for alleged victim Rodrigo Garcia says Dinkins’ car clipped Garcia’s bike, throwing him to the ground and breaking his ankle.
(AP)
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My my. If it’s true that he hit him, and I have my doubts, we should have a Crown Heights situation. Where is Sharpton/Carson? Where are the rent-a-riots? How can we allow the reckless Mayor to get away with a hit & run? I think they should allow some venting in the Spanish community. Burn down some shops. Flip over some police cars. You know, the usual.
how about the crown heights riots? was he aware of that??
Dinkins is lucky they didn’t go all “crown heights” on him for that.
someone else would have been charged already!!!
Anyhow, This lowlife belongs in jail, he has blood on his hand.
Let’s get Fat Al to start some riots. HISPANIC ANKLES MATTER!
This from the Person who let the Crown Heights Riots happen in the name of
A PERSON WAS HIT BY A CAR BELONGING TO THE JEWISH MOTORCADE”
Sweet Justice.