Escalating e-biker confrontations trigger escalating e-bike restrictions in Redondo, Hermosa, Manhattan
by Kevin Cody On opening night of the BeachLife Music Festival, two Fridays ago, May 3, a second generation Beach Cities business owner, and his girlfriend, a 20-year Beach Cities resident with two firefighter sons, left headliner Sting’s performance early to beat the exit crowd. As they were walking to their nearby condominium a group of e-bikers sped past them. One of the e-bikers struck the woman in her back with his hand, knocking her to the ground. The man chased the e-bikers. They stopped. Then, in the woman’s words, “They swarmed us like hornets.” The couple asked that their names not be disclosed. The incident took place just south of Captain Kidd’s restaurant, on Harbor Drive. The street was closed to traffic because of the festival. The woman said she swung her boho purse at the e-bikers as they buzzed her. The man said he picked up a No Parking sandwich board to ward them off. He said he was about to punch one of the e-bikers who had dismounted when “suddenly, two clocked me from both sides, picked me up and threw me to the ground and started punching and kicking me.” “I jumped on one of them and he threw me into the bushes,” the woman said. Bridgette Fredriksz and…
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