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Former Seattle mayor compares cutting bicycle brake lines to arson

Jul 20, 2018, 11:21 AM

Former Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn...

Former Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn. (File, AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

(File, AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Cutting the bicycle brake lines is the same as arson, according to former Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn.

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Tweeting at the Seattle Police Department, McGinn wrote, “cutting brake lines on bikes isn’t like graffiti or a broken window – it’s the equivalent of arson. Someone could get killed here. Where’s the task force to find and arrest these people?”

In what became a thread, McGinn asks why the city isn’t taking action.

The city is aware of the issue. In March, the Seattle Department of Transportation received reports of vandals cutting the brake lines of bikeshare bikes. People using the free-floating bikeshare services were encouraged to test brakes before riding.

McGinn also took a jab at the media, saying if vehicles were being sabotaged, it would be “relentlessly” covered.

Here’s McGinn’s thread in its entirety:

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