You can't tell clearly what happened in the video when he stopped.
You can clearly see they block him in (as evidenced when he had to run over a bunch of them to get out). You can clearly see them moved towards his car (which in and of itself is threatening, nevermind it's done in a threatening manner). You really don't need to know more than that to see he was justified.
Like I said, if it was just a couple bikes, it'd be much grayer. But since it's 100 bikers, it's definitely threatening.
And as glider said, an SUV is hardly a 'cage'. 5 grown men can easily flip an SUV. If you've been in or witnessed a riot you'd know this, but I'm sure there are plenty of videos online you can see of just a couple men flipping SUVs. Not to mention they break that cage in all of 3 seconds at the end of the video.
Does punching the side of an SUV constitute an attack worthy of running over people? Really?
YES, WHEN YOU HAVE 100 FELLOW BIKERS, IT DOES. 100 people closing in on your vehicle is threatening, and it's assault. Add on top of that that these are big, menacing bikers.
If it was an old women coming towards you car, it's not a big deal. If it's a big, male, biker, eh, you go to court over it and argue the fine details. When it's 100 bikers, it's extremely intimidating and the bikers need to be careful not to assault anyone.
in this case, they clearly assault the SUV. They block him in, they close in on him and invade his personal space (way closer than any rational person should get to a motor vehicle, whatever the line is, is definitely seen to be crossed at the video). SUV is fully within it's rights to get the **** out by any means necessary.
These guys in front could have had no clue what was going on. M
Yes, which is why they need to be especially careful to not be intimidating. Even if the bikers meant no harm and just emotions were high and they wanted to talk to the SUV driver, by nature of being a mob of 100, it's threatening and therefore assault. You simply cannot do that.
The bikers were wrong to confront the SUV driver as they did. Even if it was a single biker, if you get an accident and you pull that **** (getting within 1 foot of the driver), you are guilty of assault.
The bikers should have given the SUV space, maybe they could block him in (but not so close as to trap the SUV), and called the police. This is why vigilantism is not allowed. If the SUV driver wants to flee, he's allowed to, and the bikers just call the police on a hit and run.
They can follow him, but civilian's are not allowed to break traffic laws in the pursuit of another vehicle or trying to affect a citizen's arrest. And, the SUV clearly did not do a violent felony so the bikers had no right to try to detain the SUV driver.
You get 100 people with spoons they won't do much to your suv.
wut? Are you delusional? 100 people with spoons is
extremely deadly. That's the whole point. By being a mob of 100, you are a very dangerous group. It only takes ~5-6 adults to flip an SUV easily.
You can see the end of the video, it only takes 2 bikers to pull the SUV driver out of the car, in all of ~5 seconds. Bust the window with your helmet (or spoon), pull driver out, you have 99 other guys backing you up - even if they aren't, it appears so to the SUV driver and the SUV driver is right to assume they are all hostile. It's clear they are all hostile when all of them give chase, anyways.
And they are all armed too, by the way. Helmets, motorcycles, these are all weapons that in the hands of 100 people, is extremely dangerous.