Starting in Baltimore. And let’s go to a local biking web site: Bikemore.com:⁷³⁵

“You may remember last April,” said the editor in 2014, “there were a number of assaults on cyclists around the Copycat Building on Guilford Ave.” Actually I do not remember reading how black people were victimizing white bikers because no one ever wrote a story on it.⁷³⁶

He reminds us he was a victim. And so were lots of other people. In April 2014, he told us the assailants were black. He actually captured his assault on his helmet-cam: Here’s how the April 2014 attack looked on YouTube and sounded on Facebook.⁷³⁷

Attacked by a group of teenagers on the bike route on the 1600-1700 block of Guilford Ave. You can hear when they threw a bottle at me from behind and then see when I try to grab my lock as a last resort as they started to attack, but dropped it.

Grabbed it before they did. Only damage was to my thumb when they stomped it. Took punches, but they must have hit my helmet, because I don't have any marks. Camera cuts out at the end around this time. On the ground I started yelling, "help help help.”

In the comments to the article, other bikers chipped in with their experiences on the same trail: Oh yeah, that’s been happening a long time.

In early 2014, I was summoned to New York City to meet with the crime reporter for the Grey Lady herself. The New York Times. While we waited for our corned beef and cabbage sandwiches, he told me about how he and his wife took a bike trip on their honeymoon.

“Wow, lots of black mob violence directed at people on bike trails and people riding bikes,” quoth I. I looked over. Crickets.

So I reeled off a few incidents, including a phone call I received a few weeks earlier about a guy who was attacked several times riding back to his Brooklyn home from Manhattan. Once a large group of black people threw rocks from high-rise public housing. And most recently, a group of black people knocked him off his bike and beat him.

Still nada.

Here’s another one from New York, from the Fox affiliate: “A man riding his bike down a Long Island road was attacked by a gang of young men.”

They punched and kicked him in the face then stole his bike. “Police did not have a very good description of any of the attackers. They were described as black males around 19 to 20 years old.”

Newsday reported the same crime, absent the description.⁷³⁸

Whatever: It’s something. The corned beef was cold. And nothing ever appeared in the New York Times.

In Minneapolis, members of the Midtown Greenway Coalition were suffering so many attacks while on bikes, they decided to start posting them, at least for a while.⁷³⁹

They stopped in April 2013, after two black people threw a Molotov cocktail from a bridge, nearly hitting a bicyclist. They caught them. Then the real story begins. Let’s go the Star Tribune: The bomb throwers⁷⁴⁰

may be too young to charge with a crime, a police spokesman said Thursday. “They’re at a real sensitive age,” said Sgt. Steve McCarty, who could only say the two suspects are not yet teenagers.

And thus did the Star-Tribune preserve its unblemished record of ignoring, condoning, minimizing and denying racial violence in Minneapolis. (That is documented you know where.) Even so, the whole “sensitive age” thing? That’s taking it to a new level: Both for the police PR dude and the paper.

And add one more chapter to your file on why black mob violence and black on white crime is under reported.

The Coalition stopped posting attacks after that. And the biker? No word about how the Molotov cocktail appealed to his sensitivities.

In Greenville, South Carolina, in August 2013, a large group of black people knocked Gideon Hackett off his bike while on the Swamp Rabbit Trail.

“The men taunted him throughout the attack and laughed as they walked away with his bike and other belongings,” said the local paper. “One of the men also pointed a gun at Hackett and, according to the teen, tried shooting him but the gun misfired.”⁷⁴¹

It took a few months, but they finally caught them: ⁷⁴²

Police say these “incidents” happens in the “city portion” of the trail. A reader filled in the blanks: “I don't think the trail is safe being it runs through crackville and crime infested areas.”

Police did not release the report of Hackett’s assault to the public for four days. They said it was an isolated event. Which, of course, was not close to being true. By September the attacks had become so frequent, lots of people had a meeting where they all bragged about being upset and promised never to let it happen again. Until it did. And does.

Down in Florida, the Tampa Bay Times reported in February 2014 that “Two cyclists and a pedestrian were robbed at gunpoint Saturday on a St. Petersburg section of the Pinellas Trail, police said.”⁷⁴³

These were at least two separate attacks.

The paper that likes to show off its Ten Pulitzers said that “teens” did it. But the readers dug a little deeper. Said Chris Pedersen:

The article fell a bit short in serving the community. There was no mention that crime on this stretch of the Pinellas Trail has sadly become a common occurrence.

Anyone that is familiar with this portion of the trail will usually use an alternate route instead. The "Just keep calm and carry on" response by the SPPD makes me wonder if they have accepted criminal activity as a fact of life on this stretch.

If this is true, warning signs should be posted for the sake of the uninformed residents or tourist that happen to blunder into this stretch of the trail.

Perhaps we should give Pulitzers to readers as well.

By July, the police confessed: There had been 17 robberies and assaults on the trail in the last two years. They announced plans for 25 cameras on the trail.⁷⁴⁴

The move was prompted by a spate of robberies in February including one attack where a woman was pistol-whipped in the face causing her to lose several teeth.

Another reader reminded the geographically challenged among us what the trail really is: “That trail is a mess and a horrible ride through the worse neighborhoods!!”

The police had some advice for bikers and hikers: Avoid “suspicious people.”⁷⁴⁵ Also avoid mentioning the central organizing feature of the violence. The attackers are black.

In August 2014, one woman either did not get the advice, or did not take it. They found her naked body in the bushes a few days later. A black man is under arrest for the murder.

The headline tells the story: “Murder victim's brother questions safety of Pinellas Trail.”⁷⁴⁶

Eight weeks before the murder, a WND reader issued a warning:

“We have a 30 mile bike path here in Pinellas county Fl. Most of it is great, but several sections that go through black areas are bad news. Young thugs hide in the bushes and run out and knock people off their bikes, beat them to a pulp and steal everything they have.”⁷⁴⁷

Everything.

In April 2014, the NBC affiliate in Washington reported three sexual assaults on a walking and biking trail in Maryland: “The assault follows a string of other local sexual assaults on jogging trails including the assault of two women in Frederick County and another near Rosslyn.”⁷⁴⁸

The reporter dutifully noted that police only had a vague description of the man. But she neglected to mention the part of the description they did have. Which the new site’s web page reported: He was black.