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Originally Posted by Gummee
Let me get this straight: I get hit with a mirror and that's OK?
Guy gets out of his car and starts throwing punches and that's OK too?
...but I knock the guy down and make sure he's not getting up to do it again and that's NOT OK?
Did I get that right?
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Of course its not ok for a motorist to hit a cyclist with any part his/her automobile. If this happens, your recourse is to call the police, and if injured, to seek to recover your damages.
If you are confronted and threatened by a motorist, You may use that amount of force reasonably necessary to defend yourself. The moment you use more than that reasonable amount of force, you become the aggressor.
At least from the initial story, it appears that the cyclist here continued to use force after the motorist no longer posed a danger to him, and in fact continued to beat the disabled driver. If this proves true, the cyclist was in the wrong.
However, It is unclear what actually happened here. The follow-up stories reference a passenger who also got out of the truck. There's no mention of what he did. This whole thing sounds f&$@ed up and the media coverage is very suspect.