This incident now has a case reference no: CHS 31616 17/02/2023. If you have any information identifying this individual, the police can be contacted with this reference.
URGENT: Does anyone know this man? Is he an employee, student, housemate or acquaintance of yours? Does he go to your gym, business or class? Tan leather satchel, red and black zipped sports bag and black leather lace-up shoes out of shot. No jewellery of any kind. Pale button-down shirt. Please message me on Instagram (don't trashtalk in the comments!) as this is a criminal case requiring factual information that IDs this individual. I am not able to engage in any correspondence beyond this. Please note that fraud by false representation, malicious communications and false allegations are illegal.
On Thursday 16th Feb at 10.30-10.35pm the man pictured was travelling down Oxford Street away from Marble Arch on a Lime e-bike. He turned right towards Harewood Place and in the junction crossing he directly full-on hit and knocked over a Black British man on a bicycle who was travelling straight on Oxford Street towards Marble Arch. The man hit the ground hard with his full weight and was very shaken and in too much shock to fully assess any injuries. The perpetrator simply stood there astride that Lime e-bike, did not ask the man he'd hit if he was okay, did not apologise, literally did not lift a finger to help, did not show any concern whatsoever and for the entire duration of the interaction (20 mins) did not even bother to get off his bike. An additional male passerby, also of colour and in a pale-coloured puffy jacket, initially helped the man who'd been hit get to his feet.
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On Thursday 16th Feb at 10.30-10.35pm the man pictured was travelling down Oxford Street away from Marble Arch on a Lime e-bike. He turned right towards Harewood Place and in the junction crossing he directly full-on hit and knocked over a Black British man on a bicycle who was travelling straight on Oxford Street towards Marble Arch. The man hit the ground hard with his full weight and was very shaken and in too much shock to fully assess any injuries. The perpetrator simply stood there astride that Lime e-bike, did not ask the man he'd hit if he was okay, did not apologise, literally did not lift a finger to help, did not show any concern whatsoever and for the entire duration of the interaction (20 mins) did not even bother to get off his bike. An additional male passerby, also of colour and in a pale-coloured puffy jacket, initially helped the man who'd been hit get to his feet.
What you see of the perpetrator here is exactly how he stood, even when being appealed to, beseeched and upbraided - with extraordinary clarity and self-controlled passion under the circumstances I thought - by the man he'd hit and knocked over. Witnesses (WOC friend and I) and the man who'd been hit tried to talk to the perpetrator for 20 minutes and he was dismissive, arrogant, smirking, careless, minimising, casual, insolent and tauntingly distant. At no point did he acknowledge what he's done, let alone take responsibility for his action, let alone apologise. He barely looked at the man he'd hit. The perpetrator ignored all requests that he exchange details with the man he'd hit and knocked over. This man has broken traffic laws and hit another road-user hard enough to knock them over and potentially cause great injury. These are illegal acts under multiple sections of the 1988 Road Traffic Act. All details have now been reported to the police and Westminster Council's CCTV will show what happened as it is, after all, quite simple. Oxford Street has some of the most intense CCTV coverage in the UK.
When I took this photograph at the end, he smirked, 'You can take my photograph as much as you like.'
This incident now has a police case number: CHS 31616 17/02/2023.
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UPDATES: I was messaged 1st thing Fri 17th Feb 2023 letting me know that the security teams looking after Oxford Street and the surrounding area have been passed this information. I was also contacted by the police at around 5pm 17th Feb. This incident now has a reference number: CHS 31616 17/02/2023.