Officer raised possibility of police ramming motorcycles
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A group of motorcyclists who disrupted traffic by performing stunts on an Albuquerque roadway led a Bernalillo County sheriff's lieutenant to propose the idea of ramming motorcycles with police vehicles in similar incidents in the future.
Officers circulated emails after the Oct. 7 incident in which deputies reported that motorcyclists aggressively surrounded them, blocked them in and made threatening hand gestures. They say a deputy concerned about a motorcycle hitting a police car had pointed a gun at a rider who got close on Tramway Boulevard.
The Albuquerque Journal reports that Lt.