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This is the War on Cars. I'm Doug Gordon. So in early June I was marching up Flatbush

Avenue at a Black Lives Matter protest here in Brooklyn when I saw a swarm of people

on bikes ride by. There were hundreds, if not thousands of people on bikes all riding

together, chanting, ringing their bells and

showing their support for the Black Lives Matter movement.

Somewhat coincidentally I had brought my bike to the March that day not because

I intended to ride it while protesting, but because I hope to ride it home.

You know, there had been this 8 PM curfew that was instituted by the mayor and the police department, and it to all sorts of trouble so I figured you know wherever I wind up

I just want to be able to ride home as quickly as I can

So when I saw this ride go by I just joined in hopped on my bike and before I knew it I had ridden through a bunch of Brooklyn neighborhoods in no time at all

Surrounded by people with signs clipped to their bikes and all of these people on the stoops of their buildings and on the sidewalks raising their fists and cheering, even the drivers, they were all honking in support.

That ride, I later found out, was organized by a group called Street Riders NYC.

The street riders are seven black men who met at some of the recent protests.

In the first week or so after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer,

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