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It’s been a while since we had something new to report on the now infamous New York City incident between a group of bikers and Alexian Lien who ran over several motorcyclists with his Range Rover before he was pulled over and brutally beaten.
Today, we learned from Jalopnik that news station ABC 7 got its hands on two new videos showing the moment that the bikers attacked Lien in front of his family, which were filmed by an eyewitness, who has already shared the footage with the police.
The report said prosecutors believe most of the bikers who have been arrested over the past couple of weeks can be seen in the clip shot on September 29.
Meanwhile, the lawyer who represents undercover narcotics detective Woljiciech Braszczok, who was revealed to be involved in the incident after being filmed smashing the rear window of the Range Rover at the end of the original video, John Arlia, said on Tuesday that his client no longer plans to testify before a grand jury.
"My client, with the advice of counsel, has decided not to testify before the grand jury," said Arlia who added that Braszczok never laid a hand on Alexian Lien. "It shows at no point in time him coming in contact with Mr. Lien. He will be seen separate and apart from the attackers, at no time going near them," he said according to an NBC NY report.
“I want to be clear about this: no one would ever want to put blame on a victim of an attack," added Arlia. "He is sorry the individual was injured. It was never his intention to have anyone harm him. But the facts were set in motion after Mr. Lien crushed Mr. Mieses' spine. My client just wanted to stop him."
When asked why the off-duty cop did nothing to stop the beating of Lien, Arlia said that "things obviously got out of hand, and it was not under his control. He is an undercover officer. Compromising his anonymity could compromise his and his family's safety."
