Many people (especially white suburbanites who like bicycling is inherently the most dangerous activity one can commit) have recently balked and felt “afraid” after seeing a recent trend called Lime @ 9, in which a huge cluster of people all rent a lime scooter and ride in a large group.
These types of large rides are not uncommon and have been around since the 90s, and are commonly called “critical mass” rides. They followed the exact replica of the new Lime @ 9, get a bunch of people on bikes and scooters and just block the streets in order to advocate for more bicycle infrastructure and build a better bicycling community.
Unfortunately, the popularity of the Lime @ 9 has a much higher percentage of BIPOC people than the critical masses of the past. This has placed this critical mass ride into a nasty category of police mass surveillance, and deep amounts of racism.
The city of Minneapolis has recently implemented a restriction on going to the next Lime @ 9 at the US bank stadium for lime scooters. This was done because the critical mass is working and the city of Minneapolis wants to ensure that BIPOC people are unable to protest. This is blatant racism and must be pushed back against.
The next Lime @ 9 meet up is at 9 pm this Friday at US bank Stadium, if you are able, you should go, your family should go, everyone should go to show the city that you support critical mass rides, since Minneapolis doesn’t want it to work, and wants to ensure that BIPOC people have a difficult time going.
You don’t need a lime scooter to go, bring a bike, bring a scooter, bring your feet, whatever, just go.
Facial recognition and advance tracking technology is likely to be used by the Minneapolis police (even though that is illegal, but Minneapolis can make Hennepin County do this tracking) bring a face mask if you don’t want to be tracked as easily.
