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The cyclist was in the bike lane at the time. More info:

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/12/08/bicyclist-struck-a...

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php/925411-Bicyclist-hi...

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There's no possible excuse for this, the office should be fired and arrested for man slaughter.

Typically, law enforcement officers are not fired until and unless there is a conviction.

Not even civilians face criminal charges for running over cyclists.

This is the saddest part. The NY Times recently ran an op-ed "Is It O.K. to Kill Cyclists?"

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/opinion/sunday/is-it-ok-to...

It appears that the answer is "yes, almost always".

Yes? And its an absolute travesty?

I dare you to scroll through http://www.streetsblog.org/ for a few pages. Unless you are DUI or run from the scene, being in a car is a license to kill people, no matter if you have been speeding, your license was suspended or your brakes defect.

Is there any dashcam video of the incident?

It was accidentally erased during routine maintenance. We do not expect this to materially affect the ongoing investigation.

Is that true, or the kind of dumb snarky one-line Paul Graham was talking about here:

http://paulgraham.com/hackernews.html

Neither article mentions it. Snark perhaps? Tragic nonetheless.

It was a sarcastic joke, and I enjoyed it.

To my knowledge, the camera is only recording when the sirens are on, not 100% sure if this is true so take it with a grain of salt but I don't think there will be footage.

Speculation: The dash-cam might have some type of buffer that allows for it to save the moments leading up to an officer turning on the sirens though so maybe it is saved.

The dashcam is always on when the lights are on, but I think it can be activated manually as well.

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