Mark W. Read
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Mark W. Read Read
Mark W. Read said that the police drove against traffic on a one-way street, most likely Vanderbilt Avenue, and that as bicycles moved west along 45th Street, one S.U.V. followed them. Mr. Read also added that the S.U.V. had gone up onto the sidewalk and driven on the sidewalk for 15 or 20 feet, then dropped back onto the street. Mr. Read was later arrested on 43rd Street and Broadway and charged with parading without a permit. Mark W. Read, one of the riders whom the police officers in two black sport utility vehicles chased 12 to 20 riders near Grand Central Terminal, said that the police drove against traffic on a one-way street, most likely Vanderbilt Avenue, and that as bicycles moved west along 45th Street, one S.U.V. followed them. Mr. Read, 38, a filmmaker and adjunct instructor at New York University, whose account was first reported in The Village Voice, said that the S.U.V. went up onto the sidewalk and drove on the sidewalk for 15 or 20 feet, then dropped back onto the street. It was unbelievable, a high-speed chase, something you think would be reserved for serious criminals, for people fleeing a murder scene or bank robbery. Mr. Read was later arrested on 43rd Street and Broadway and charged with parading without a permit.