This video has received enormous attention on the Internet recently with hundreds of thousands of views in just a few days.

It shows a New York City police officer picking a cyclist at random and violently assaulting him.

This kind of things has been going on in the US for many years.

Click here for a detailed report of a mass assault by police officers against cyclists ordered by then Mayor Willie Brown.

Mass Police Attack Ordered Against Critical Mass Riders by San Francisco Mayor (1997)

Note: The account of this attack was one of the very first “blogs” in Internet publishing history.