TODAY: Memorial Ride and Vigil for Slain Bicyclist, Milt Olin

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Santa Monica Spoke, the bayside city’s local chapter of the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition (LACBC), is calling for people to join the ride from Calabasas to Downtown Los Angeles today to protest the County District Attorney’s refusal to press charges in the death of cyclist Milt Olin last December.

Organized by LACBC, Yield to Life, and Ghost Bike Foundation, the ride begins at the site where Olin was killed after a L.A. County Sheriff’s deputy hit him with his patrol car while he was sending an email from his on-board computer.

The schedule of Wednesday’s vigil ride is as follows:

• 4:00 p.m. Meet at crash site (approximate address: 22532 Mulholland Hwy, Calabasas, CA 91302)
• 4:15 p.m. Moment of silence
• 4:30 p.m. Start ride
• 6:30 p.m. Leave from the L.A. Zoo parking lot (5333 Zoo Dr, Griffith Park, CA 90027). Other riders can meet up here.
• 7:30-8:00 p.m. Arrive at District Attorney’s office (210 W Temple Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012) Vigil to be held outside Grand Park (south) entrance to DA’s office.
• 8:00 p.m. Candlelight vigil
• 9:00 p.m. End of event

From LACBC’s press release for the event: “The public is invited to join us at the beginning, ride with us, join us for the vigil, or meet us at any point along the way. For up-to-date information about the event, please see: http://www.la-bike.org/milt-olin or follow @lacbc or #RideForMilt on Twitter.”

In addition to the ride, LACBC Excutive Director Jennifer Klausner has penned a protest letter to L.A. County District Attorney Jackie Lacey, calling for her to reconsider her decision not to press charges against the Sheriff’s deputy involved in the crash.

Update: Los Angeles Streetsblog’s Damien Newton will be on KCRW’s Which Way L.A. tonight at 7 p.m. to discuss the crash. The interview will be broadcast at 89.9 on the F.M. dial and at the KCRW website. A direct link to the interview will be featured on Streetsblog L.A.’s morning headline roundup.

Jason Islas
Jason Islashttp://santamonicanext.org
Jason Islas is the editor of Santa Monica Next and the director of the Vote Local Campaign. Before joining Next in May 2014, Jason had covered land use, transit, politics and breaking news for The Lookout, the city’s oldest news website, since February 2011.

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