Mr. Mark W. Read

Based on the expertise of Eileen Clancy, a forensic videographer at I-Witness, Mark Read, a video activist and professor at New York University, and Kamau Franklin, a lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights and member of Copwatch, the video will examine some of the contemporary issues around the use of video as a "grassroots" medium.

Mark W. Read, Adjunct professor, NYU, Brooklyn, NY

One of them, 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.

"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," said Mr. Read, 38, a filmmaker and adjunct instructor at New York University, whose account was first reported in The Village Voice."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.

One of them, 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.

"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," said Mr. Read, 38, a filmmaker and adjunct instructor at New York University, whose account was first reported in The Village Voice."It was unbelievable â€" 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.

One of them, 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.

"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," said Mr. Read, 38, a filmmaker and adjunct instructor at New York University, whose account was first reported in The Village Voice."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.

"There were two [undercover] black SUVs gunning it on the heels of 15 or 20 riders," reports Mark Read, a 38-year-old filmmaker and adjunct professor at New York University.