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Lien and many of the motorcyclists stopped their vehicles. The video shows many of the bikers gathering around the [[Range Rover]] driven by Lien. "And as they're around my car, I feel it being hit, being kicked," he said.<ref name=ABC/> Lien accelerated to escape, reportedly driving over three motorcycles and a rider, named Edwin Mieses, who had dismounted and was in front of the Range Rover. "I'm horrified at this point, and I recall asking my wife, 'What do I do? What do I do?' She says, 'Just go! Just go! And I make a hard right because I see there's an opening and I ... I just go." Lien said.<ref name=ABC>{{cite news|last1=Long|first1=Colleen|title=Biker Melee Victim Testifies in Undercover NYPD Cop's Trial|url=http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/trial-begins-undercover-nypd-detective-biker-melee-31123670|agency=ABC News|date=May 18, 2015}}</ref><ref name=chase>{{cite news|title=Motorcyclists Chase, Attack SUV driver in New York|url=http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/motorcyclists-chase-attack-suv-driver-new-york-20424104|newspaper=ABC News|date=2013-09-30}}</ref> Mieses was severely injured, suffering a fractured spine and punctured lung.<ref name="nytimes">{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/05/nyregion/injured-biker-was-playing-peacemaker-when-suv-hit-him-lawyer-says.html |title=Biker Was Playing Peacemaker When S.U.V. Hit Him, Lawyer Says |first=Joseph|last=Goldstein|publisher=[[New York Times]] |date=October 4, 2013 |accessdate=January 1, 2014}}</ref><ref name="newsone">{{cite web|url=http://newsone.com/2734674/new-york-city-biker-attack-edwin-mieses-jr-alexian-lien/|title=Undercover NYPD Cop Present At NY Biker Attack|first=Associated|last=Press|publisher=[[Newsone]]|date=October 5, 2013 |accessdate=January 1, 2014}}</ref> Mieses later stated that he was checking on Cruz after his collision with the Range Rover and was walking back to his bike when he was hit.<ref name=Brown/>
The bikers then followed Lien for several miles. Lien's wife called 911 four times in an eight-minute time span during the drive.<ref name=innocent>{{cite news|title=Gloria Allred’s defense of ‘innocent’ injured biker|url=http://nypost.com/2013/10/04/gloria-allred-defense-of-innocent-injured-biker/|newspaper=New York Post|date=October 4, 2013}}</ref> A few minutes later, the video shows Lien stopping for a red light and a biker is seen running up and opening the driver’s side door before Lien accelerates again to escape.<ref name=assault>{{cite news|last=McKinley|first=James|title=11 Motorcyclists Are Indicted in Assault on an S.U.V. Driver|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/09/nyregion/11-motorcyclists-are-indicted-in-assault-on-an-suv-driver.html?_r=0|newspaper=New York Times|date=November 8, 2013}}</ref><ref name=incident>{{cite news|last=Berry|first=Andrew|title=New York City Motorcycle Attack: Two Arrested, More Video Surfaces In Terrifying Road Rage Incident [VIDEO] New York City Motorcycle Attack: Two Arrested, More Video Surfaces In Terrifying Road Rage Incident|url=http://www.ibtimes.com/new-york-city-motorcycle-attack-two-arrested-more-video-surfaces-terrifying-road-rage-incident-video|newspaper=International Business Times|date=October 1, 2013}}</ref> Several minutes later, the SUV came to a halt behind other vehicles at a red light. One of the bikers then dismounted his motorcycle and struck the driver's window of the Range Rover with his helmet, shattering it. Lien was then dragged from the vehicle and assaulted. Another uploaded video shows Lien lying on the ground with bikers stomping on him and beating him with their helmets.<ref name=beaten>{{cite news|last=Stuart|first=Hunter|title=New Video Shows Alexian Lien Pulled From SUV By Bikers And Beaten|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/22/new-video-alexian-lien-suv-beaten-by-bikers-nyc_n_4146694.html|newspaper=Huffington Post New York|date=2013-10-23}}</ref>
Bikers also smashed other windows of the SUV and started to pull out his wife and daughter before a bystander named Sergio Conseugra intervened, stepping in between the bikers and Lien. Conseugra testified that he held out his arms and yelled “That’s it, guys, let it go! Let it go!" He said the bikers "froze" at that point and stopped assaulting Lien.<ref>{{Cite news|title = Man Who Intervened in Manhattan Biker Assault Testifies|url = http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/22/nyregion/man-who-intervened-in-2013-biker-assault-on-west-side-highway-testifies-at-trial.html|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 2015-05-21|access-date = 2015-05-22|issn = 0362-4331|first = James C. Mckinley|last = Jr}}</ref> Conseugra says one biker, later alleged by prosecutors to be Robert Sims, attempted to pull Lien's wife from the vehicle and allegedly said "you're going to get it, too" before other bystanders yelled at him to stop and the biker let her go.<ref name="testimony" /><ref name="samaratin">{{cite news|last=Miles|first=Darla|title=Good Samaritan in SUV incident honored|url=http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=9276222|newspaper=ABC New York 7|date=October 6, 2013}}</ref><ref name="nbc" /><ref name="DailyMail">{{cite web | title =Biker gang DID try to grab tech exec's wife as they brutally beat SUV driver after chase through Manhattan, reveals hero who intervened
| url =http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2447297/Biker-gang-SUV-assault-attempted-grab-drivers-wife-too.html| date =October 6, 2013| accessdate =January 20, 2013}}</ref> Lien's wife, Rosalyn Ng, testified that he "somehow they got my door open and tried to yank me out of the car, pulling my arm and leg. I tried to kick them off and I screamed, “there’s a baby in the car,”'<ref>{{Cite web|title = Wife of banker recounts being brutalized by biker gang during attack|url = http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3088892/We-not-going-survive-Terrified-wife-banker-tearfully-recounts-brutalized-biker-gang-videotaped-attack-tried-shield-baby.html|accessdate = 2015-05-20}}</ref>
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