"I ride tonight in Critical Mass not just to promote alternative modes of transportation, but more so because it is my constitutional right to participate and assemble in this manner. To criminalize the behavior of individuals assembling in groups over 50 is arbitrary and unconstitutional, and I vow to fight the NYPD's published rules, and to introduce a bill that would protect our right to assemble.

"We, as New Yorkers, need to know that today and everyday, the constitution guarantees that 'these streets are our streets!' and we will risk arrest if necessary to ensure in the future that the rights of others are not trampled on."