Today was not a good day for Jerit cyclists anywhere in the country. Some 50 of them, mostly teenage schoolchildren, had huffed and puffed on their bicycles on an 80kilometre ride to Georgetown this afternoon to deliver a six-point memorandum to Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng.

However, as they were waiting for Lim outside the Traders Hotel, a group of policemen, led by Jalan Patani police station chief, one Chief Inspector Jamaluddin, manhandled and tried to drag away the event’s northern region co-ordinator Choo Choon Kai, 30.