Clocking someone off metal street furniture while they hang from your speeding car? Death could be a factor. Bryant knew it, but he didn't care. He could have stopped so Sheppard could get off. Any reasonable person would have. Lawyers can spin this a hundred ways, but the truth is always simpler.

..."accidentally bumped into him"? Bryant floored it, and carried Sheppard on his hood and his bicycle dragging beneath, several metres down Bloor street. Interesting theory...

Shock, horror! This guy was The Devil! He swore at an old lady! Give me a break, how irrelevant. Morbidly funny that Bryant's enablers would dig this deep for "dirt" and undeniable "proof" that this man was at fault for his own death. I'd like a trial by jury please, not this ridiculous twaddle.

... I read the news for a living. And it's depressing what's wrong with this society. Some people are glad Darcy Sheppard is dead. Well, I'm not interested in the spin, the smear, nor the lame excuses of The Crown, who should have brought more severe charges. I think for myself by reading between the lines. On video Sheppard rode right past Bryant's car, parked in front and had his back to him. So the two may have exchanged harsh words. So it's alright to run this cyclist down from behind and drive off with him hanging from the car? Who is the aggressor? Who assaulted who? Who ultimately should have feared for his life? In all of the brief footage, I have yet to see Sheppard act drunken, or aggress physically towards Bryant. It didn't look like he even had the time. If Bryant was scared, it was because he just ran over a guy who was rightfully upset and well enough to kick his ass. A typical cowardly rich boy, afraid of confrontation with someone who doesn't know or care who he is. He should have just stopped.

... it wasn't Driving Miss Daisey. Bryant ran that man down blatantly. The "I stalled twice, ran him over for a bit, and then got so scared story" doesn't fly with me. Sorry. My wild conclusions make more sense. In lieu of an actual transparent trial by jury, I'll go with that...

You know it, sister! A man is dead, eyewitnesses describe the chaos of a car driving the wrong way down Bloor, slamming a man on its side off postboxes and lamp posts, and The Cops see no need to breathilze the driver? Oh yeah, I almost forgot, the driver is former AG, former MPP, Golden Boy Michael Bryant! Did you see him stewing in the back of the police cruiser after the horrific bludgeoning? He looked totally wired, to boot! Yet he told his pals, oops I meant The Cops, that he hadn't been drinking, and somewhat magically/unethically, his word alone was good enough for them. But I ask myself this. I'm a well-trained lawyer. Heck, I'm an ex-Attorney General, I know the law. If I'd been drinking when this "accident" occurred, that wouldn't look good. A man is dead after all. Well, I haven't been drinking and I want an official record that I haven't. I have no problem volunteering for a breathalyzer test, as it will strengthen my defense of "I was so scared" in court. Don't you think? He was drinking no doubt, question is how much did he swallow? Or maybe he prefers something stronger? Well, we'll never know. Just like Darcy Sheppard will never get justice. People even think it's justice that he is dead. Can you believe it? Because The Spin-doctors have people thinking he was nothing more than a dirty, drunken, foul-mouthed courier with a death wish. He had family and friends. He had children... Yet everyone is rushing to hold Michael Bryant's hand. That lying, arrogent, cowardly murderer...

Yah, The Crown should grow a pair, and charge him with actual murder. The premeditated kind. The kind they charge everyone else with when they knowingly, maliciously drag someone to their deaths. And the 'chocolate-bar thief charged with murder' analogy is the poorest, most tasteless I've read in a while. Michael Bryant didn't steal Darcy Sheppard's bicycle light. He actually did kill him. And brutally, so.

... this killer knew he had the guy he had just run-down on his car, and proceeded to drive the wrong way into the opposite lane in order to clock Mr. Sheppard against any available street furniture, before dumping him in the street for the second time and running him over, for the second time. I don't call it dangerous driving either. I call it murder.
(And FYI, I'm a girl on a bicycle and have been in the odd road-rage/bike-rage altercation without 'fearing for my life'. I''ve even been trailed and taunted by a motorist. Please. Be honest with yourself. If all Torontonians were nervous, spineless, murderous wrecks like Michael Bryant, the streets of this city would be littered with bodies daily.)

... apparently a lot of people think this man deserved to die beneath the wheels of some enraged motorist. Didn't you hear The Crown, it's Darcy Sheppard's fault, Darcy Sheppard is dead. How can this be? It's clear as day that Bryant started the whole thing by incredulously mowing this cyclist down like he was a piece of garbage littering the street. And people wonder why he had a bad attitude towards motorists? You're not all saints, case in point. (Since Sheppard's death is okay by all, do I now have to get a bumper sticker for my bike that reads, "I am not expendable courier slime, please don't kill me?")

So Mr Sheppard chose to accost/attack Mr. Bryant by throwing his body on the hood of his car, backwards? Interesting theory...