Palisades bike rage driver gets five years

Superior Court Judge Scott T. Millington expressed doubts about Dr. Christopher Thompson's remorse for stopping short and injuring two cyclists on Mandeville Canyon Road. Millington also claimed the five-year sentence for assault with a deadly weapon and other charges wasn't juiced up by political rhetoric from riders, some of whom were in court — but then he called the case a wake-up call about tensions between cyclists and motorists on L.A. streets. Millington volunteered from the bench that "government must become aware of the dangerous conditions existing on our city streets and the threat of injury to cyclists."