--- title: What Happens When You Try to Cut Off Obama's Motorcade description: A bicyclist was tackled to the ground by police after he tried to cross a blocked off intersection before the motorcade. canonical: https://time.com/4364330/obama-motorcade-bicycle-new-york/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-10T15:41:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:33:15.742Z og:title: What Happens When You Try to Cut Off Obama's Motorcade og:description: A bicyclist was tackled to the ground by police after he tried to cross a blocked off intersection before the motorcade. og:url: https://time.com/4364330/obama-motorcade-bicycle-new-york/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: What Happens When You Try to Cut Off Obama's Motorcade twitter:description: A bicyclist was tackled to the ground by police after he tried to cross a blocked off intersection before the motorcade. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's What Happens When You Try to Cut Off President Obama's Motorcade on a Bicycle by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Jun 10, 2016 3:41 PM UTC by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Jun 10, 2016 3:41 PM UTC A New York City bicyclist learned his lesson Thursday after he tried to ride a bicycle in front of President Barack Obama’s motorcade. Video posted by Instagram user mattpeco shows a man on a Citibike bicycle attempting to ride through an intersection that police had blocked off, when a cop grabs him and forces him to the ground. Another cop in a helmet roughly secures the man—identified as Daniel Provencio, 59, [by the New York _Daily_ _News_](http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bicyclist-arrested-rolls-obama-motorcade-article-1.2667698)—to the ground until a Secret Service agent walks over. President Obama’s motorcade rolls past shortly after, to applause. Police say Provencio was issued a summons for disorderly conduct, according to the _Daily News_. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4364330/obama-motorcade-bicycle-new-york/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4364330/obama-motorcade-bicycle-new-york/"},"headline":"Here's What Happens When You Try to Cut Off President Obama's Motorcade on a Bicycle","datePublished":"2016-06-10T15:41:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:33:15.742Z","description":"A bicyclist was tackled to the ground by police after he tried to cross a blocked off intersection before the motorcade.","url":"https://time.com/4364330/obama-motorcade-bicycle-new-york/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Barack Obama","Crime","White House","New York"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4364330/obama-motorcade-bicycle-new-york/","name":"Here's What Happens When You Try to Cut Off President Obama's Motorcade on a Bicycle"}}]}] ```