Seattle officials have overturned a decades-old mandatory law for bicycle riders to wear helmets after a study showed there was discriminatory enforcement of the rule against people of color and homeless people and found that black cyclists were four times as likely to be stopped as white cyclists. The King County Board of Health, made up of elected officials and medical experts from cities across the county, voiced its support on Thursday for the voluntary use of helmets, passing a resolution encouraging riders to don the protective gear, the reported. Seattle is the largest city in the country to enforce a bike helmet requirement, the reported, and is in King County which has made racial justice reform a priority and declared racism a public health crisis in 2020.
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