Even the Hells Angels are appalled by a motorcycle gang’s savage beatdown of a father on the West Side Highway — saying the heartless brutes crossed a line when they messed with a family.
“That kind of behavior is unacceptable — and with a kid in the car, nonetheless! I have a 3-year-old niece,” said one biker who was hanging out at the Hells Angels’ East Village headquarters Thursday.
He slammed the thugs for taking the law into their own hands by chasing down and beating Internet executive Alexian Lien, 33, on Sunday after a fender bender on the highway.
“You get the name and license plate and let the cops deal with it. But violence? I don’t condone that,” the biker said.
“If that had been my kid and I was the one driving . . .” he said before stopping himself.
“It’s always a few people who give us all a bad name.”
And giving the Hells Angels a bad name is quite a feat, since the menacing motorcycle club has long been synonymous with high-octane crime and violence.
The motorcycle gangsters earned their bloodthirsty reputation in 1969, when a Hells Angels member stabbed a man to death during a Rolling Stones concert at the Altamont Speedway in California.
The violence didn’t stop in the ’60s.
In 2000, a senior member of the gang allegedly dragged a woman in into a car in Australia and held her hostage, using her as a sex slave for five days with the help of several others.
In New York City, 52-year-old Roberta Shalaby was beaten into a coma allegedly by Hells Angels members after she tried to push her way into the gang’s East Village headquarters in 2007.
A few years later, members of the same gang allegedly shot and killed a fellow Hells Angel in a cemetery in San Jose, Calif.
On Sunday, Lien became the target of a different pack of bikers after accidently bumping one of their bikes in his Range Rover.
The accident prompted a terrifying four-mile chase that ended with the motor-psychos smashing the window of the SUV and badly beating Lien as his wife and 2-year-old child watched.
Lien was admitted to St. Luke’s Hospital and was released the same day.