A few things to point out here:
1 - Based on the pictures they used and they bikes they crushed, almost NONE were "dirt bikes".
In this picture almost every single bike there is a street legal scooter or small motorcycle. They all look to be Chinese knockoffs, I don't see a single one that is a "name brand" model, except what might be a Honda Ruckus in the front there.
Bikes like that get 80 to 100 mpg and afford cheap transportation for city folks who cannot afford the insane costs of owning a car in NYC
2 - 92 scooters being crushed in a city of 8 million people, is not anything, other than government bloviating.
3 - NOTHING says freedom like confiscating the property of citizens and then destroying it in a public Marxist media organ press release circle jerk.
4 - Authoritarian pooh bahs love these displays of destruction of what was once the citizen's property. They figure it shows the Mundanes who's the boss, let's them puff and preen in front of the crowd as they crush a pile of guns or scooters or books or booze or "undesirable" people.
They do provide a valuable metric for knowing what the regime you find yourself living under approves of though.
Ask yourself what the reaction would have been if that was a bulldozer crushing a bunch of "pride" flags, CDs of queeer porn and college textbooks on queeer theory?
5 - Every time I see one of these brass hats leading one of these dog and pony shows, I can't help but think of this guy:
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