But some of it's not the reporters' fault. That official using the term "illegal motorcycles" didn't help. Neither having people commit crimes while riding them nor the bikes not being properly registered makes them "illegal motorcycles." It looked like those were just normal scooters that were properly homologated for legal sale in the US as street-legal vehicles. It's not like they were "grey market" imports that aren't certified for US sale (which would actually make them "illegal motorcycles"). Idiotic and deliberately inflammatory use of language...

Destroying fuel-efficient vehicles that reduce road and parking congestion instead of figuring out how to get them into the hands of people who need them is also pants-on-head stupid.