>>1752487Irrelevant to the question of riding, but running over small animals is a fact of life unless you ride exclusively in a velodrome. Some of them are suicidal.
Someone else can find the picture of the twink on a brakeless fixie who ran over a free range toddler on knifecrime island. Also pretty sure that guy who killed a middle aged lady in midtown was riding brakeless. Entirely possible these were coincidental and the brakes had nothing to do with it, but you don't deserve the benefit of the doubt if you decide to ride brakeless.