If he had time to get out of the way, the doctor also had time to swerve.
Are you a paparazzo who blocks cars to get pictures?
I imagine this was a very low-speed collision. Not sure it has to do with “swerving.” But I must imagine it, as I haven’t seen the video.
While pulling a policeman off his beat to arrest this guy might have been the thing to do, it really stinks that this protestor believes that the police should be spending their time on him rather than fighting other crimes. How about a better point of all this being, “protestors shouldn’t obstruct traffic”?
Not an excuse for criminal behavior, but neither should we excuse the protestor for his own idiocy. If he’s illegally blocking the traffic, then why should there be civil liabillity on the driver?