Watch the video link at Smoking Gun, especially the slow motion. The cop watches dozens go by and then stares the one guy down, starts walking towards the curb as he is staring. The guy on the bicycle tries to avoid him but the cop body checks him for no reason.
If there had been no one with a camera, the cop would just be another thug with a badge still on the force, assaulting people and arresting them and putting them in jail simply because he could.
But don’t worry, this cop will end up on some small north eastern town’s police force within a couple of months.
The cop provided a reason -- he was attempting to stop him for his illegal activities, and in the process it got a bit rough.
So police pull over all speeders in a pack when they are exceeding the speed limit? Or do they pick one out of the herd?
Has any judge ever dismissed a speeding ticket on the defense “others were doing it too”?
I have no opinion either way. But I wonder if the cop saw something behind the “cameraman” that we didn’t see. We do see the cop watch the bicyclist come at him. We can’t see what the cop was watching.