Just looked at it again. From the moment the officer started moving he never stopped and never stopped looking up-street. He takes two oversized steps just as the biker enters the frame. The biker was in the gap 20-30 inches from the curb when the police officer took him off the bike. The cop had made his mind up before the biker ever enters the picture. We can’t see behind the camera at whatever the cop sees a few seconds before the biker enters but this was no instantaneous reaction to the biker leaning toward the cop. Not only could he have killed the guy but he could have hurt pedestrians along the street with that 20mph bicycle and 165lb hippy body. Bad, bad judgement.
Don’t really care much about the bikers as annoying lawbreakers but could throw down some spike strips or something. That would slow them down. Hell, they could just put some anti-bicycle technology on the streets to keep them off all together.
And what was the officer looking at? Can you prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he was looking at the cyclist? No, of course not.
According to your previous post Long was moving to the right of a 4 ft square grate now you say that he was 20-30 inches from the curb. Which is it?