Videos have been known to lie, and I guess the things the bike jester were saying like “out of my way, pig” didn’t make it to the tape...
Even if he said that to the cop, that doesn’t warrant, nor is it legal, for the cop to hurl him off his bike to the curb like that.
The bicyclist could easily have been killed by smashing his head to the pavement like that.
And then he LIES about it, inventing a whole bunch of lies to put the cyclist in jail for 26 hours!
In a just world that cop would spend the next ten years in jail for assault and battery.
Ed
There are a number of US Circuit Court of Opinions that state calling a cop a pig is protected speech and not justification to arrest someone. Cops are supposed to have thick skins. This cop assaulted the bicyclist and blatantly lied in his report.