>>If they decide to do something about it, how are they to stop a bicyclist who refuses to stop?<
Please watch the video again, and tell me where the officer tries in any way to communicate to the bicyclist to “stop.”
Did he wave his hands? Did he yell? Did he utter a single word or send any signal whatsoever that could be construed as a signal to “stop”?
No. He went over and violently pushed the bicyclist onto the sidewalk and could have caused severe bodily injury to the cyclist or someone in the crowd.
You should really stop trying to defend the indefensible.
I was speaking in more general terms about devising an effective police counter-measure to this particular form of disruptive protest.
As for requesting the bicyclist to stop, that was what that red light on the pole was for at the intersection he just blew through. I won’t pretend the police officer was a saint if you don’t pretend the bicyclist was just out for a Sunday ride.