I can't watch the video here at work, but if it is the one I remember the bicyclist was clearly not steering his bike towards the officer. If anything he was steering away and the officer had to go out of his way to take him down. One big obvious lie on the charge makes me doubt everything else the officer said.
Maybe both were a-holes, but the cop was the one on video attacking, lying on official charges and doing both under color of authority.
Correct. Long was not steering his bike towards officer Pogan. Pogan said he had steered his bike into another officer...previous to Pogan's action...which cannot be seen on the video.