The guy who got shoved is apparently a well known agitator who has been turning up at demonstrations and taunting the police for years.
He was just lucky up till now. I don’t think the cop actually meant to knock him over this time, either (although I do think that he should have stopped immediately when he saw blood come out of the man’s ears). But the guy surely should have known that he was doing something stupid and one of these days it was going to catch up with him...or probably that’s exactly what he wanted.
Sorry but the bleeding from the ear occurred way too quickly to be real. He hit the back of his head when he landed. Blood doesn’t just explode out of your ear when that happens. You can also see what looks like duct tape underneath his face mask. I smell a bad acting job. Maybe he got the idea from Mr. Gower slapping George Bailey in the ear. The blood looks fake too.
And from what I’ve read, he had an arrest record that would make any thug proud.
Once again, the guy who was clearing the area when OldDudeFlopper tried to impede them, did stop, bend down, attempt to help. His superior walking behind him picked the officer up by the “Police” label on his vest and pushed him to keep moving. The superior officer then can be seen calling for assistance as he stood by OldDudeFlopper. The superior officer also directed the police to intercept a young guy who was running up to OldDudeFlopper.