I guess your tag line means nothing to you. While I don’t defend CM, I do defend the right to protest regardless of standing.
What can I say? Sometimes you question authority, and it turns out they are right.
In any case I would not preclude the possibility that there was no intent on the officer’s part. He could have been trying to walk to the curb and was dodging left at the same time the cyclist was also dodging left. At that point, the officer could either accelerate to the left (which would lead him to the safety of the curb), or make a blind leap to the right, which could put him in the path of another bicycle, for all he knew. Well, it turns out the bicycle also increased his turn in the same direction, so the only thing for the officer to do at the end of it all is to brace for impact.
It all looks pretty funny when it’s on a sit-com, but less funny when it is on the street. But this sort of thing happens every day.
i think there is a difference.