Anyone know why he did this? (police brutality)

Rroff said:
I don't see anywhere in the video where he makes any attempt to signal the guy to stop - I've never seen a policeman try to get a cyclist to stop without making distinct hand signals.
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Perhaps the copper is telling lies.
He picked out his target and then made that up.
 
Rroff said:
He sped up to get out the way of the cyclist it was obviously one of those situations where neither quite knew quite what the other was doing. At the moment of impact the officer put out his hands to protect himself. Its very clear if you watch the video with an open unbias mind.

The cyclist is the one who should if any be done for assault even in the US they should give way to pedestrians instead he tried to rush on through even tho the officer had been moving towards the pavement for several seconds - long enough for them to slow down and let him get out the way.
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lol are you joking?!

You can clearly see the officer follows the cyclists path and then as the cyclist approaches rather than stepping back, the officer quickly takes a couple more steps forward so he can catch the cyclist.

Cops an ass.
 
The copper doesn't say anything to him until he's on the ground. I can't believe anyone can be seriously thinking that was an accident. The copper looks right at the guy, moves over to where he's heading and then takes him out.
 
Castiel said:
Now was the cyclist a known criminal or wanted on a warrant of some mind, who can tell so while I am not dating that the Officer was not justified in his actions, those action were clearly not accidental as you contend.
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Mr.Fantastic said:
Sorry Rroff but you are wrong on this one, the cop knew what he was going todo he even took big steps to move into the cyclists path then stuck out his shoulder to knock the block off his bike.
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digipeep said:
Nothing sort of an assault that, cop should lose his job.
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Visual impairment guyz?
 
There's no doubt in my mind the cop did that on purpose. He looks directly at him from about 5m away, intentionally speeds up to meet him - then uses his elbow and body weight to maximise the impact. If you can't see that from the video - we must be looking at a different link...... He didn't slow down. Didn't just put his hands up (like 99% of people would do when an unexpected object is coming towards them) and most importantly - didn't move out of the way.

What if the guy on the bike had landed just slightly further in, and cracked the side of his head on the kerb ? He would probably have ended up with a fractured skull. A side impact like that (even if it is from some jumped up cop who had only been in the force 11 days) is very dangerous on a bike.

And I fail to see how the cop managed to get off with no jail time or conviction.

*edit* just read the above. So even though it was on purpose - it's still a ridiculous method to stop a cyclist and I fail to see what made him think he could do that. All he did was give him a hand gesture - ad most of the other cyclist don't have lights also.
 
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That was seriously bad, the guy could have been pretty injured, if not seriously injured had something gone wrong, who knows what will happen when you decide to ram a guy off of a bike :eek:
 
dmpoole said:
Perhaps the copper is telling lies.
He picked out his target and then made that up.
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but it would still be deliberate and not an accident though. if i've read this right rolf is trying to say it could be an accident even though everyone involved said it wasn't. the reason could be a lie but it was still something the office deliberately did.
 
Tute said:
Did the cop not offer any reason as to why he did it?
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Yes, several:

He was briefed that they were known trouble makers amongst the cyclists.
The guy on the bike was one of these troublemakers.
He was told to take them out, whatever it takes.
The guy on the bike didn't have lights.
He told him to stop.
The cyclist didn't and flicked the finger at the cop.
The cop was warned they would be lots of videos of the event so using his baton or MACE was not appropriate.
So he shoulder charged the guy off his bike.

That is that facts as per the court case. Whether the cop is lying or not is unkown and appears believed to be the case by some people on ocuk who think it was a genuine accident and the cop made up the above to get off with the charge :rolleyes:
 
Nix said:
Do be quiet. I've watched that back about six times now and it's clear as anything that the police officer intended to knock the cyclist off. He saw him approaching and was beginning to place himself to do just that, there is not indication of the officer ever intending to simply reach the pavement. To say otherwise is just complete rubbish.

In fact, if you watch the video from the start, you can quite clearly see the officers looking for someone. I'd wager a guess that the officer thought the cyclist was the person they were looking for.

Still, stupid thing to do.
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I'd agree with that. There was at least a second or two where the cyclist had already started turning (a lot) before the policeman started running. He must be very slow in the head if it took him that long to decide to run across, more so to not just stand still and let it pass slightly earlier...

There is very little doubt in my mind that the police officer didn't do it on purpose, backed up by the fact he didn't fall over when doing it (he had enough time to brace himself and position himself to roll the bike round but not stop running?) and didn't hurt himself...

I do wonder if the cyclist said something to anger the policeman but then he wouldn't have just been left to leave after...

Rroff said:
Its painfully obvious some people are just so blinkered by hatred for "authority".
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TBH it's more of a blinkered hatred of cyclists from the look of it...
 
Rroff said:
I can't believe people think the officer intentionally and pre-meditatedly knocked the guy off... watch the officer on the right... they clearly decide to move to the pavement and then due to mis-judgement on the part of the officer and cyclist result in an unfortunate collision. There is no assault.

I can see how it might look like assault if you don't watch the officer on the right too.
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I can believe the first half, however I'd maybe suggest the cyclist not slowing down for his "authority" maybe went to the guys head, so he decided to shove him off...

It wouldn't be the first time that sort of things happened because some high and mightly pedestrian got the hump with a cyclist for no reason (yeah saw this happening to a random cyclist on a cycle track, and that bloke wasn't a policeman...)
 
Jokester said:
The copper doesn't say anything to him until he's on the ground. I can't believe anyone can be seriously thinking that was an accident. The copper looks right at the guy, moves over to where he's heading and then takes him out.
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bam he literally just takes him out and munches him to the curb. upon watching it a few more times i think he actually elbow checks the dude to the face to take him out even harder
 
I find it hard to believe that anyone is blinkered enough to argue this was simply an accident, it's as good a shoulder barge you're gonna see on a fast moving cyclist and timed to perfection, you don't knock someone off a bike like that by accident.

The cyclist would probably be in jail now for assault and other falsified claims if it wasn't for this footage having been filmed/released by a witness at the scene and bringing the policemans statement into disrepute.
 
Hmm... hard to tell what happened there. Having watched a few times, I'm inclined to say that it looks deliberate. I can, however, see how that could have happened by accident (although it shows very bad judgement from the cop it that was the case).

As for the cyclist... well, even if the cop hadn't run, that would have been closer than I would like to be to a pedestrian.

With regards to traffic law... depending on the quality of the guy's brakes, by the time he realised the cop was going to cross in front of him, it might not have been possible to stop in time.
 
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