Steady On... Cyclist sues New York Police over body slam video incident

Imagine hypothetically he was cycling dangerously (the video doesn't prove that either way), It's possible that he was before, and for example another cop had tried to stop him, and had radioed the other cop to stop him.

Now I don't know US law, but wouldn't the cop have the right to stop him, using force if needed? After all they can run a car off the road in a car chase.

Of course we don't know any of the other facts in this case. If he hadn't done anything wrong it's clearly wrong, and it looks like the courts thought so too.

You don't know any other facts in the case, because you haven't looked, or even read the thread particularly carefully - the video is old news, the civil case is new. Short version: your hypothetical situation is not what happened.

But I agree with Clive when he said that thing about the policeman being right and needing to prosecute the cyclist.