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@WillMelling
Unfortunately, and I'm not saying you are doing this, but cycle training is often portrayed on here as nothing more than a dogma. Ed is well intentioned, and has the right idea, but, as many of us have pointed out to him before, he doesn't know when to shut up. He's not the only one, and this is not a personal dig at Ed, who I think is often unfairly maligned.
It's not a tenet of cycle training that every fucking incident has to be responded to with an explanation of what the rider could have done better. Cycle training does not exclude the possibility that people are just people and people sometimes get it wrong or that some police officers are just jumped-up little wankers who like to throw their weight around.