I agree. The amount that law enforcement in the US seem to get away with is quite staggering.

I can understand the night prison officers actions a bit better than the arresting officers, as from their perspective, everyone they have in the cells has already been deemed to be a menace of some sort and it's not their place to get into who is right and wrong. But from this account, it seems there's nothing this guy did to deserve any of the shit the arresting officers put him through.

What happened to the cyclist? Did she get arrested for staining the street with her blood? Or causing a public nuisance?