The kids are riding willingly past a cop car.

A safer thing to do is block the road with cars and kettle from behind. Then even if people flee on foot you can impound the bikes or whatever to a vastly better effect in terms of reducing public nuisance.

The officer here wasn't improving safety, he was making a larger hazard, putting himself in danger, and ended up paying for it.

They want to use their toys and they want to cause harm.

As a centrist[^1], I say fuck both sides.

[^1]: No not really

Yes and the cop could've killed these kids by popping their tires while they're riding recklessly. Rather than do actual police work that takes time and effort to remove these bikes from the streets, the cops decided to do the easiest and most dangerous thing for everyone involved. This was absolutely the worst possible way they could go about to stop people who ride like this.

Themselves.

Rolling around 2 ton cars with your dirtbike is a good way to kill only yourself. Even in this video, the guy on the heaviest one, a quad, plowed straight into the cop and only got tackled off it.

The cop knows this too. He jumped in front of him to tackle him.

I agree that you might get scared by people acting too rowdy, and that you might get your paint job scratched, but your chances of dying are way higher with a moving truck nearby than a few dirt bikes.

Like someone jumping in front of moving vehicles

What that cop was trying to do, would have caused a serious accident and injuries if he had succeeded. Cops are always the villains, harassing teenagers and brutalizing people protesting against genocide, while protecting rich pedophiles.