First up, this happened a year ago.
Second, the officer didn't 'ditch' his bike, he laid it down. Unfortunately, it then flipped. In attempting to avoid the child, the officer suffered a broken leg and clavicle.
Injured, the officer tried to assist the girl anyway.
The father, and the 18 year old cousin that was with the girl when she ran out in the road attacked the officer. Kicking him in the head and other forms of assault.
The officer was entirely justified in defending himself. You kick someone with a broken leg and shoulder in the head for an accident that wasn't even that person's fault, you are an asshole. The officer had every reason to expect:
"1. When resisting any attempt to murder any person, or to commit a felony, or to do some great bodily injury upon any person; or,
2. When committed in defense of habitation, property, or person, against one who manifestly intends or endeavors, by violence or surprise, to commit a felony, or against one who manifestly intends and endeavors, in a violent, riotous or tumultuous manner, to enter the habitation of another for the purpose of offering violence to any person therein; or,
3. When committed in the lawful defense of such person, or of a wife or husband, parent, child, master, mistress, or servant of such person, when there is reasonable ground to apprehend a design to commit a felony or to do some great bodily injury, and imminent danger of such design being accomplished; but such person, or the person in whose behalf the defense was made, if he was the assailant or engaged in mutual combat, must really and in good faith have endeavored to decline any further struggle before the homicide was committed; or,
4. When necessarily committed in attempting, by lawful ways and means, to apprehend any person for any felony committed, or in lawfully suppressing any riot, or in lawfully keeping and preserving the peace. "
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