There is a difference between blowing through a light, and slowing down, making sure it is clear, and then going through. Ticketing a cyclist for the former is a good thing, ticketing for the latter is ridiculous in a city where everybody--EVERYBODY--jaywalks and nobody ever gets a ticket for it.

Now, I don't know what this guy did, so I can't take a side for or against him. But I--carefully--go through red lights and I am not sorry for it, and it is not dangerous. I also jaywalk. Carefully.