Syracuse, NY -- An Onondaga County prosecutor Monday afternoon offered a Syracuse man two ways to resolve his arrest that was caught on video and led to a resisting arrest charge:

If Shaolin Moore, 23, apologizes for what prosecutors say was an intentional attempt to divide the community, prosecutors would recommend he spend three years on probation. If there’s no apology, the offer would be the maximum punishment under law of 364 days in jail.

There’s no indication Moore has any intention of taking either plea offer.

After court, Moore’s lawyer, Jesse Ryder, blasted Syracuse police for their decision earlier Monday to clear Officers Christopher Buske and Leonard Brown of excessive force in Moore’s May 31 arrest on the city’s Near West Side.

The confrontation, which began as a loud-music traffic stop, was partially captured on video by Moore’s passenger, igniting a firestorm of controversy.

That drew the attention of Ryder, who has a history of defending clients who are accusing the department of excessive force.

Monday afternoon, Ryder said he wasn’t surprised that Police Chief Kenton Buckner and Mayor Ben Walsh had defended the officers for their decision to use force to pull Moore from the vehicle.

Shaolin Moore (left) and his lawyer, Jesse Ryder, outside court.

“They sent a chilling message: You do not have 4th Amendment rights in the city of Syracuse,” Ryder contended, referring to the Constitutional protection against unreasonable search and seizure.

“We were really hoping the chief and the mayor would use this opportunity to heal the community,” Ryder said. “They obviously have not heard the cries of this community.”

But Ryder said he and other civil rights lawyers have vowed to continue suing the city every time a perceived unlawful use of force arises. He argued that the city is facing so many at this point that they have no choice but to keep denying wrongdoing.

Buckner spent a half-hour Monday morning presenting the department’s argument for clearing the officers of wrongdoing. He spent another half-hour answering questions from the media about the incident and the policy.

At its heart, the chief said that Moore had disobeyed a lawful order to leave the vehicle and escalated the situation by continual refusals and physical resistance.

But Ryder said it was simply unreasonable to pull someone over for loud music, physically pull him from a vehicle using force, put him in jail and prosecute him.

He asked a reporter to imagine being the target of such an arrest for playing music too loudly with car windows open.

But experts contacted by Syracuse.com | The Post-Standard agreed with the police chief’s assessment: a driver is obligated to leave a vehicle, if ordered to do so, during a traffic stop.

In court Monday, Chief Assistant District Attorney Alison Fineberg turned over a packet of information to Ryder, including the department’s use-of-force report into the incident, the arrest report and video of the officers’ body-worn cameras.

Moore, who remains free, isn’t due back to court until September for legal arguments. Ryder said the case is clearly headed toward trial at this point.

It may be the first trial of this sort since a team of lawyers, including Ryder, defended activist Maurice Crawley on charges that he harassed Syracuse police officer Vallon Smith before Smith acted excessively in retaliation. That incident was also caught on video. Crawley was eventually found guilty of harassment, a non-criminal violation.

Like in this case, the goal in Crawley’s case was to sue the city in federal court over civil rights violations.

After court Monday, Ryder also tried to clear up the mystery into why Yamil Osorio, the passenger who shot the viral video in Moore’s arrest, was later taken into custody on a parole violation.

Osorio, who was paroled on a drug conviction, was apparently taken into custody for being involved in a police interaction (Moore’s arrest) without reporting it to his parole officer, Ryder said. There was also apparently a search of Osorio’s residence, in which marijuana was found, Ryder added, but Osorio denied the marijuana was his.

Even though Osorio’s alleged misdeeds aren’t crimes, they are potential parole violations. Ryder, who is not representing Osorio, said he did not have more information about that case.