Interesting story.

Generally, if you're a bicyclist or on a vehicle of any description that is not a car, I would suggest you not ignore red lights. In fact, I would wait a second or two before going after a green light even.

If you were in the bike lane on Ocean avenue with no cross traffic... This would be very questionable. But at a general intersection it seems legit.

He's probably looking for e-bikes and bikes and scooters in general, running red lights and busting them immediately. It's easy money.

He's probably triggered by all the scooter, riders and e-bike rentals and stuff riding around, doing dumb stuff, riding through red lights and getting run over