Bicyclist says cop opened door in her path, files lawsuit

Heard this on the news last night, news item is here: http://bit.ly/T4rkHM. Will be interesting to see how it plays out.

Tags: city, dooring, police

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Permalink Reply by Juan Primo on November 26, 2012 at 10:08am

With all due respect, Mike Keating is an attorney who is getting paid to sue the City on this case. He also comes to this forum to market his business.

Nothing wrong with any of that, but I don't understand all the high fives. No doubt he will win a large settlement from the tax payers of the City of Chicago, and he will get one quarter to one third of that money for doing his business.

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Permalink Reply by blair_ on November 26, 2012 at 10:51am

I gave Mike a "high five" because of my experience with the cops in this city. They park in bike lanes, they ride bikes on sidewalks, refuse to ticket others parked in bike lanes and cut cyclists off constantly. What do you do in situations like this? Call the cops on another cop?

So when a lawsuit like this is filed, I feel like some justice will be served (hopefully). As one of Chicago's finest told me last week - "We are the police. We trump everything. Always."

Also, I think it's pretty petty to play grammar police instead of focusing on the real issue.