[Rick Lee]

I'd not have been stopped by any car with no lights and no sign of containing a cop. I don't turn my bike off when there are cars around me, so I am ready to escape at the drop of a hat. If, as I was pulling away, I managed to hear him ID himself, I'd probably still have hightailed it out of there, ridden straight to a cop shop and reported someone impersonating an officer. This rider would probably have been justified in drawing on the cop (except in MD, where only cops and criminals can carry) and the cop was in NO WAY justified in drawing on the rider. What threat to the officer's safety did this rider pose? Was this rider brandishing a gun? This officer will have a short career. If this lawsuit doesn't go anywhere, he'll still likely end up dead or wounded when he pulls this sheet on the wrong guy.

BTW, part of the Monical Lewinsky case hinged on whether Linda Tripp would be prosecuted for recording their phone calls, which I believe were done across the MD-DC line. I have a buddy who's a MD statie and need to ask him about this.

Some of those guys are real hotheads. One of them once told me they carry screwdrivers in their boots in case they have to shoot an unarmed person, they can stick the screwdriver in their hand. Yes, I heard that from a MD statie. He didn't say he did it, but he knew about it.