Agreed that last sentence wasn&#x27;t helpful, but neither are the downvotes for him explaining <i>exactly</i> what the situation likely was.<p>Maybe the OP is a great cyclist.  Maybe he&#x27;s not.  It&#x27;s immaterial.<p>What is material is trying to provide some context into <i>why</i> that happened, if it did.  Lets just say as a fellow Chicago resident I also immediately had the same suspicions that you were responding to.<p>I used to commute daily as a cyclist, until I moved here.  I sold my bike, as I don&#x27;t want to be associated with these people whatsoever.  They are the most entitled, aggressive, and actively dangerous group of commuters I&#x27;ve witnessed.  I&#x27;ve lived in Amsterdam.  This is not how bikers should behave.<p>So to me, it was simply providing context to those who don&#x27;t live here for stories that don&#x27;t make any logical sense.  Cyclists here get absolutely zero benefit of the doubt from me, and I imagine that attitude can get into a cop on a bad day as well.  Certainly doesn&#x27;t <i>justify</i> it, but it <i>explains</i> it.