Aldercreature Sues Cops

What a joke:

• Ald. Sharon Dixon (24th) is suing three Chicago police officers she says falsely accused her of driving drunk on Jan. 20, 2009 — the day of President Obama’s inauguration.

  Dixon says she had a couple of glasses of wine at a friend’s house in Evanston and was driving home when she was cut off by a police car on Sheridan Road where officers were trying to control traffic near the scene of a fatal Rogers Park fire.

  Dixon says she attempted to explain that the police roadblock was confusing and dangerous — but the officers became angry and agitated.

Yeah, we usually get that way when we stop people driving over hoses, endangering police lives and firefighters ability to save lives. Here's a clue dumbass - if you see blue lights, stop. If you see hoses on the street, stop. If you see fire equipment blocking the street, stop.

• “When they resisted my input, were indignant over my suggestions and disrespectful of my personhood, I stood up to them,” said Dixon at a Wednesday news conference announcing the suit. “I asked them for their badge numbers ... that, asking them for their badge numbers, is what triggered my arrest.”

  Police claimed Dixon smelled like alcohol and failed sobriety tests after arguing for 30 minutes.

Her input? From a drunk who disregarded state law and common Illinois Rules of the Road concerning emergency vehicles? And it seems like it was your drunken behavior that triggered the arrest, not the silly demand for star numbers.

• She was arrested, refused a Breathalyzer test, and had her license suspended

If she had nothing to hide....isn't that the reasoning politicians use on us all the time?

• Dixon said she spent seven hours cuffed to a police station wall — and argued that the fact she could endure the lengthy detention without a washroom break was proof she was not drunk.

Not that we're bragging, but we used to be able to go for twice that without breaking a sweat. Lack of urinary function proves nothing.

• Dixon also contends “police forced me to wait until the press had arrived and then made me walk out of the front door.”

  In February of last year a judge found there had been no probable cause to arrest Dixon for DUI — and the charge was later dropped. Dixon did, however, plead guilty to obstruction of traffic and paid a $200 fine.

Well, it's not like there are any dishonest judges in Cook County, right? The obstruction charge alone could have been interpreted as Probably Cause in any other court in the nation.

What an idiot.