I understand that the officer was wrong, but so was the man on the motorcycle. why didn’t he just pull over? responsibility falls on both parties, and suing the police department only makes the lives of taxpayers harder. because a good man wasn’t good enough to just pull over.

Well said !

Too bad that “great guy” didn’t have enough sense and/or respect for those around him to just pull over. Had he crashed immediately upon hearing the siren or just moments afterward, would there still be a lawsuit? Probably. Lack of personal responsibility… Makes me sick.

I completely agree – contributory negligence is how I see it. The officer should have stopped his pursuit, but the guy should have pulled over. Makes one wonder why he didn’t???

Its all about the benjamins isn’t it! This law suit is a joke!!!!!! Why didn’t he stop? If he had he would be alive! This is the way of the world try your best to make someone else responsible. Ask for 40 million maybe get 10 million and your rich to make up for it. Hey why not donate any money won in a suit to motorcycle safety education. Ya think it’ll happen?

If he had survived or not been pulled over…he probably would have ended up plastered on the backside of a vehicle or on a barrier eventually. A**holes on those stupid crotch rockets casue way too many problems and here is a fine example. They can speed all they want with no fear of being pulled over due to a “no pursuit” rule for police because pursuing them is deemed too dangerous. One officer gets fed up with that s**t and decides to stop it. The guy could have pulled over. He didnt. He died. Oh well. Let it be a lesson to others; and the parents. TEACH YOUR KIDS.

There is a great guy with the same name that shows a resisting arrest/interfering arrest and disorderly condust in April of 2010. 2 months before this chase. Is it the same guy? I am sorry for the family’s loss but it sounds like a big portion of the blame falls upon the choices he made.

It’ s a good thing that he didn’t kill someone else too. Any “great guy” that I know would have pulled over immediately. It’s never an option to run from the police!

street bikes should be illegal and I hop esomeone from this guys selfish a$$ family reads this. What if the cop died during the pursuit? Would it be ok for his family to sue your family? Money Grubbing A$$ holes!

Street bikes should not be legal. Why are they still? I dont get it.

Not that this guiy deserved to die….but he shoulda pulled over. Im sure the outcome would have been way better than death.

But Im sure that if someone from his family reads this they will make some backhanded comment to excuse themselves of their pathetic greediness.

Im sure they know good and D@mn well that if he had driving a vehicle and got stuck by someone driving a bike and he was killed, theyd be suing that guy too.

All this shows is that you didnt value his life that much….because your doing eveything in your power to benefit from his death. HE made a mistake that cost him his life….get over it! Teach you kids…and grandkids not to drive these death traps.

Its all on him. If he had a beef, then stop, do what the officer says. Then if there’s an issue, then call a lawyer.

Did the family give an explanation on why he didn’t just pull over when he saw the police behind him instead of trying to out run the police? I know a lot of nice guys that have had the police behind them at some point or another because they had a traffic violation and none of them tried to out run the police, they are also all still alive.

another one trying to the milk the system…hope they will not win a cent…

“Attention all cars! When confronting a suspect just back off because he might sue you for doing his job as an officer of the law! So just let the rapists rape, the robbers rob, and so on…”

I have no sympathy for this moron! His dying in the accident did us all a favor. No tax money wasted on prosecuting him and no more of his genetically defective seed being spread to produce more criminal idiots like him. Now, we just have to deal with his equally stupid family filing a frivolous law suit that just implies that criminals are not responsible for getting hurt or killed while acting like stupid irresponsible idiots while committing crimes. But, forgot: America is now the land of blaming others for problems you cause.

I understand the story… and i understand the hurt of the lost.. i agree with other coments on here but .. but what i dont understand why sue? its not going to bring the loved one back and there is no justice that is needed be brought due to the guy shoulld of pulled over in the first place instead of running.. that make him guilty

OK. Lets clarify the most misunderstood fact here. It is illegal to run from the police. It is NOT illegal for the police to chase motorcycles. It is merely a violation of department policy/GO’s. It is perfectly legal for the police to chase anyone who runs from them. At the most, the officer should be punished administratively and/or possibly terminated. This idiot is the only person to blame for his death. Let’s be serious, people.

Yes his death was preventable…if had pulled over.

cops are like politicans over paid , too much power,

I sure wish I was riding with him that day because he would still be alive and just pulled over…..Having a bike is not just having a bike, its a brotherhood and we look out for our own. Bad judgement ruins lives R.I.P Brother he f**ked up and paid the price……”Burn Rubber not your soul”

MY HEART GOES OUT TO THIS FAMILY HE WAS A GREAT GUY ALONG MWITH A GREAT COACH AT MY KIDS SCHOOKL ALL THE NEGATIVE THINGS PEOLPLE ARE SAYING JUST DONT MAKE NO SENSE REGARDLESS OF WHO WAS RIGHT OR WRONG A MOTHER, A FATHER LOSS THEIR CHILD IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HOW U RAISE YOUR KID OR HOW MUCH MONEY IS INVOLVED COACH HAINES IS GONE AND ITS SAD THAT PEOPLE NMAKE COMMENTS TO A FAMILY THAT THEY DONT NO OR DONT NO WHAT REALLY HAPPEN REALITY CHECK ” IF IT WAS YOUR FAMILY MEM YOU WOULD FEEL THE SAME AS HIS” SO PLEASE DON’T FIND FAULT IN HIS FAMILY R.I.P COACH HAINES AND MY PRAYERS CONTINUE TO GO OUT TO HIS FAMILY

One way or another, it seems the commentators work overtime to find fault with any and all black victims. Some even go so far as to look up cases in the MD Court Cases database. And always if called on the bigoted arguments the commentators ramp up to the next level. Don’t believe me, then search out “convicted” or “crime” on Google or Yahoo and start digging at the race of the alleged criminals; gather all the facts and then start to read the comments. I’ll guarantee that any and all crimes committed by whites on other whites won’t contain the amount of bigoted or racist comments that you’ll find with “minority on white” or “minority on minority” crimes. And most definitely they’ll never approach the hate of comments made in any white on minority crimes. Typically, if a minority is hurt by someone white in the commission of a crime by the white criminal, commentators will find something negative to say about the minority victim. I’d love it if this wasn’t the case, but it is sadly across all of America.

Years of demonizing minorities done throughout the US’s history have resulted in this, but no one considers the everyday consequences or absurdities. White people carry concealed weapons with a hair trigger around anyone black or brown skinned; kids shot dead by white officers during “no knock” searches because they looked liked they were armed; minority drivers shot dead because they moved suspiciously as the white officer with a gun drawn for a speeding ticket approached from behind. There are countless scenarios where this madness plays out in the real world with dire consequences. Think I’m just grabbing at straws, then search out stories on overturned convictions due to DNA testing. Often someone of a dark skin color is found to be innocent after years of their lives wasted in prison.

All of us have are faults and are strengths. Each story written should have all participants judged on the facts presented and not assumed or manufactured because of a need to spread hate. Should every white person involved in any and all reported incidents only be seen in the light of the multitude of evil whites who’ve lived before, or should they be judged as individuals acting independently – as is typical.

This guy broke a speeding law, he attempted to avoid capture as many young minded thrill seekers do and paid the price with his life. He learned his lesson forever. His grieving mother is trying to move on, but after a legacy of one country’s racism and bigotry she feels there was more to a chase than just an officer trying to do right by the public and serve a ticket. She wants to make such bigotry fueled actions stop…one way to try in America is to make them hurt in the wallet. It will help her, but it may never help us as a nation because some have had racist directed blinders put on at birth and won’t see things any other way but in the way they’ve been taught to see things. It’s sad, but very true. Wake up!

You know what is sad…the fact a U.S. Court would even listen to this case.
This guy was not a kid, he was 27 years old, when I was 27, I had already been married for 5 years and owned my own home. The youth of today are immature beyond belief, and think they are invincible. Well, guess what, I think he found out the hard way, he is not. So we are supposed to feel sorry for this man-child who didn’t have the common sense to 1. Get a friggin’ motorcycle license 2. Obey the speed limit 3. The simplist thing of all, stop for a cop when he attempts to pull you over. That’s what is really sad……..

Here’s the way I see it, the law was passed to not chase bikers, sure if he had not ran he would have been here, but remember it takes a strike of a match to start a fire, the officer made the strike, the officer had duties and rules to follow, he broke them, where human all decision aren’t good ones, don’t act like u shouldn’t been punished for wrong decisions in life! Somebody must pay for a crime and I say the last man standing! Life in prison or 40 million a punishment was maid! And by the way I’m a biker and stand behind my riders right or wrong..

concerned 17 u are the racist piece of sh** for even bringing race up. nobody said anything about race till your stupid coment. u are the black trash that makes us racist. u make everything about race. if u dont like this country and u think we are racist, grab a flight to africa and see how good they treat u over there, they hate black americans because of the way u act. get a life and stop worrying about the white man.

Roy you stand behind bikers right or wrong? You just made your points invalid!

Concerned17 I am a minority but unlike you I dont use it as an excuse! Wrong is wrong and what is real should not be ignored. I sure you hate that his arrest history was discovered it hurts the “Great Guy” argument.

I say to his family, do what is right by your child, ppl. have had enough of Baltimore City corrupted dirty cops that swore to up hold the law and has not. They think they are above the lie. Don’t u all watch the news and see how many cops get in trouble. The officer was wrong He gave chase all the way past baltimore city lines into the county and was told to stop and did not comply. He needs to be off the street..what if it was child he hit also then What? Ppl stopgiving the law so much power when they are wrong wrong wrong.