Whoops! The SPD pulled over—and allegedly harassed—the wrong bicyclist.

Almost one year after a cyclist was pulled over and allegedly harassed by a Seattle Police Department officer for "riding too slowly" during a Car-Free Days event in Columbia City, David Hiller, the advocacy director for the Cascade Bicycle Club, has filed a misconduct complaint against another SPD officer for (allegedly) doing the exact same thing during this year's Car-Free Days event in West Seattle. Hiller filed his complaint with SPD's Office of Professional Accountability, which investigates misconduct cases.

According to the complaint, filed last month, Hiller and his wife were riding in the road along Harbor Ave. SW when an officer in a marked police car got on the car's PA system and ordered them to move right or be charged for "blocking the road." At that point, a woman in a nearby group of cyclists pointed to a sharrow in the road—a marking that indicates cyclists may be present. According to Hiller's complaint, the officer responded, "That’s not the law. Read a newspaper or I’ll stop the car and teach you the law." Then, the complaint says, the officer "accelerated at an aggressive and dangerous rate past the group of persons on the roadway and departed the scene at a high rate of speed."

"You don't have to ride in the bike lane or the shoulder," Hiller says. "The perception of safety is in the mind of the user," not passing drivers.

Hiller's complaint continues: "The officer in question displayed poor judgment, shocking and inexcusable ignorance of the SMC’s and RCW’s and a complete absence of tact. His conduct reflects poorly on the Seattle Police Department, the City of Seattle and all those who serve."

Ironically, the officer appears to be a member of the department's Aggressive Driving Response Team, which targets dangerous drivers; Hiller says the officer was driving a Dodge Charger, which are driven only by members of the aggressive driving team. According to SPD's web site , the goal of the team is to "improve pedestrian and driver safety across the city."

SPD could not confirm the name of the officer, described by Hiller as a white man in his 40s, and OPA did not return a call for comment.

Hiller has asked SPD for a written apology from the officer; he says he was told "that's unlikely."

"I really just want to know that this guy knows the [law] and has had some time thinking about how to deal with the public before he's back out there in a car," Hiller says.