FLINT, MI -- A Flint police officer who hit a bicyclist while speeding and operating without his siren activated violated state law and departmental policy, a retired Michigan police chief told a Genesee Circuit Court jury.

Former Plymouth Township Police Chief Thomas Tiderington told jurors on Wednesday, Nov. 19, that former Flint officer Christopher Delaney should not have been speeding at up to 79 miles per hour through a three-street intersection where his cruiser hit bicyclist Donald Cameron on West Court Street more than five years ago.

The crash left Cameron with multiple fractures, no memory of the night of the crash, and a traumatic brain injury.

Kenneth Cameron — Donald Cameron’s conservator, guardian and brother — sued the city, the Flint Police Department, and Delaney, claim

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