And we don't know the officer "creamed" anyone. It sounds as if he pulled up to or in front of the OP, the OP tried to pass and the officer grabbed the bike telling him to get off the bike. Somehow (either intentionally or accidentally) the OP dumped over then proceeded to back up and was taken down forcefully ... maybe, excessively.
I had actually just ridden by the police station, looking for a nearby post office (someone told me these are open at night thus enabling a chance to get warm).
It was after I turned around and road by the second time. I was just past the police station, parallel, facing away from it. He pulled up along my side and said "someone called in and said you were riding in traffic" (there was a single car approx. 20 minutes earlier, so I also doubted the claim). He asked why I was out here, I said I was homeless looking for somewhere warm to stay. I mentioned looking for the post office, that someone said it was open. He said it wasn't. At that point, I said I would try riding further to the side of the road, and started riding again as he started asking for I.D. I went around the corner onto the next road w/o hearing him say anything further, and road about 100 feet onto that road.
And we don't know the officer "creamed" anyone. It sounds as if he pulled up to or in front of the OP, the OP tried to pass and the officer grabbed the bike telling him to get off the bike. Somehow (either intentionally or accidentally) the OP dumped over then proceeded to back up and was taken down forcefully ... maybe, excessively.
He pulled up along side of me again, I looked at him right as he said "hey! stop the bike" while simultaneously running out of the vehicle towards me, grabbing the handlebar (& knocking the bike down). It happened so fast I hardly had chance to react. Snow and ice prevented me from accelerating, et cetera.
Per the OP, he never even lost his footing. He never "dumped over"
That is accurate, until the second officer came and they brought me down, of course.
But, as he has already approached some attorneys and none are willing to take the case on contingency, that signals that ether the attorneys do not deal with these sorts of matters, or, they felt his claims were weak at best. I know of attorneys that live to sue the cops, and if there was a chance of winning (or, more likely, settling out of court) they would be all over this. I can't imagine IL is any less litigious than CA.
Yesterday I obtained significantly more information about which attorneys to contact online. Unfortunately I live in a very rural area over an hour away from the largest region and the diversity of attorneys is limited. Thus those I had contacted prior did not deal with these matters (civil rights, apparently).
My focus has been on seeking medical treatment, which unfortunately I still do not have due to lack of finances and lack of responses by facilities operating on financial assistance basis.
And diagnosis has been poor. I had to insist on an Xray 3 weeks after initial injury, which a local MD described only as a fracture. Yet I am very certain there is a complete break in the other elbow (the tell-tail gap and failure of the arm when lifting even it's own weight 90* over my head makes this obvious).
In other words, I'm concerned that I still don't have enough medical information for a lawyer, let alone actually fixing the problem before it becomes more permanent than it already is. Medical treatment has been the distracting issue.
Thanks again for your time replying.