Attorney killed in Friday bicycle-truck crash helped overturn Don't Ask Don't Tell
Bystanders and family members continued to place flowers and white-painted ghost bikes over Labor Day weekend at the site where 31-year-old Seattle attorney Sher Kung was struck and killed Friday morning by a truck while riding her bicycle in downtown Seattle.
Seattle police reported that the truck was making a left turn onto University Street from Second Avenue a notoriously dangerous bike corridor that is set for construction of a pilot separated bike lane when it struck and killed Kung.
The Perkins Coie website said Kung was an associate with the firms litigation group, focusing on intellectual property litigation including patent cases relating to mobile, software and gaming technologies. She was active in the American Civil Liberties Union and the GLBT Bar Association and had taken part in prominent cases protecting gay rights.
In 2010, Sher was a member of the ACLU trial team that successfully challenged the Dont Ask Dont Tell policy as applied to a former Air Force Officer in Witt v. Department of the Air Force et al, according to the Perkins Coie website.
The outpouring of grief has been remarkable, wrote the Seattle Bike Blog about the accident. It comes from those who watched it happen, those who knew her and those who bike downtown every day and know that it could have easily been them instead of Kung.
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