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− | '''Victor Demarius Steen''' was a | + | '''Victor Demarius Steen''' was a young male who was killed when struck by a Pensacola Police cruiser on [[October 3]], [[2009]]. |
Steen was struck and killed by the cruiser of [[Pensacola Police]] Officer Jerald Ard while riding his bicycle in the [[Brownsville]] neighborhood of Pensacola. Officer Ard claims to have spotted Steen casing a construction site around 1:50 AM and attempted to stop him for questioning. According to Ard and dashcam footage, Steen fled the area, attempting to avoid arrest. Ard pursued Steen in his police cruiser with his patrol lights on going the wrong way on a four lane highway (lights were activated to alert Steen and avoid danger to others) and attempted to fire a Taser weapon from the window of the moving cruiser.<ref name="ppd1">[http://www.ci.pensacola.fl.us/ppd/press.asp?action=detail&ID=14279 Pensacola Police Department press release, October 3, 2009.]</ref> The chase ended when Steen was struck by the cruiser and dragged until the cruiser came to a stop at a median in an empty parking lot at the corner of [[Cervantes Street|Cervantes]] and [[R Street]]s. Steen was pronounced dead at the scene. | Steen was struck and killed by the cruiser of [[Pensacola Police]] Officer Jerald Ard while riding his bicycle in the [[Brownsville]] neighborhood of Pensacola. Officer Ard claims to have spotted Steen casing a construction site around 1:50 AM and attempted to stop him for questioning. According to Ard and dashcam footage, Steen fled the area, attempting to avoid arrest. Ard pursued Steen in his police cruiser with his patrol lights on going the wrong way on a four lane highway (lights were activated to alert Steen and avoid danger to others) and attempted to fire a Taser weapon from the window of the moving cruiser.<ref name="ppd1">[http://www.ci.pensacola.fl.us/ppd/press.asp?action=detail&ID=14279 Pensacola Police Department press release, October 3, 2009.]</ref> The chase ended when Steen was struck by the cruiser and dragged until the cruiser came to a stop at a median in an empty parking lot at the corner of [[Cervantes Street|Cervantes]] and [[R Street]]s. Steen was pronounced dead at the scene. |