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'''Victor Demarius Steen''' was a young male who was killed when struck by a Pensacola Police cruiseron [[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 at an empty construction site around 1:50 AM and attempted to stop him for questioning. Ard pursued Steen in his police cruiser and attempted to fire a Taser weapon from the window of the moving cruiser. 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.
In the days after the incident, Officer Ard was placed on paid administrative leave, per Department policy. On [[October 13]], he returned to plain-clothes duty doing administrative work for the Department's patrol division.<ref>"Ard back to work." ''Pensacola News Journal'', October 22, 2009.</ref>
==Effects on police policy==
*[http://www.sclcfl.org/victorsteen/index.html SCLC: Victor Steen]
*[http://www.wkrg.com/florida/article/silent-march-loud-message/454277/Oct-17-2009_10-16-pm/ Silent March, Loud Message]
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