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'''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 at an empty construction site around 1:50 AM and attempted to stop him for questioning. According to Ard, Steen fled the area. Ard pursued Steen in his police cruiser going the wrong way on a four lane highway (causing 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.
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