Police Murder Teen Then Threaten To Confiscate Cell Phone Videos

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Oct. 22, 2009

PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - A police chase in Pensacola early Saturday morning leaves one man dead.
The chase ended with him pinned underneath the officer's car.
It all happened in Brownsville, at the intersection of Cervantes and R Street.
Channel Three's Laurie Bernstein has the story.
Pensacola police officer jerald ard was on routine patrol along cervantes street, when he says he saw a suspicious man hanging around this construction site on t street.
The officer tried to stop the suspect, but the man took off on his bicycle, setting into motion the tragic chain of events.
Chester Williams didn't see the accident happen, but he heard it, as he was walking home around 2am Saturday.
I was coming from the Circle k, saw the police car jump from the right lane into the left lane, turn here at the intersection...
Police say Officer Jerald Ard, a four year veteran of the force, was chasing down a man on a bicycle.
He had already used his blue lights and sirens, as well as his megaphone to tell the man to stop.
He even tried to taser the man through the window of the car, missing him.
As the officer turned onto R Street into this vacant bank parking lot to continue the pursuit, things went horribly wrong.
Boy was on the bicycle, when I get up closer by Sluggo's over here, the bike was outside in the parking lot, boy was over there, up under the police car.
Male subject appeared to have crashed his bicycle and fell into the path of the cruiser car.
This is where the man fell from the bicycle and was struck by the officer, but as we walk over here, you can see where the police car and the body ended up, suggesting the man was actually dragged this short distance.
State troopers spend the day out at the crash scene, taking pictures and measurements.
They are looking into the accident, while the Florida Department Of Law Enforcement will try to determine if officer ard used appropriate force.
Its a tragedy for individual that was killed, tragic for officer as well.
Cant say police did this on purpose, but at the same time, its a life gone.
The victim still has yet to be identified, but witnesses tell us he looked young, in his teens, with dreadlocks.
Officer Ard is on paid administrative leave while investigators look into if he was at fault in this horrible accident.