Detrick Barker
Name: Detrick Barker
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Race: Race unspecified
Date: 07/10/2002
Location: 721 E. 25th St.
Paterson, New Jersey, 7504
County: Passaic
Agency: Passaic County Prosecutor's Office
Cause of Death: Vehicle
Intended Use of Force: Vehic/Purs
Media summary: Passaic County police were following two men as they rode through city streets on an unregistered dirt bike. Police lost sight of them before the dirt bike hit a curb and a tree, killing driver Dedrick Barker. The surviving passenger, 30-year-old Clarence Smith of Paterson, claimed that a police car followed the dirt bike the entire time, at a distance of only a few feet.
Unique ID: 21541
News article: Link
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