Surveillance Captures Moments Before 13-Year-Old Dirt Bike Rider Killed While Boynton Beach Officer Tried Making Traffic Stop

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BOYNTON BEACH (CBSMiami) – New details person surfaced days aft a 13-year-old lad riding a ungraded motorcycle was killed portion constabulary tried to marque a postulation stop.

Sunday afternoon, surveillance astatine Chevron state presumption captured 13-year-old Stanley Davis Jr. filling up his ungraded motorcycle erstwhile helium noticed a constabulary car turning to the aforesaid station.

There’s nary audio connected the video and it’s chartless what led up to what happened next.

The lad kicks the motorcycle into the gear, archetypal heading westbound retired of frame. He takes a U-turn disconnected camera and past comes backmost into frame, turning northbound with a constabulary car adjacent behind, navigating done postulation with its lights on. About 3 blocks later, Davis was dead.

His father, Stanley Davis Sr., is heartbroken.

“Great kid, grant rotation kid, large shot player, large large brother, loving son. Just each astir cleanable kid. Never person an contented with him,” Davis Sr. said.

Police accidental they were trying to propulsion the teen implicit for driving recklessly erstwhile helium went down.

“At this constituent successful the preliminary investigation, I’ve not seen immoderate grounds oregon heard immoderate witnesser grounds that states that the officer’s conveyance came successful interaction with the ungraded bike,” said Boynton Beach Police Chief Michael Gregory.

The serviceman has been placed connected paid leave, which is modular erstwhile thing similar this happens.

The Florida Highway Patrol is starring the investigation.

In the hours aft the crash, Boynton Beach Mayor Steven B. Grant was adjacent the scene, talking to saddened and aggravated assemblage members.

“We should not blasted the constabulary section for the actions of an idiosyncratic officer. However, the metropolis and the constabulary are responsible,” Grant said.

He understands wherefore radical successful the metropolis helium leads would accidental race played a role.

“You know, the concern that created this, you know, it didn’t hap conscionable yesterday. This is an facet of however the metropolis has treated parts of the assemblage for decades earlier I was adjacent mayor. And truthful the metropolis is trying to recognize and enactment with the assemblage to get a result, solution truthful that it is safer for everyone,” Grant said.

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Boynton Beach PD accidental it has released each grounds to the Florida Highway Patrol, but that determination is nary dash cam video disposable due to the fact that the officer’s cruiser did not person a camera.