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David Lucero
Gender : Male
Age : 28
Race : Latino/a/e
Date : 09/21/2023
Location : McBride Avenue and Nagle Street
City : Paterson
County : Passaic
State : New Jersey
Agency : Totowa Police Department
Officer(s) :Damiano DiIorio
Cause of Death : Vehicle
Event : Killed by police chase crash on scooter
OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :
*** UPDATE 10/13/2023: Totowa PD are reported as stonewalling and locking up evidence in an Internal Investigation when they refused repeatedly to relinquish radio calls. They are also refusing to answer the question to this day, weeks after the fatal crash, why they were chasing David Lucero.
Paterson PD chased a person on a scooter for reasons they did not disclose until the scooter crashed into a vehicle and the driver died. Activists began protesting after the crash, stating that police hunt motorists for a sport and PDs from other jurisdictions such as in this case had a habit of hunting motorists in Paterson. BLM Paterson and other groups have been keeping the case visible.
Police did not release the name and identity of their chase victim nor the reason why this happened.The Attorney General's office issued a vague statement, also avoiding mention why the moped had been chased at all. “If the person did something wrong, they would have said it already,” stated Paterson Black Lives Matter organizer Zellie Thomas.
One day after the fatal crash, Paterson PD announced new, more restricted, guidelines in their own pursuit policies that govern police chases.
SOURCE LINKS :
https://patch.com/new-jersey/wayne/moped-rider-dies-after-police-chase-passaic-county-
