At Rest

Vehic/Purs
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.
This record exists so that Detrick Barker, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.
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