dirt bike tragedy

Jermaine Alexander died because of a dirt bike accident. as a young child his mother Sandra Howard-Witherspoon said, " when he was 5 he would ride his bicycle only if he had smashed tin cans in the wheels to mimic the dirt-bike growl". his uncle decided to take him to the park to teach him to ride the real thing. Jermaine was really obsessed with dirt bikes, he would run to the window to see who ever was riding down the street on one. He would even get different parts like junk scraps to put on dirt bikes that he had fixed up. then, on march 13, he and a friend went to borrow a dirt bike so they could return to their school at dismissal time to show off to their classmates. A boy named Eric Carter 15, who was riding with Alexander said cops in a marked police cruiser spotted them at Frankford and oxford and gave chase. the police said that there wasn't any chase. The boys then split up, after about a mile Alexander ended up on Frankford avenue at butler street he ran into a car that was turning in front of hi speeding bike. the bike shattered, and he died. According to the police department, it is illegal in Philadelphia to drive a four-wheeler or dirt bike on streets or parks, the say that its a no-pursuit policy for the vehicles saying that the dangers of a chase out weight the offense. i think that cops shouldn't want to chase a kid that is on a dirt bike or a four-wheeler. its much more things that they should be worried about. like shootings, robbery, rape and other sorts of things. i think that Jemaine was an innocent child that didn't mean any harm. He just wanted to have fun o the dirt bike with his friend.