Dexter Walters died in a motorcycle crash in Brooklyn Saturday. Two cops told investigators they were not chasing the biker, but his father believes this "sounds like a cover-up."
The father of a motorcyclist who crashed and died in Brooklyn after a run-in with cops accused police of a cover-up after video surfaced of a pursuit.
The two officers who were put on desk duty after Dexter Walters’ death Saturday told investigators they were not chasing the biker, sources said.
But investigators uncovered a video that showed the police car pursuing Walters and a biker friend with its lights on.
Internal Affairs cops are trying to determine how much time passed between the end of the early-morning chase and the crash.
“It sounds like a cover-up,” said the father, who is also named Dexter, and lives in Queens. “I think that something needs to be done.”
The two officers, both from the 70th Precinct, only copped to following Dexter Walters, 29, before the crash in Brooklyn after Collision Investigation Squad detectives found video of the incident, the sources said.
“The officers were asked if they pursued the motorcycle and they said no,” a high-ranking police source said. “They were put on modified assignment after a video came up showing otherwise.”
The cops had apparently pursued Walters and another man, who were speeding for a block near Prospect Park before Walters clipped a side-view mirror and was thrown from his bike, police sources said.
Walters’ dad described his son as a loving father of a 6-year-old girl, with another child on the way.
“He was a good father,” Walters said. “He loved his daughter to death,” said the victim’s father. “He’d do anything for her. And if you asked him for anything, he’d do it for you.”
DANNY IUDICI/FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWSCops investigate the scene where Walters was fatally injured in a crash on Parkside Ave. near Park Circle early Saturday. Two officers have been placed on desk duty after attempting to stop Walters, according to a source.
“He was a kind child,” the father added. “The boy was a saint compared to a lot of the friends he kept.”
Walters said his son, a construction manager, bought the red Yamaha motorcycle four months ago after selling off his beloved Honda Civic, which had a souped-up engine. His father said he tried to convince his son not to buy the motorcycle.
“But kids – they do what they want to do," the father said.
The father said he knows the other man who was riding around with his son but the guy doesn’t want to talk to anybody about what happened.
Cops said they want to talk to him.
“He’s scared that they’re going to pin something on him,” Walters said. “He’s staying very low.”
Walters and his friend zipped by the cops’ cruiser on Parkside Ave. near Park Circle around 1:14 a.m. Saturday, police sources said. The officers attempted to stop them.
Walters tried to pass a moving van, clipped a sideview mirror of a parked car and crashed. He was rushed to Kings County Hospital, where he died, police said.
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