A video circulating online shows a Broward Sheriff's Office Deputy making an arrest of a child on a bicycle earlier this week.
Now BSO has responded.
The sheriff’s office said the deputy in the video is not being investigated after footage showed his unmarked car swerve into a child on a bike before getting out, tackling and detaining the child.
BSO said they were monitoring a “large crowd of juveniles riding bicycles recklessly and engaging in unlawful activity.”
Deputies said the incident is part of what they called a “ongoing organized pattern of reckless behavior by groups of juvenile bicyclists. ”
The child was detained and taken to a hospital as a precaution and received a juvenile civil citation before he was released to his family.
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