We agree with the hearing court that the only fact known to the police upon their approach of defendant and request for information of defendant, an African-American male, was that he was observed riding a bicycle minutes after the police had received a radio report of a theft of a bicycle by an African-American male. This sole fact did not give rise to reasonable suspicion, the necessary predicate for police pursuit, when defendant fled in response to the police approach...
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