LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — From an early age Tre' Davis said he knew he wanted to be in law enforcement, but what he couldn't predict is the trials he would face waiting ahead to get to that point.
"I tried to stop a motorcycle driving in Bryant. He didn't want to stop for me, so we started chasing him and during the course of the pursuit I lost control my vehicle and struck a tree," Davis said.
Davis at the time was as an officer with the Bryant Police Department when the crash happened on September 24, 2022 and suffered multiple injuries.
"I broke my pelvis which required about three months in a wheelchair," Davis recalled. "My left arm was non-weight bearing for quite a while."
The recovery process took around five months and even when he returned to work, he wasn't quite 100%.
Despite how the odds looked those past several months, Davis made a decision to keep pushing on to the finish line.
"It's still doesn't feel quite real. That's something I've dreamed about for a long time and then after the wreck I want to say that I was confident I knew the whole time, but also was trying to be realistic that this may not be a possibility," Davis said.
Shorty after the crash, Davis was accepted as a recruit to become a state trooper within the same month of the crash which led Davis to the next chapter of his life which was recovery.
"I knew that I was going to be a trooper whenever I woke up in the hospital I had troopers that were there with me that were pushing me to be better, pushing me to work hard, push me to keep all of my dreams," Davis told us. "So whenever I was in physical therapy I was focusing on I just need to make it to troop school then troop school came around now I'm just here to focus on becoming a trooper."
All Davis' hard work paid off as Davis graduated as a state trooper on December 21, 2023, joining over 50 recruits who graduated that day.
He said nothing he could've accomplished without the help of his family, law enforcement family, and friends.
"They really did kind of take a chance with me I mean, they knew my medical situation, but I didn't let it affect me. I just kept grinding I wasn't trying to use that as an excuse to not do what the other recruits were doing," Davis said.
Now the inner child in Davis who knew all along he would become a trooper is proud to be looking on this moment.
"I'm really proud of the uniform that I wear, the hard work that I've put into to get into this point every time I put it on, it makes me feel good," Davis said.