Five New Haven police officers arrested and charged over alleged involvement in incident that left a Black man paralyzed earlier this year while in police custody, prosecutors say.
November 28, 2022, 7:31 PMIn this image taken from police body camera video provided by New Haven Police, Richard"Randy" Cox, center, is pulled from the back of a police van and placed in a wheelchair after being detained by New Haven Police on June 19, 2022, in New Haven, Conn.Five New Haven police officers were arrested and charged over their alleged involvement in an incident that left a Black man paralyzed earlier this year while in police custody, prosecutors announced Monday.
In October, all charges against Cox were dropped, according to the New Haven Superior Court clerk's office. In this image taken from police body camera video provided by New Haven Police, Richard"Randy" Cox, center, is pulled from the back of a police van and placed in a wheelchair after being detained by New Haven Police on June 19, 2022, in New Haven, Conn.During an abrupt stop, Cox was thrown head-first into the back wall of the van, his lawyers said in June, and the video shows.
"I'm not gonna say what those officers felt, but it seems like they thought he was intoxicated. So they weren't taking his claims as legitimate," New Haven Police Chief Karl Jacobson said in an interview with ABC News in September when the lawsuit was filed. "We as a police department, especially [with] someone in custody, need to take everybody's claims legitimately, and build that legitimacy with the community.
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