Five Connecticut police officers were charged Monday with cruelly neglecting a Black man after he was partially paralyzed in the back of a police van, despite his repeated and desperate pleas for help.
Attorney Ben Crump spoke in Connecticut alongside Randy Cox’s family prior to meeting with the Department of Justice. Cox was seriously injured in the back of a police van when the driver braked suddenly.
The five New Haven police officers were charged with second-degree reckless endangerment and cruelty, both misdemeanors. The others charged were Officer Oscar Diaz, Officer Ronald Pressley, Officer Jocelyn Lavandier and Officer Luis Rivera. All have been on administrative leave since last summer.Though each officer faces the same charges, some seemed to take Cox's pleas more seriously than others.
"You can make mistakes, but you can't treat people poorly, period. You cannot treat people the way Mr. Cox was treated," said Police Chief Karl Jacobson. "It is important — when you see that video of how they treated Randy Cox and the actions and inactions that led to him being paralyzed from his chest down — that those police officers should be held to the full extent of the law," Crump said.
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