Looks like a 376 pounder to me!
Posted on 08/04/2022 8:58:43 AM PDT by heartwood
Grim surveillance footage captured the moment a handcuffed Connecticut man broke his neck in the back of a police van after the driver braked suddenly, causing him to smash his head.
Randy Cox, 36, was left paralyzed from the waist down when he was being taken to a police station in New Haven to be processed on a weapons charge on June 19, his family said.
The driver of the van, Officer Oscar Diaz, said he was forced to brake hard in order to avoid a collision, police said.
Diaz continued driving to the station — despite an injured Cox calling out for help and saying he was unable to move from the floor, according to the video and officials.
A few minutes later, Diaz stopped the van to check on Cox. The officer then called paramedics but told them to meet at the station instead of where he’d stopped the van, police said....
After arriving at the station, video showed several officers pulling Cox from the van by his feet and putting him in a wheelchair.
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Connecticut is a state where a police department was allowed by the courts to reject candidates for scoring too high on an IQ test.
Ben Crump is involved. For once in my life, go Crump!
It’s surprising that it didn’t take 376 officers to take this man into custody...
He broke his neck and was paralyzed from the waist down? Doesn’t make sense.
Baltimore police used to play a game called “the nickel ride”. They’d put a prisoner in the back of a police van, then brake, make tight turns, etc. to bounce him around.
Were these Connecticut cops were doing the same thing? Probably not. But who knows? Dash-cam video will tell, if it exists.
Anyway, when you’re in police custody the cops have an absolute duty to protect you. So I gotta wonder if there were seat belts in the back of that van.
He wasn’t seat belted in?
Depends where on the spinal column the break occured.
“Randy Cox”
Adult film star?
It depends on where the break occurred and what the nature of the break is.
From the video, it appears that seat belts were available but not used.
Cops have always loved beating/maiming people to blow off some steam. I had a friend whose dad was a Detroit cop in the 70s.. Nobody made it to jail without severe night sticking.
Broken Neck does not always completely destroy the spinal cord. In this case it damaged it partially.
Looks like a 376 pounder to me!
Once again, cops in a Rat-Run city did this.
“no riots”
The reason is that this happened during the summer when the Yale commie agitators were off campus.
That said, urban police quality continues to deteriorate (both at the leadership, middle management and street level) so we should expect more of these kinds of incidents, not less.
So you think it makes more sense that his sudden paralysis is unrelated to his spinal injury?
Dash cam and body cam exists. The officer driving seemed genuinely concerned but made a bad decision to keep driving to station. There are some kind of straps along bench but apparently not seatbelts.
If the prisoner had sat pressed against the front wall, he might not have been so badly injured. Note to self...
Boy that cop on the right looks real......fit.
Thanks for the laughable insight, DOC! lol
Maybe the straps are seatbelts cinched tight. The front one is looser, looks like a seatbelt.
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