“What happened to Mr. Cox was just horrible and completely unacceptable … and will not be tolerated at the New Haven police station,” the mayor told a news conference Tuesday. The incident happened on June 19, when New Haven police arrested Cox on suspicion of illegal possession of a firearm and other charges, Elicker wrote. Court documents obtained by CNN show that he has been charged with “threat in the first instance”, a felony charge, among others. As a pickup truck transported Cox to a New Haven police detention center, an officer who was driving “made a sudden stop to avoid a motor vehicle accident” and Cox, in the back of the van, was injured, Eliker wrote. The city posted six videos of Cox and his arrest, one of which shows Cox – unsecured on the van bench – sliding with his head against the van’s inner wall behind the cab. Elicker said the van was not equipped with seat belts. Some of the shots that were released also show several police officers taking him out of the van and putting him in a wheelchair. In the recordings, Cox repeatedly tells officers that he cannot move and asks for help, but they keep telling him to sit or move his legs or give him other instructions. Cox is later shown being dragged to a cell, where he is placed on a bed. As an officer leaves, Cox falls to the floor and ends up lying on his back. The videos come from police cameras worn on the body and a camera in the back of the police van. “Randy Cox is lying in that hospital bed paralyzed from the chest down because of the actions and inactions of the New Haven Police Department,” Crump said. The officers on leave include the driver of the van, three police officers at the detention center and the facility supervisor, Eliker wrote. It is also being investigated by the department’s internal affairs, he said. The New Haven Police Department, when asked by CNN to comment, referred CNN to comments made by members of the department in previous press conferences. “Mr Cox was ill-treated. He should have received medical attention immediately,” Assistant Chief of Police Carl Jacobson told a news conference Tuesday. “We can not defend anything that was released.” Connecticut State Police denied CNN’s request for comment, except to say it could not yet publish any files on the case because it was under investigation.

What the video shows

Footage from inside the van shows Cox getting into the back of the vehicle and immediately starting to throw his body on the metal side of the vehicle. The police do not put him in any kind of zone on the way to the detention center. He then lies on the floor as soon as the van accelerates and starts kicking the van doors repeatedly. Cox, whose wrists are handcuffed behind his back, returns to the bench running to the side of the van. Sit for about 10 seconds. According to the speed data contained in the video, the vehicle goes 36 mph when a horn sounds and Cox slips on the bench and falls to the side, hitting his head against the metal wall behind the cab of the van as the speedometer goes down into seconds at 0.. Video from a body camera worn by the policeman driving the van shows him honking several times while he seems to be slowing down suddenly.
Cox is heard shouting “help” several times and telling the officer that he had fallen and could not get up. The officer asks if they are well and tells Cox that a car had pulled in front of the van and they were about to be hit. When Cox is heard shouting from behind, the officer tells Cox, “I can’t hear you. What’s going on?” Cox begged the officer to stop the truck and repeatedly said he could not move and that he thought he had broken his throat. The officer tells him, “You have to give me a second. I can not open the door without another officer here.” The policeman continues to drive. A minute later, the policeman tells him that he will take him by ambulance when they arrive at the detention center and repeats that he will not open the door. After almost another minute as Cox struggles to communicate with the officer, Cox repeats that he broke his throat. The officer replies, “I stop. I’m going to check on you.” After the van stopped, about 3.5 minutes after the incident, the police officer went to the back and opened the door. “I fell. I can’t move my arms,” ​​says Cox. The policeman replies: “I can not move you. So I have to call an ambulance.” The police officer can then be seen calling an ambulance to meet them at the detention center. He continues to drive. About eight and a half minutes after Cox hit the inside wall of the van, they arrive at the detention center. The policemen open the door and, as they prepare to get into the truck to help, an officer warns the others, “Just be careful, he was kicking the door and everything else.” An officer enters the van to try to pick up Cox. The policeman takes off the handcuffs and other policemen are heard telling him to roll. The police try to move Cox’s legs and Cox tells them that they can not hear and that he can not move. An officer replies, “You’re not even trying.” Cox is told to get out of the van. He hears him say, “Look, look, if you have to drag me, do what you have to do.” Police slip Cox from the van off his feet and he begins to fall to the ground. Two police officers hold him by the hands while another takes a wheelchair. An officer tells Cox that he drank too much and sat down. The police put Cox in the wheelchair and he slips out. Cox says, “I can’t feel it, bro.” An officer yells at Cox to sit down. Cox then gets up again and falls into the wheelchair. Cox begins to fall from his wheelchair again when two police officers appear to hold him up. After treating Cox in jail, the video shows him slipping partially out of his wheelchair seat. The police drag him from the wheelchair, across the floor to a detention cell and then support him in bed. As the last officer in the cell leaves, Cox falls to the floor. He is handcuffed and the door to the detention cell is closed. None of the six videos show an ambulance arriving or Cox preparing for transport to the hospital.

Eliker, the mayor, wrote that those detained at the New Haven police station should be treated with dignity, respect and safety. “I am also concerned that the actions of the officers involved in this incident were far from it and do not reflect the high standards that I know other police officers adhere to on a daily basis as they put their lives on the line to protect and serve our residents and “They keep us safe,” he wrote. The president of the New Haven Police Association, Elm City Local, Florencio Cotto, sent a statement to CNN about the incident. “Because of the nature of the incident surrounding the injury he suffered while transporting an arrested person, the New Haven Police Association has been flooded with press investigations from across the country. As the case has become an active criminal investigation, New Haven police “The union will not comment in detail at this time, but we will provide legal assistance and representation to the officers involved in the case,” he said. At Tuesday’s press conference, the mayor announced that the transport vehicles will be shut down as the police department develops new procedures. Until then, detainees will be transported by police cruisers who are required to wear seat belts. At that press conference, Jacobson, the assistant police chief, said that, according to the department’s protocol, detainees should not be touched if they say they have been injured. “This is part of the protocol, so we will strengthen it. And we will look at everything related to the booking. Transportation. Everything. That’s why we take the trucks offline and transport them by car,” Jacobson said. “This is not a proud moment for me or the police force,” Jacobson told a community meeting hosted by the NAACP. “We are all disappointed with what happened and I want justice for Randy as well. We will work hard to make a change,” Jacobson told a meeting recorded by CNN’s subsidiary WFSB. “I watched it 20 times to remind me what I have to do with this police station and the changes I have to make because we have good police officers, but someone has to say something. “So I watched it several times because I do not want to forget what happened. And I want this community to know that we will do everything we can to vindicate Randy and pray for his health and recovery.”

The family says the way they treated Cox is a “shame”

The state attorney’s office told CNN it would not release details about Cox or his arrest. Cox has been charged with three felonies and two misdemeanors in connection with his June 19 arrest. Crimes are threatening in the first place. criminal possession of a firearm; and carrying a pistol without a license, according to court documents filed with the state Supreme Court. He was also charged with two misdemeanors: a second-degree breach of peace and a second-degree threat, according to the documents. Boomer, Cox’s sister, on Tuesday called for the police officers to be fired and arrested. Any passers-by who saw what was happening but did not speak out should be suspended and retrained, he said. He said he could not watch all the videos of the incident. “I started watching the videos and his treatment was a shame,” he said. Doctors are optimistic but not …