Five Connecticut police officers have been charged with misdemeanors over their treatment of a Black man after he was paralyzed from the chest down in the back of a police van
FILE - 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. Five Connecticut police officers were charged with misdemeanors Monday, Nov. 28, over their treatment of Cox after he was paralyzed from the chest down in the back of a police van. NEW HAVEN, Conn.
New Haven's police chief, speaking to reporters Monday along with the city's mayor, said it was important for the department to be transparent and accountable. . Gray, who was also Black, died in 2015 after he suffered a spinal injury while handcuffed and shackled in a city police van. Cox was arrested June 19 after police said they found him in possession of a handgun at a block party. The charges against him were later dropped.
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