“You’re cracking, you just drank too much,” said one officer as Randy Cox cried that his neck was broken.

Randy Cox was arrested and placed in handcuffs and put into the back of a van without a seatbelt. Video shows that there were seat straps in the van, but the officers neglected to secure Cox safely. When the officer driving slammed on the brakes to allegedly avoid a car accident, Randy Cox, unprotected in the backseat with his hands cuffed behind his back, was hurled into the back of the van, smashing his head against the interior wall of the van. The violent impact left Cox paralyzed.

To make matters much worse, the officers ignored his pleas for medical attention. Cox was telling the officers his neck was broken and he needed an ambulance. Instead of calling an ambulance to get the injured man much needed medical attention, the officers just took him to the police station. Video shows the officers dragging the now paralyzed man out of the vehicle and they had to put him into a wheelchair because he could no longer move or walk. There is video of the officers also dragging the paralyzed handcuffed man from the wheelchair and dragging him by his arms into a cell several feet away.

The five officers involved in the incident were charged with second degree reckless endangerment and cruelty, these charges are merely misdemeanors.

Randy Cox’s legal team has filed a $100 million lawsuit against New Haven, Connecticut and the police department there.

One of Randy Cox’s lawyers, R.J. Weber, made a statement after the charges against the police officers were announced, “What’s happened here today is never going to change the fact that Randy Cox is paralyzed from the neck down, and that his life, since June 19th, since Juneteenth of 2022 has been irreparably altered.”

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