Two officers fired over treatment of man who became paralyzed in police van after 2022 arrest

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Two police officers were fired for what authorities called their reckless actions and lack of compassion toward Richard 'Randy' Cox, who was injured and became paralyzed in the back of a police van after his arrest.

The City of New Haven, Connecticut, fired two police officers Wednesday for what authorities called their reckless actions and lack of compassion toward Richard"Randy" Cox, who was injured andCity police commissioners voted to dismiss Jocelyn Lavandier and Luis Rivera for violating officer conduct rules on following the law, integrity, trustworthiness, courtesy and respect.

"It made me sick to my stomach, to treat somebody like that," Cox's sister, Latoya Boomer, told CBS News. Image taken from police body camera video provided by New Haven Police shows Richard"Randy" Cox being pulled from the back of a police van and placed in a wheelchair after being detained by police on June 19, 2022, in New Haven, Conn.Police Chief Karl Jacobson recommended to police commissioners in March that Lavandier, Rivera, Diaz and Segui be fired.

Gray, who also was Black, died in 2015 after he suffered a spinal injury while handcuffed and shackled in a city police van.

 

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