Please, please, please help me,” Cox said, according to police video. Cox's hands were cuffed behind his back and there were no seat belts, and he flew headfirst into the metal divider between the driver's section and prisoners' area.
“Unfortunately these four police officers wound up in the wrong place, at the wrong time, in the wrong political arena,” said Jeffrey Ment, a lawyer for Diaz and Segui.Ĭox, 37, injured his neck on June 19, 2022, when Diaz braked the van hard to avoid a collision with another vehicle that had pulled out from a side street, according to police and videos of the events. Lawyers for the four fired officers said they plan to contest the terminations in arbitration proceedings, under rules set in the police contract. Ribeiro also apologized to Cox and his family, And this behavior will not be tolerated in this department.” Cox was appalling and is not the way that we would want our officers to treat any of our citizens in the city of New Haven. with this being concluded we can now start to heal as a police department and as a community," said Evelise Ribeiro, chair of the commissioners. The fifth officer, Ronald Pressley, avoided department disciplinary proceedings by retiring in January. Of the five officers who were criminally charged, commissioners have now fired four of them after an internal affairs investigation. Betsy Segui, the detention area supervisor, at the recommendation of Chief Karl Jacobson. New Haven police commissioners voted 5-0 to dismiss Officer Oscar Diaz, the van driver, and Sgt. – Two more Connecticut police officers were fired Wednesday for what officials called their misconduct and lack of compassion in how they treated Richard “Randy” Cox after he was paralyzed in the back of a police van last year.
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