This. Can't. Be. Reformed. *Very graphic* video of police paralyzing man in police van.

[Nevilledog]

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Ben Crump
@AttorneyCrump
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This video is HORRIFIC! Randy Cox was put in a police van without seatbelts and, after an abrupt stop, was thrown into the wall HEAD FIRST. We literally witness his neck break! As he was STILL lying on the van floor, he told the officers that he couldn’t move. What did they do?

They dismissed his pleas as lies. Instead of offering immediate medical aid, officers dragged him off the van & threw him into a wheelchair that may have exacerbated his life-threatening injuries. Randy was brutalized when there was NO reason for the police to do so.

Now, Randy Cox continues to fight for his future. He’s paralyzed from the chest down and has to use a breathing tube – his quality of life is forever diminished. He needs accountability! #JusticeForRandyCox
5:02 PM · Jun 27, 2022

[tulipsandroses]

1. I can't watch. Reminiscent of Freddie Gray's murder

No one was held accountable. Hopefully there will be accountability and some measure of justice here.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

2. Just horrifying.

[Ms. Toad]

3. That was one of the hardest police brutality videos to watch.

That second paragraph does not even come close to describing the repeated violation of the most basic rule for care of back or neck injuries -

They slam on the brakes.
They have to have heard and felt him slam into the panel which separated them from him.
They open the door and find him headfirst against the front panel - complaining that he can't move or feel.

Their very first thought should have been:. Spinal injury. Don't touch him - call an ambulance with the equipment to move him without disturbing the spinal alignment.

I was teaching that concept as part of first aid training when I was barely a teenager, and it apparently never even crossed the minds of these grown up professionals that he just might have a spinal injury?????

Instead, they drive him to the station - risking another quick stop and spinal injury.

Then they repeatedly push, pull, drag, and throw him around - each movement virtually guaranteeing that if they didn't kill him, he would never be able to move independently again.