Randy Cox, who was paralyzed while being transported handcuffed and without a seat belt in the back of a New Haven police van following his arrest last year, reached a $45 million settlement with the city.
The agreement was reached Friday evening following a daylong conference with a federal magistrate judge, Mayor Justin Elicker said. It came two days after the city"The city's mistakes have been well documented," a statement by attorneys Ben Crump, Louis Rubano and R.J. Weber, who represented Cox, said."But today is a moment to look to the future, so New Haven residents can have confidence in their city and their police department.
Once at the police station, officers mocked Cox and accused him of being drunk and faking his injuries, according to surveillance and body-worn camera footage. Officers dragged Cox by his feet out of the van and placed him in a holding cell prior to his eventual transfer to a hospital. The case drew outrage from civil rights advocates like the NAACP, along with comparisons to the Freddie Gray case in Baltimore. Cox is Black, while all five officers who were arrested are Black or Hispanic. 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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