Colorado officials reach $8.5 million settlement with woman who was left handcuffed in a police car that was hit by a train | CNN
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Local Colorado officials have reached an $8.5 million settlement with a woman who hospitalized in 2022 after being left handcuffed in a police SUV that was then hit by a train.

Local Colorado officials have reached an $8.5 million settlement with a woman who was hospitalized in 2022 after being left handcuffed in a police SUV that was then hit by a train.

The city of Fort Lupton and town of Platteville, Colorado, agreed on the settlement with the victim, Yareni Rios-Gonzalez, according to a release from the Fort Lupton Police Department. The settlement amount will be split equally between the town and city and paid by their insurers, according to attorney Eric M. Ziporin, whose office represents the city.

Rios, who was a suspect in a road rage case, survived the September 2022 collision but suffered nine broken ribs, a broken arm and other injuries.

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    First off, what kind of fucking moron parks their car on fucking train tracks?

    A cop that wants to execute someone via train.

      • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comEnglish
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        5 months ago

        so what ? there being more than one cop means that there was multiple cops that should have been smarter.

        multiple cops being there makes it look more like an attempt to kill the woman.

        • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
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          5 months ago

          Look, I hate cops as much as the next rational person, but this does not at all look like an attempt to kill the woman. That’s disingenuous at best. This is stupid incompetence and not paying attention, being extremely careless with a person in their care.

          If a parent leaves a gun unattended in their bedroom during a party, and a kid goes and shoots themselves or someone else with it, is that parent or the adults at that party attempting to kill the kid or the other person? No, they are just criminally negligent.

          • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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            5 months ago

            If a parent leaves a gun unattended in their bedroom during a party

            It is nowhere near as negligent and actively harmful as parking a car on train tracks and then handcuffing a person into the back seat of that car.

            • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
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              5 months ago

              Maybe you missed the point where I explicitly said this was criminal negligence. I was arguing it wasn’t intentional homicide, like the guy I replied to said it was.

    • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 months ago

      Oh, no. They were just idiots in this case. If they want to really hurt you, they’ll, just force an EMT to administer a lethal dose of ketamine, or break an old woman’s arm over a petty theft from a walmart and then leave her wounded and untreated in jail for hours, or shoot an unarmed kid that called 911 because he was tripping on too many drugs and needed help. (All things that have happened in the area in the last few years.)