Colorado officials reach $8.5 million settlement with woman who was left handcuffed in a police car that was hit by a train ( www.cnn.com )

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.

dogslayeggs ,

The weird thing is this cop didn't put the suspect in her own car, but another officer's car who had parked on the tracks.

First off, what kind of fucking moron parks their car on fucking train tracks? Holy shit, that guy should have been punished as much as the officer who put the suspect in the car just for being so goddamn stupid.

Secondly, the cop should have noticed that the car she put the suspect in was on the tracks. She probably assumed the car was a safe place to put a person, since you would think nobody would be so stupid as to park on the tracks.

A_Random_Idiot ,
@A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world avatar

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

A cop that wants to execute someone via train.

dogslayeggs ,

The cop who parked there isn't the cop who put the suspect in the car.

TheReturnOfPEB ,

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 ,

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.

Eheran ,

Thank you.

intensely_human ,

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.

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