Indianapolis: A man Indianapolis who said he was paralyzed when he was taken to prison in 2019 submit officers who accused the officers throwing them behind the van who did not have safety restraint.
The lawsuit, announced Monday, alleged that when Van arrived in prison 20 minutes later, Travis Shinneman could not support his weight.
The 49-year-old player remained paralyzed from the neck down and needed treatment around the clock, his troubler said.
The case reminded Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man, who died in 2015 after his neck was broken when he was handcuffed and was shackled in a Baltimore police van.
Shinneman, white, was arrested by Metro Indianapolis police officers in September 2019 because of irregular behavior and public poisoning, according to court documents.
The police then handed it to the officers with the Sheriff Marion County office to take him to prison.
He is the only passenger behind the van and there is no camera to monitor him, the lawsuit.
The lawsuit named the office of Sheriff County Marion and several employees, as well as Indianapolis police officers and several city officials.
The Sheriff department issued a statement on Monday that it did not comment on the delayed litigation but that “there are two sides for each story, and in the end it will be a judge and a judge who is likely to complete litigation.” The lawsuit when Van arrived in prison, Shinneman Lying down on the floor with his head at the Tailgate door.
He then “forcefully moved” by several representatives and put into a wheelchair, according to the lawsuit.
Lawyers Shinneman released a record of security cameras that they debated showing several prison employees Marion County “persecuted him, advancing his wound.
Other employees mocked him because of his condition or” just ignoring it ‘, according to the lawsuit, which was submitted Sunday.
The lawyers also said a nurse in the place of observing Shinneman was only from the distance before refusing to accept it because he believed that he was just drunk.
Shinneman was finally taken out of the area of ​​intake in what his lawyer described as “a way that was tied to pigs and taken to the Eskenazi hospital.
There, he was diagnosed with a broken and dislocated spinal marrow, producing paralysis.
Shinneman now lives in a home nurse, said Its troubling.
The legal team is looking for “accountability among public officials and law enforcers,” and damage.
“This is a disturbing case because it really can happen to anyone, ” said Jennifer Culotta, one of Shinneman’s lawyers.” It was surprising that after Freddie Gray’s death, that Van Prison Transportation Marion fighters were not equipped with security.
Belts, cameras to monitor transportation, or security measures to ensure that transportation is not thrown behind van transport such as pinball on the machine.
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