By THOMAS BREEN and NORA GRACE-FLOOD | New Haven Independent
Randy Cox’s family and legal team stepped up the pressure on the Elicker Administration to “act now” and do their part to help the paralyzed 36-year-old New Havener — a month after his attorneys filed a $100 million civil lawsuit against the city, and as the highest payout the city’s insurance companies could cover appears to be $30 million.
Cox’s advocates issued that plea Friday midday during a vigil and press conference held by the front steps of City Hall on Church Street.
During a responding press conference held by Mayor Justin Elicker, Corporation Counsel Patricia King, and Police Chef Karl Jacobson inside City Hall right afterwards, King said that the city is still waiting to hear how much its insurance companies might cover in this case. She also said that the maximum those insurance companies could pay is $30 million. (See below for more.)
Led by national civil rights attorney Ben Crump, national social justice organizer Tameka Mallory, state and local leaders of the NAACP, and Cox’s mom Doreen Coleman and sister Latoya Boomer, the group of advocates stood in front of several dozen school-aged children midday as they directed their critique towards the mayor and the police department.
State NAACP President Scot X. Esdaile framed the event as a “Justice Delayed, Justice Denied” press conference for Randy Cox in the wake of his June 19 injury and paralysis while in police custody.
Friday’s event also took place more than a month after Cox’s legal team filed a civil lawsuit in federal court against the city and New Haven Police Officers Oscar Diaz, Ronald Pressley, Jocelyn Lavandier and Luis Rivera and Sgt. Betsy Segui seeking $100 million in damages for the cops’ alleged violations of the paralyzed 36-year-old New Havener’s constitutional rights.
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