“It’s indescribable,” an attorney for the 20-year-old woman said. “You cannot describe it unless you actually see it — how irresponsible this was.”
Newly released video shows the moment a train smashes into a police car that was parked on railroad tracks with a handcuffed woman in the backseat.Her attorney, Jonathan Stine, said in an interview Monday that the impact caused her to lose teeth and left her with a broken arm, multiple fractured ribs and injuries to her head and legs. She remained hospitalized Monday, he said.
Video showing the moment before a train strikes a patrol car that was parked on train tracks with a handcuffed woman inside.On Friday, the department released eight minutes of edited video from police body cameras and dash-cam to multiple news outlets, includingOfficers can be heard on the video shouting commands at Rios-Gonzalez, including to put her phone down and put her hands out of the window of the pick-up truck she was in, as at least one gun is pointed at her.
As the officers searching the truck discussed whether Rios-Gonzalez might have tossed a gun out a window before she pulled over, a train horn could be heard in the distance. One officer shouted an expletive and said, “Oh my God” multiple times. Another officer could be heard yelling, “Stay back!” An officer standing by the patrol car that Rios-Gonzalez was in ran before it was struck by the train.
The video captured the mangled patrol car and concludes with Weld County sheriff’s officers finding a gun in the center console of the car that Rios-Gonzalez was driving, as well as a bullet and a holster from the vehicle. The Colorado State Patrol is investigating the crash. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation said it is investigating the injuries Rios-Gonzalez sustained while she was in police custody.
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