Man paralyzed after being hit with a Taser while running from police in Colorado sues officer

A antheral who says helium was paralyzed aft being deed with a Taser portion moving from constabulary successful Colorado has filed a national suit against 1 of the officers

DENVER -- A antheral who said helium was paralyzed aft being deed with a Taser portion moving from constabulary successful Colorado filed a national suit Thursday against 1 of the officers, seeking $100 cardinal successful damages.

Lawyers for Jacob Root, who was suspected of stealing a car, allege Officer Robert Comstock fired a Taser astatine his backmost without informing which incapacitated him and prevented him from utilizing his hands oregon arms to interruption his autumn to the ground. Root fell look archetypal and broke his cervix aft falling disconnected a sidewalk and into the thoroughfare successful the May 16, 2022 incident, according to the suit.

Root tin beryllium heard asking officers “I can't move. Is that normal?" soon aft the autumn which was recorded connected constabulary assemblage camera footage released by Root's lawyers.

The Colorado Springs Police Department, which was not named arsenic a defendant, lone learned of the suit erstwhile it was announced to the media. The section is successful the aboriginal stages of reviewing the facts of the lawsuit and declined remark for now, spokesperson Ira Cronin said. Comstock is inactive moving for the section and is “good standing,” helium said.

Comstock could not beryllium reached for remark and the constabulary department's national did not instantly instrumentality a telephone seeking comment.

According to the lawsuit, Root was being pursued by a stolen conveyance task unit comprising officers from antithetic agencies aft helium was spotted wrong a 2017 Ford Fusion. The car was antecedently seen doubly unoccupied and constabulary were utilizing a tracking instrumentality to travel it, it said.

After the car got distant from constabulary earlier successful the day, constabulary saw Root successful the car aboriginal connected astatine a state station, according to the lawsuit. It said helium past went into the station's store and officers waited for him to travel retired to apprehension him. Root was deed with the Taser portion helium was moving away, the tribunal papers added.