Police board votes to fire two Connecticut police officers involved in arrest that left man paralyzed.
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The vote on whether to terminate Diaz and Segui was originally scheduled for June 7, but was postponed because the officer's attorneys were not available. "What happened to Mr. Cox is indeed a very unfortunate incident, but it is a much larger issue in the NHPD which involves inadequate equipment and a lack of training," Cerittelli added.
ABC News has reached out to the New Haven Police Department and an attorney representing Cox for further comment.voted on June 7 to terminate two other officers who were involved in Cox's arrest"This is an absolute rush to judgment," Lavandier's attorney Dan Ford told ABC News in a statement on June 8. "At a minimum the City should have waited for the judicial process to play out before terminating Officer Lavandier.