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"Oh my God, oh my God!" A train runs over the police car in which they had arrested a young Latina before the eyes of the agents

2022-09-26T15:35:32.664Z


"Stand back!" an officer shouts to his companions as Yareni Rios-Gonzalez, 20, remains handcuffed inside the car on the tracks. A recording picks up the tremendous crash of the train.


A 20-year-old Latina, Yareni Rios-Gonzalez, was seriously injured on September 16 when a freight train ran over the police car in which she had been detained and handcuffed.

Police camera footage released Friday shows officers with the Platteville Police Department, a small township between Denver and Fort Collins, becoming alarmed at the sound of the train's horn in the distance as they search Rios's car.

However, they seem to react only when the train approaches the police car: "Back!" an agent shouts to his colleagues, according to The Washington Post, as he walks away from the car in which the woman remains handcuffed.

"Oh my God, oh my God!"

another officer yells as the train collides with the car, according to footage from the officers' cameras.

Rios-Gonzalez was seriously injured, according to her lawyer, Paul Wilkinson, to the local newspaper The Denver Post (which requested the publication of the police recordings), with nine broken ribs, a fractured sternum and injuries to the head and back.

She is hospitalized and there is no fear for her life, according to police.

Images from a police camera before the crash.

Telemundo

Wilkinson explained that the woman could hear the train's horn and saw it approaching.

"She tried to get the attention of the cops, yelling at them. She tried to unlock the door. She had her hands behind her back and was frantically trying to unlock the door," the attorney said.

Rios-Gonzalez was taken into custody after police received a report of a road rage incident involving a firearm.

According to The Denver Post, the eight minutes of the video from the police patrol camera and an officer's body camera were edited before public release.

In any case, they show how the agents take Rios-Gonzalez out of her car, order her to kneel on the ground with her hands up, handcuff her and put her in the back of the police car, which is on the train tracks, while they search the woman's vehicle for the weapon reported in the previous incident.

On video: The shocking images of the crash of a train with a patrol in Colorado

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Rios-Gonzalez says: "I'm confused," as she is handcuffed and taken to the police car.

A minute later she hears the train's horn, on the police recording, as officers argue about whether the woman was able to throw the gun out the car window before she was taken into custody.

The train's horn sounds louder and more frequently, but the officers only react just before it hits the car.

That is when an officer asks the rest to back off, before the train runs over the car with the detainee.

After the collision, the agent asks for medical help, explaining that "the suspect was in the vehicle hit by the train."

The officers then run to the car, the footage shows, which then cuts to show the officers searching Rios-Gonzalez's vehicle again.

On video: The shocking images of the crash of a train with a patrol in Colorado

Sept.

24, 202200:41

A police officer (whose identity has not been publicly disclosed) is on administrative leave while state authorities investigate what happened, Colorado public radio reported.

Police found a weapon in the vehicle of Ríos-González, who is being investigated for the previous incident.

The Weld County District Attorney's Office told The Denver Post that the girl has not been charged in the road rage incident.

Source: telemundo

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