Shocking body camera footage has been released showing the moment a MMA fighter as paralyzed during a violent arrest in Colorado.
Donovan Duran, 24, was arrested outside his father's home in December in La Junta after family reported him being drunk and disorderly, and the footage shows him willingly being handcuffed and placed in a police cruiser.
However secondary footage later shows Duran non-responsive after two officers pull him out of the cruiser and lift him from the ground into a wheelchair, his legs apparently not moving.
Duran suffered a fractured neck in the arrest, which left him paralyzed from the chest down.
Violent arrest: Graphic footage has been released of the arrest of Donovan Duran, 25, who was left paralyzed after he was taken into custody by two officers in December 2015
Duran claims police used excessive force during the arrest, while the officers said he tried to wriggle out of his handcuffs
The body camera footage shows a non-responsive Duran being propped up in a wheelchair and dragged through the hospital
The graphic footage was released this week by the 16th Judicial District Attorney's Office.
A grand jury in April found there were no fileable charges against sergeant Vince Fraker or another officer involved in the encounter, the Denver Post reported.
The grand jurors deemed Fraker responsible for Duran's injuries, but said that 'cannot be the basis of any criminal charges'.
The officers said that Duran moved his handcuffed hands behind his back as he was lifted out of the police cruiser, in an apparent attempt to free himself.
Fraker then rolled him out the car and onto the ground head-first.
However Duran said the officers attacked him.
Paralyzed: Duran has a spinal cord injury which will likely end his MMA fighting career
Duran was paralyzed after being slammed to the ground by cops last December. He's now filed a lawsuit against the police department over the incident
'They ruined my whole life,' Duran told The Denver Post in January.
Duran said that, once he was at the hospital, staff did not believe him when he complained of neck pain and not being able to feel his legs.
'He picked me up real fast,' Duran said of a hospital staffer.
'He got me all the way up to my feet, and I remember him being behind me. He had me by my waist and he just let go. I was dead weight. It was a hard fall. I remember my legs being two separate directions — like noodles dropping. I was like a sack of potatoes.'
Duran's father said his son was quite troubled and had been arrested numerous times in the lead up to the incident that left him paralyzed.
A grand jury declined to indict the officers involved in the arrest of Duran. He is now suing for damages
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ShareHe believes police assaulted his son.
'I think they just got so frustrated with dealing with my son over the span of the weekend that one of them just went off and speared him from behind,' Eddie Duran told The Post.
Duran's attorneys filed a federal lawsuit Monday in Denver against the city of La Junta and Fraker seeking unspecified damages for Duran's injuries.
'La Junta Police Department training of officers does not include proper training in responding to calls involving persons in crisis or with obvious mental health problems, including use of force policies and de-escalation strategies,' the lawsuit says.
The suit claims that Fraker used excessive force that was 'outrageous and shocking to the conscience, in violation of Duran's substantive due process rights.'
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