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By Michael Williams
The Dallas Morning News
(TNS) A man faces potentially life-altering injuries, his family says, after he was injured while being detained by Duncanville police last week. bulletin news
An attorney for Keandre Green, 21, is demanding police release body-worn camera video and conduct a comprehensive investigation into the incident, which left Green with a spine injury.
“Essentially, his spine has been crushed,” Justin A. Moore, an attorney for Green’s family, said Monday during a press conference outside Methodist Dallas Medical Center.
Green’s family said he was jogging in Duncanville Friday morning when he ducked into an alleyway to urinate. A woman called police on Green.
Green ran away from responding officers, a decision Moore attributed to “fear.” He was eventually captured by police.
What happened next isn’t exactly clear, Moore said, but the incident left Green in the hospital with a spine injury. Moore said it’s not clear how Green sustained his injuries. At least three police officers responded to the call, two of whom used force on Green, Moore said. Video posted by Moore shows Green lying immobile in a hospital bed with visible injuries to his eye and shoulder.
“He’s a young man whose quality of life may be forever changed because of an encounter with professionals who were appointed to protect and serve,” Green’s cousin, Dionna Austin, said.
Moore said he’s not even sure whether Green has been charged with a crime; he was initially handcuffed to his hospital bed, but those restraints have since been removed. No police officers are guarding Green’s hospital door, which Moore, a former Dallas County prosecutor, said would be standard procedure for hospital patients under arrest.
A Duncanville police spokesperson said the department would comment on the case later Monday.
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