NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WFSB) - Three of four remaining officers charged in connection with a case that left man paralyzed in police custody rejected plea deals Wednesday and will head to trial instead.

Former New Haven Police Sergeant Betsy Segui pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment and accepted the state’s offer of 60 days in jail, suspended, and a six-month conditional discharge. She was the supervisor at the detention center the night Cox was paralyzed in June 2022.

Cox was handcuffed in the back of a police transport van when Officer Oscar Díaz slammed the brakes to avoid a car pulling out, sending Cox head first into the van’s doors. At the police station, he told officers he couldn’t move, but they didn’t believe him. Officers pulled him out of the van by his feet, put him in a whe

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