Activist Post By Matt Agorist
Weld County, CO — As TFTP reported last year, a 21-year-old woman was forced to fight for her life in the hospital after one of the most irresponsible law-enforcement actions TFTP has ever reported on. The woman was locked in the back of a police cruiser, left on train tracks, and unable to escape the speeding train coming her way. After we reported the original story, investigators released the video from that night. And now, the officer has been charged.
Platteville police officer Jordan Steinke was initially charged with second-degree felony assault. This week, however, that charge was dropped, and prosecutors are pursuing attempted reckless manslaughter and misdemeanor reckless endangerment for locking Yareni Rios-Gonzalez in a patrol car on train tracks. Steinke, on Thursday, pleaded not guilty.
Rios-Gonzalez has since filed a lawsuit accusing officers of acting recklessly and failing in their duty to take care of her while she was in their custody. In the lawsuit, Rios-Gonzalez alleges the train tracks were “plainly visible” to Steinke when she put Rios in the back seat of the patrol car, according to CPR.
According to reports, officers were searching the woman’s vehicle, utterly oblivious that a train was barreling down the tracks. As they rifle through Rios-Gonzalez’s personal effects, a train horn is heard before it plows into the cruiser’s side, sending it flying more than 30 feet into an adjacent field.
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