Randy Cox’s mother, Doreen Coleman, spoke outside at City Hall Tuesday. (Sophie Sonnenfeld, Contributing Photographer)

Every day Randy Cox’s mother Doreen Coleman rides the bus an hour to Apple Rehabilitation in West Haven, where her son is recuperating after he was permanently paralyzed by police in June.

At a press conference outside New Haven City Hall on Tuesday, Coleman spoke about Cox’s challenges, which include rehabilitation center staffing shortages and his deteriorating health due to insufficient care. Cox’s lawyers and family members described his precarious medical condition, criticized the leniency of the charges brought against the officers responsible for his paralysis and questioned Major Justin Elicker’s commitment to helping Cox’s case in light of recent legal filings.

“[The family is] here with a heavy heart today because they are responding to the recent developments in the ongoing saga for justice for Randy Cox, and it is becoming a saga,” said Cox’s lawyer Ben Crump, a nationally renowned civil rights attorney. “The family is becoming increasingly frustrated with the lack of accountability.”

Sustained Cox spine and neck injuries — leaving him paralyzed — on Father’s Day while being driven to a police station in a van without seat belts after being arrested for weapons charges that prosecutors later dropped.

The injuries occurred when the New Haven Police Department officer behind the wheel stopped abruptly to avoid a car crash while speeding. Instead of waiting for an ambulance, the officer drove Cox to the police detention center. Officers then dragged Cox out of the van, processed him in a wheelchair, and put him into a holding cell – all without providing medical care. Cox repeatedly told the officers that he could not move while the officers brushed him off, telling him he “just drank too much.”

Crump said that the brutality