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Shocking video footage shows the moment man was paralyzed during violent arrest

He suffered a fractured neck in the arrest, which left him paralyzed from the chest down

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A horrifying footage has been released showing the moment a MMA fighter was paralyzed during a violent arrest in Colorado.

Donovan Duran, 24, was arrested outside his father’s home in December in La Junta after the family called the police because he was drunk and disorderly, Daily Mail says.

The body camera footage shows him willingly being handcuffed and placed in a police cruiser. But, later it shows Duran is not responding after the two officers pull him out of the cruiser and put him in a wheelchair and his legs apparently are not moving.

Duran suffered a fractured neck in the arrest, which left him paralyzed from the chest down.

‘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.

The footage was released this week by the 16th Judicial District Attorney’s Office.

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A grand jury in April found there were no fileable charges against the officers involved in the incident. Although the jurors deemed them responsible for Duran’s injuries, they said that ‘cannot be the basis of any criminal charges’.

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