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Maya Yang

Black man left paralyzed after Texas police allegedly slam him on to concrete

Yellow police crime scene tape protects two police vehicles in the background.
Christopher Shaw was arrested in June 2021 and severely injured while in police custody, his lawyers claim. Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock

Lawyers of a Black Texas man and civil rights activists are calling for justice after he was allegedly grabbed and slammed on to concrete ground by police officers at a jail in Beaumont, Texas, leaving him paralyzed from the chest down.

On Wednesday, lawyers of 41-year-old Christopher Shaw hosted a press conference that called for justice for Shaw, who was severely injured while in custody in June 2021.

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