Video from police body cameras obtained by Denver7 on Friday shows the Sept. 16 incident of a train hitting a Colorado police patrol car with a woman in custody in the back seat.
The Fort Lupton Police Department released an edited eight-minute video of several officers’ and deputies’ body cameras who responded to the initial call and after the woman was hit by a train while handcuffed inside the police cruiser.
Video shows train hit Platteville police cruiser while suspect was inside Rios-Gonzalez, driving a pickup truck, pulls over on the other side of the train tracks just a few dozen feet down CR 36 from U.S. 85. Rios-Gonzalez tells the officers there are no weapons in the car and keeps asking what’s going on. She is put into the police cruiser that is directly over the tracks.
As officers are looking through the vehicle, they find a holster. One officer says multiple times that it took Rios-Gonzalez a very long time to pull over as they speculate whether Rios-Gonzalez tossed a weapon out of the truck. The video cuts again to another officer’s body camera, which is running toward the cruiser, which sustained severe damage to its passenger side. The video shows the curtain airbags deployed in the vehicle. There is debris scattered across the area.