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Heriberto Sanchez-Mayen is seen after an incident with St. Petersburg police that a lawsuit says left him paralyzed and without both legs.
The man wasn’t secured to a seat in a police van, and a sudden stop damaged his cervical spine, the lawsuit says.
“The LGBTQ community in Hillsborough County should be in fear of Mr. Radford,” a prosecutor said.
Christopher Howell, a sheriff’s deputy, shot and killed Paul Smith, 40. Authorities are investigating the Saturday shooting.
“If I’m so celebrated, why can’t they right this historic wrong?” said Rufus Lewis, fighting for his police pension since 1983.

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  2. Heriberto Sanchez-Mayen is seen after an incident with St. Petersburg police that a lawsuit says left him paralyzed and without both legs.
  3. Gerald Declan Radford arrives for a hearing at the Hillsborough County courthouse in Tampa on Monday.
  4. Retired Tampa police officer Rufus Lewis, a member of the Fearless Four, and his wife, Clara Lewis, leave the Tampa Police Department headquarters in downtown last month.
  5. Paul Smith, who was killed by a sheriff's deputy Saturday, shown just before the fatal incident on body camera footage. Courtesy of Pasco Sheriff's Office.
  6. Police surround a home in Trenton, N.J., Saturday, March 16, 2024. A suspect has barricaded himself in the home and was holding hostages after shooting three people to death in suburban Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
  7. A Tallahassee Police Department officer blocks off a section of Mahan Drive in Tallahassee, on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023.
  8. Monika Hladik is accused of stealing more than $700,000 from the Palm Harbor eyewear manufacturing business where she worked as an accountant for 12 years, deputies said.
  9. Rioters wave flags on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. Federal prosecutors say a network of supporters has helped fugitives from Florida avoid capture to face charges stemming from the riot. Prosecutors argued Thursday that a Jan. 6 defendant, Thomas Osborne, is a flight risk because he is close to the family of a brother and sister from Lakeland who remained on the run for months after they were charged with storming the Capitol.
  10. A man rides his motorcycle along the intersection of Northeast First Street and Northeast Second Avenue in Delray Beach on Feb. 12. A Clearwater man was arrested last month after police say he defaced the mural by doing burnouts on it with his truck.
  11. This screenshot of a video posted on Facebook by the Volusia County Sheriff's Office shows a motorcyclist leading deputies on a high-speed chase Tuesday. The sheriff's office said the biker reached estimated speeds of 145 mph and had a "WILL RUN" license plate.
  12. Kevin Sumlin was arrested on a DUI complaint in Hillsborough County in October. He pleaded no contest to a lesser charge this week.
  13. Rifet Redzic was arrested on a charge of first-degree murder Wednesday after Pinellas County deputies say he stabbed his girlfriend multiple times.
  14. Rioters stand on the U.S. Capitol building to protest the election of President Joe Biden on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Federal officials say a Broward County man took to TikTok to report that he “HAD A BLAST” storming the U.S. Capitol with his partner on Jan. 6.
  15. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an accidental shooting that occurred Tuesday night on the Upper Tampa Bay Trail. Deputies say a teenage boy accidentally shot himself in the head.
  16. Noel Michelle Savoy was arrested Tuesday after police say she abused five children at the Clearwater preschool where she worked.
  17. Gerald Declan Radford appears in a jail booking photo taken Friday after his arrest on a second-degree murder charge in the death of John Walter Lay.
  18. A screenshot from surveillance video released by the Tampa Police Department on Monday shows a person who detectives believe is the suspect in the homicide of Rebecca Couture on March 4 on the 5700 block of North Nebraska Avenue.
  19. Former Pinellas-Pasco Public Defender Bob Dillinger has died at 72, a spokesperson for the office said Monday. In this photo, Dillinger sits for a portrait, on Dec. 15, 2020, in Clearwater shortly before he retired.
  20. Hillsborough deputies were investigating the fatal shooting of a Bloomingdale man early Monday.
  21. A photo from the St. Petersburg Police Department shows the Toyota Corolla that police said Owen Whittaker was driving on Dec. 9 when he ran a red light at the corner of Fourth Street North and 72nd Avenue North and caused the crash that killed a pedestrian and bicyclist. Whittaker will not face criminal charges in the crash.
  22. Inmate William Thomas "Tommy" Zeigler, photographed on Florida's Death Row in Union Correctional Institution, Raiford, Fla. on June 21, 2018. Zeigler  was convicted of the murders of his wife, in-laws and another man in his furniture store on Christmas Eve in 1975 in Winter Garden, Fla.
Since Zeigler's 1976 conviction, a steady stream of exculpatory evidence has surfaced, revealing a shoddy investigation, prosecutorial and judicial misconduct, including witness recantations and evidence tampering, and new suspects, which cast doubt on the validity of the original investigation, the trial, his conviction and his guilt.
  23. Gerald Declan Radford appears in a jail booking photo taken Friday after his arrest on a second-degree murder charge.
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