City denies responsibility for police-involved moped crash of Jhamal Gonsalves
The City of Providence is denying responsibility for a police-involved moped crash that left a 24-year-old in a coma last year.
In a motion filed Monday in U.S. District Court, the city along with Public Safety Commissioner Steven Paré and Police Chief Hugh T. Clements Jr. rejected allegations that Paré and Clements behaved “with reckless disregard and deliberate indifference in hiring, screening and training” Officers Kyle Endres and Brad McParlin.
Both officers were involved in the October incident in which Jhamal Gonsalves sustained a traumatic brain injury after being thrown from his moped. The motion also refutes claims that Paré and Clements neglected to provide the officers with “adequate training, education and discipline.” Rather than wading into whether the officers were culpable, the motion denies that the city, Paré and Clements are at fault.
Guardians of a Rhode Island moped driver who was sent into a coma with a head injury after he crashed while being followed closely by a Providence police