After Police Review, No Charges Filed Against Former Dallas Paramedic Who Kicked Mentally Ill Man
The Dallas Police Department has concluded its review of a public integrity investigation that cleared a former Dallas Fire-Rescue paramedic of any wrongdoing during an incident in which kicked a mentally ill man in 2019.
The man’s family hoped the review would garner a new result. But DPD told the Observer that no charges would be filed against the former paramedic, a trained mixed-martial artist named Brad Cox.
The man on the receiving end of the paramedic’s blows was Kyle Vess, who suffers from a mental illness similar to schizophrenia.
One day in August 2019, DFR was responding to calls about grass fires along a service road in West Dallas. When they got there, Vess was lying near a patch of grass that was apparently burned.
This was captured by a surveillance camera in the area. Cox approached and began stomping out the grass. Later in the video, Vess can be seen standing up, taking a swing at Cox and throwing a piece of PVC pipe at the paramedic. Vess then falls to the ground, and Cox kicks him repeatedly.
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