Body camera footage shows a La Junta police sergeant forcefully yanking a handcuffed man out of a department sports utility vehicle onto his head in an encounter last year that left him paralyzed.

“I stopped! I stopped!” Donovan Duran moans as the sergeant then grabs his neck.

“Get up!” an officer can be heard yelling as Duran lies on the asphalt outside the Arkansas Valley Medical Center.

The sergeant, Vince Fraker, and another officer then drag Donovan to the hospital’s emergency entrance. The video shows Fraker retrieving a wheelchair in which they place Duran, who immediately slumps over his knees motionless.

Fraker then grabs Duran’s shoulder and forces him upright, grasping his neck to keep him in place as they wheel him into the hospital where he is moved to a bed and restrained.

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The grand jurors wrote in a report that while Fraker was responsible for Duran’s injuries — a fractured neck that left him paralyzed from his nipples down — when he rolled him out of a La Junta police SUV, it “cannot be the basis of any criminal charges.”

The grand jury, however, called Duran’s injuries “tragic.”

The jurors’ report and body camera footage show that before he was injured, Duran was ordered out of the police SUV but did not comply, saying “Don’t touch me.” He then put his handcuffed hands behind his knees in an apparent attempt to slip his handcuffs in front of him, at which point Fraker rolled him out and onto the ground head-first.

Duran, 25, an aspiring mixed martial arts fighter, had told The Post that the two officers attacked him Dec. 7, fracturing his neck and leaving him without feeling below his upper chest.

Duran was never charged in the encounter. He was picked up by police after family members said they called authorities throughout the day to report him being drunk and in need of help.

Duran’s encounter with La Junta police was at least his third over a four-day span. His family said he had been taken to the hospital at least twice by officers — once from the nearby town of Rocky Ford — in the days before he was paralyzed.

His parents say they had repeatedly called authorities because he was drinking vodka and acting paranoid. He was released the other two times, family members said, after police explained there was no charge on which to hold him.

The body camera footage shows Fraker was audibly frustrated by dealing with Duran while explaining the situation to a doctor at Arkansas Valley Medical Center.

Duran’s attorneys filed a federal lawsuit Monday in Denver against the city of La Junta and Fraker seeking unspecified damages for Duran’s injuries.

“La Junta Police Department training of officers does not include proper training in responding to calls involving persons in crisis or with obvious mental health problems, including use of force policies and de-escalation strategies,” the lawsuit says.

The filing also adds: “Fraker’s use of excessive force as described above herein was outrageous and shocking to the conscience, in violation of Duran’s substantive due process rights.”

Bill Jackson, who oversees La Junta’s public safety department, said Tuesday an internal investigation into the encounter is still in the process of being completed by an outside agency.