SAN ANTONIO — A man beaten by three San Antonio Police officers last year is paralyzed from the chest down after complications during surgery to repair his injured spine, his family confirmed to the KENS 5 I-Team.

Roger Carlos, 43, was paralyzed during surgery November 3 at a San Antonio area hospital.

Doctors have performed multiple surgeries on Carlos’s neck and upper spine to relieve pain and pressure from herniated discs, following his May 2014 beating at the hands of two SAPD SWAT officers and a drug task force officer.

Carlos’s wife, Ronnie, told the I-Team Friday that a piece of bone broke off and compressed against his spinal cord during the Nov. 3 procedure.

“Its hard to see it, its hard to believe that something like this occurred over a mistaken identity. That is the hardest thing that has happened to us,” Ronnie Carlos said.

Last week, Roger was transported to a Houston rehabilitation hospital. Friday, hours after his wife sat down with the I-Team, Carlos underwent yet another surgery to relieve pressure on his spine.

Carlos has started to lose movement in his wrists and doctors are concerned it could lead to him having trouble breathing, according to a support page for the family.

“People need to stand up and say something about it. Just because a police officer has a right to do something like that based on a law that protects them, it’s not right, it’s not right,” Ronnie said.

The couple has three sons, all under the age of ten.

“Carelessness, just carelessness of these three officers, not realizing that they ruined his life,” Ronnie added.

The family has hired an attorney and plans to file a lawsuit against the city and SAPD. The family’s attorney did not respond to a request for comment.

According to SAPD reports previously released to the I-Team, prior to the beating, the three officers were pursuing a suspect in the 10600 block of Westover Hills Boulevard. The suspect was wanted on drug and weapons charges.

Instead they found Carlos, who has no criminal record and was using his phone to take pictures of his wife’s medical practice.

Carlos said during an interview last year he was struck about 50 times, even though he complied with the officers’ instructions and did not fight back.

Besides the neck injuries, Carlos suffered a broken tooth, a large gash above his eye and swelling of his skull. A recent CT scan also revealed a previously undiscovered brain aneurysm, according to Ronnie Carlos.

“It’s physically disabled him. It’s mentally disabled him. He still hasn’t since that day been able to get over this incident,” Ronnie said.

The suspect, Josue Rodriguez, was eventually taken into custody on charges ranging from evading arrest to possession of a prohibited firearm. Bexar County court records indicate Rodriguez was later found guilty of both charges.

A police discipline board recommended 15-day suspensions for all three officers. Chief William McManus, who did not respond to a request for interview Friday, later shortened each of the suspensions to five days.

Two of the officers, identified in suspension paperwork as Carlos Chavez and Virgilo Gonzalez, remain on the SWAT team, the city’s human resources department confirmed Friday.

The third officer has never publicly been identified, due to the confidential nature of his position. All three officers used accrued leave time instead of serving their suspensions.

Friends of the Carlos family have set up a Go Fund Me account to help cover some of Roger’s medical expenses.

Police in plainclothes shot a 15-year-old black boy in the back and hauled his Latino friend down to the precinct, without warning, while they were on their way to school, parents say in a $20 million federal complaint.

The teens and two friends had been on their way to school on Feb. 10, 2015, when they stopped in an alley near 10th and West Florence avenues, according to the complaint filed Wednesday.

It was about 7:45 a.m., and the teens were playing rap music while changing into their Alliance Renee & Meyer Luskin College-Ready Academy uniforms when detectives in plainclothes appeared.

“Without warning or identifying themselves,” the Los Angeles police officers “opened fired,” shooting them with at least three rounds of bullets, the complaint states.

Suing through his mother, Jamar Nicholson, 15, says he was hit once in the back with a 9mm bullet.

Jason Huerta, 17, who sued through his father, says the police “violently kicked and stomped … [on his] back and neck.”

Police arrested all the boys “as though they had committed a crime,” the complaint states.

Nicholson says his gunshot wound was bleeding profusely but that the officers left him sitting on the curb in handcuffs without getting him medical attention.

Once at the hospital, Nicholson was kept handcuffed to the gurney, according to the complaint.

Huerta meanwhile was hauled down to the 77th Precinct and kept for several hours without food and water.

Both boys say police interrogated them without reading them their Miranda rights.

Police also barred the boys from calling their parents, and they didn’t make the calls either.

Geraldine Nicholson says her son’s school called her to report the boy’s absence, but that police had deliberately lied to the school when they asked about the shooting.

Police told the school Jerome “was not involved in the shooting,” according to the complaint.

Nicholson’s attorney, John W. Harris, said in a news conference that the teens had not threatened anyone, but that police “shot first and asked questions later,” according to an article by the Los Angeles Times.

The LAPD told the Times that one of the teens was holding what officers thought was a gun when they fired on the group. They said the weapon turned out to be a toy gun with a bright orange tip at the end of the barrel to indicate it is a toy.

Nicholson and Huerta say “race was a substantial factor in the shooting.”

They note that Nicholson is black and Huerta is Mexican-American.

In addition to the city of Los Angeles, Nicholson and Huerta’s parents names as defendants police chief Charles Beck, commander Andrew Smith and officer Miguel Gutierrez, who fired the shot that struck Nicholson.

They seek punitive damages for discrimination, unreasonable search and seizure, false arrest and imprisonment, excessive force, assault and battery, and other charges.

The Los Angeles Police Department declined to comment.