HORROR: Bodycam Footage of 73-Year-Old Woman with Dementia Being Manhandled by Colorado Police For Trying to Shoplift $13 Worth of Items From Walmart Released

Gateway Pundit ^ | 04/26/2021 | Cristina Laila

[SeekAndFind]

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Loveland, Colorado – Horrifying bodycam video released recently shows two Colorado police officers manhandling a 73-year-old woman with dementia after she tried to shoplift $13 worth of groceries from a Walmart last June.

Karen Garner, 73, only weighs 80 pounds but she was manhandled and body-slammed by police officers, causing her to fracture her elbow and dislocate her arm.

Officers Austin Hopp and Daria Jalali arrested Garner on June 26, 2020 after she walked out of a Walmart with a candy bar, a can of Pepsi and a t-shirt without paying.

Walmart recovered the items and did not lose any money.

Police officer Hopp is seen approaching a visibly confused Garner as she was walking home from Walmart by herself.

Moments later, the officer slams Garner to the ground and cuffs her as she screams, “I’m going home!”

VIDEO (disturbing content):

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Attorney Sarah Schielke on Monday filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of the Garner family nearly one year after the violent arrest.

Colorado prosecutors opened a criminal investigation into the two officers and their supervisor after video of the arrest went viral on social media and sparked outrage.

New video released by the attorney for Karen Garner’s family shows officers laughing and fist-bumping over video of Garner sitting in her cell crying in pain from her injuries.

‘Ready for the pop?’ Hopp said referring to Garner’s arm dislocating.

When an unnamed officer asked, “What popped?” Hopp replied: “I think it was her shoulder.”

“I can’t believe I threw a 73-year-old on the ground,” Hopp said.

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[gcparent]

God help you for your lack of compassion.

[algore]

” what year is it. Who is president. Who is your senator. What year was your child born. I heard doctors asking this.”

I might have trouble with these too, not good with doctors either

[gcparent]

Well, they asked my dad those questions in front of me.

[caww]

Compassion isn’t a qualification when arresting a criminal.

[caww]

I’m sick and tired of people getting softer on crime at every turn these days and opposing police.....I will proudly defend the police....she is a thief...and she took ‘merchandise’ she didn’t pay for...that is theft. It doesn’t matter if YOU see it as junk or does it lessen her crime.

Yes..you’re wasting your breath defending criminal activity with me.

[Retrofitted]

This is the sick part:

"According to the lawsuit, Garner spent two hours inside a Loveland Police jail cell and an additional three hours inside a cell at the Larimer County Jail."

"Schielke said the arresting officers told the Larimer County Jail staff that Garner was uninjured despite obvious signs that she had painful injuries."

So, they were laughing about injuring her, then said she wasn't injured, and didn't get her medical treatment for five hours.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Compassion isn’t a qualification when arresting a criminal.

It will be soon.

[Dilbert San Diego]

LOL..

I’m not defending anything. I simply asked you a question.

[gcparent]

It’s excessive force. Try defending that. And abusing an elderly person causing broken bones may be a felony in CO.

[Blue Jays]

"...bUt tHe eLdErLy lAdY wItH dEMeNtIa iS sTiLl a tHiEf aNd mUSt bE hAlTeD..."

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Thank you for your words of sanity. Some of the holster-sniffing people on this thread (supporting the violence of these officers) give patriotic FReepers a bad name.

Absolutely concur that police officers should have recognized the dementia within seconds of encountering the elderly woman at roadside. Beyond that...the woman was eighty pounds and the officers could easily have given her life-threatening injuries.

[Third Wheel]

Oops. My apologies

[TigersEye]

Living just 25 miles from there and having cared for my mother for 10 years, who had Alzheimer’s, this is absolutely infuriating. Do these cops have no concept that not all people are the same? Not to mention how hard it appeared to be to wrestle an 80 lb. 73 yr old woman into handcuffs and then out of them. They’d need five more officers to handle a cranky 90 lb. 63 yr old woman.

[TigersEye]

Spot on! He didn’t even try to talk to her. It’s not like she was going to sprint away or suddenly slug him ... putting all 80 pounds of herself into it.

[airplaneguy]

Read up on the Nuremberg trials. Just following orders doesnt cut it.

[GaryCrow]

I will defend the police any time every day......if you;ve committed a crime and resisting an officer YOU are in the wrong ..period............. officers have to make split second decisions regarding any criminal today....age doesn't mean you're not a risk to their safety nor others.

You're a pretty messed up individual.

[edweena]

“I don’t care what condition she was in....if she’s out and about stealing she’s still committing a crime.”

No, she hadn’t been convicted of committing a crime. She had been accused of committing a crime. An accusation can be made accurately, but it can also be made out of malice, or out of a genuine case of mistaken identity. In this case it will be found that the accused can’t commit a crime due to mental incapacity. Judges and juries decide who committed a crime, based on evidence. Police are supposed to use judgment in arresting those accused of crimes, as well as handling the dangers posed by potential criminal activity they witness, preferably by de-escalating. These police officers accomplished nothing for those they claim to serve except for creating more distrust of the police force.

[gcparent]

DA dismissed the charges against her.

[BlueHorseShoe]

I agree with your post. I’m posting these other videos here and I suggest the nasty person I refuse to address here will watch. He’s obviously dug in and can’t see the horror of this abuse to a frail scared woman who is suffering dementia.

Tell me, anyone, how you can watch this and think it was ok. Btw it was reported that besides dislocating her shoulder they broke her elbow.

More videos…need to watch:
https://twitter.com/jackposobiec/status/1386797176358060042?s=21

https://twitter.com/jackposobiec/status/1386797925167157250?s=21

https://twitter.com/jackposobiec/status/1386798892432375808?s=21

[lapsus calami]

 

 

this suspect profile. When I was in grocery business, Some of the worst were over 50 and many would throw produce on the floor and try to slip on it to sue the store.

 

No kidding. I have a story for you. I was checking out at a store several years back and as my stuff went down to the end of the conveyor belt the lady that was ahead of me snatched some of it up into her basket and took off towards the exit. I caught that and cancelled the transaction right then and there. Now it became a matter of stealing from the store, not me. I followed her out to the parking lot to give her a good scare. Stood in the aisle, not too close, and projected a silent, icy I-know-what-you-did vibe stare at her. She most certainly knew what she did since she was tossing the stuff out of the basket into her vehicle as fast as she could before she even spotted me. She jumped in and sped off like fleeing the scene of a bank robbery. That was a WTF incident - this was a well-dressed bejeweled white lady in her 60's driving a brand new Cadillac SUV. And a brazen klepto. I didn't see much point in escalating a stink about it. She had the airs of being a wife to a local bigshot, like a bank exec, doctor or something. I didn't want to get into a my word against hers game over that. She keeps that up she'll run out of luck in due time anyway.