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Cops Tackled a Grandma With Dementia Picking Flowers, Bodycam Footage Shows
Vice.com ^ | 4/16/2021 | Emma Ockerman

Posted on 04/21/2021 1:32:55 PM PDT by simpson96

A 73-year-old grandmother of nine was picking wildflowers on the side of the road in Loveland, Colorado, last summer when a local cop got out of his patrol vehicle and told her to stop—beginning a police encounter that ultimately left her with broken bones, bruised, and traumatized.

Loveland Police Officer Austin Hopp had been driving behind Karen Garner with his overhead lights on because she was accused of shoplifting from a nearby Walmart. But Garner did not appear to notice, according to body camera footage published by Garner’s attorney Wednesday.

Garner has dementia and sensory aphasia, an inability to understand spoken and written speech, according to a federal civil rights lawsuit filed on her behalf this week against the city of Loveland and three officers involved in Garner’s arrest.

Hopp asked Garner why she didn’t stop after he activated his lights and siren, at which point Garner gave him a blank expression, said something unintelligible, and started to move away.

“No, no, no,” Hopp said, according to bodycam footage.

Hopp then grabbed the 80-pound woman, threw her to the grass, and twisted her arms behind her back, bodycam footage shows. Garner was still clutching a handful of wildflowers. A second cop, Daria Jalali, arrived within minutes and assisted in the arrest.

Then, despite Garner’s evident distress and small stature, Hopp pushed her left arm “painfully upward,” according to body camera footage and the lawsuit. Police repeatedly threw her on the ground, and hog-tied her on the side of the road—a controversial restraint that’s been banned by some police departments.(snip)

“I’m going home,” Garner cried repeatedly.

As a result of the incident, Garner was left with a dislocated shoulder, a fractured humerus bone, and a sprained wrist, the lawsuit alleges. She was covered with bruises by the time she arrived at

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To: smalltownslick

Wrangler Jane: “...right after dinner Randolph’s taking me to pick wildflowers”

Captain Parmenter: “you’re going to pick wildflowers...at night?”

Agarn: “yes...that’s what makes it...so wild”


121 posted on 04/21/2021 5:54:42 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: Chainmail

I would have agreed with you 20 years ago. But now that gay relationships are a thing in the military, the same issues are at play and so defeat the original argument that men would be ‘distracted’ by an intimate partner since intimate partners on the battlefield nowadays are more likely to be of the male persuasion (who, because of hatred of women in general, would be less likely to want to help a woman soldier) with women left wondering if their back really is covered.


122 posted on 04/21/2021 6:01:51 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: blueplum
I didn't mention gays but I am against having them in our units for nearly the same reasons that I am against having women in combat units.

In many ways gays are worse; since they are almost always not monogamous, you end up with multiple gay partners within and across units, services, command levels. They end up being loyal to each other above the unit.

I spent part of my career investigating misbehavior and some of those investigations involved gays and the kid of corruption where certain people were promoted, assigned to the better assignments, given awards if they played along and others discriminated against if they didn't play along.

Any kind of sexual connection is destructive to trust and unit cohesion and will cause us to lose more people and maybe wars too.

123 posted on 04/21/2021 6:18:09 PM PDT by Chainmail (Remember - that half the people you meet are below average intelligence)
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To: simpson96

Some cops are monsters. It’s a fact of life. These cops are monsters and scum.


124 posted on 04/26/2021 1:23:46 PM PDT by vespa300
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