Posted on 04/26/2021 1:08:27 PM PDT by Red Badger
“Ready for the pop? Here comes the pop.”
The quote above is from a Loveland Police officer – Austin Hopp – said in reference to the sound it made when he dislocated and fractured Karen Garner’s shoulder. Hopp made this comment to two fellow Loveland Police officers while they watched his body camera video together at the police station. They all laughed about it. The comment was made while Karen Garner, who has dementia, remained handcuffed to a bench in a cell just 10 feet away from them, alone, confused and crying in pain. She would ultimately go over six hours without any medical attention.
This horrific statement comes to light after Ms. Garner’s family hired a sound engineer to enhance the audio on Loveland Police station booking videos from the day of Karen’s arrest. The video reveals a grotesque culture of callous disregard for the health and safety of citizens. The officers fist-bump one another multiple times in self-congratulation for both the assault on Garner and the intimidation of the citizen who attempted to complain about it.
In an April 26, 2021 press release responding to the revelations seen in this video, Ms. Garner’s attorney, Sarah Schielke of The Life & Liberty Law Office states: “This is utterly disgusting. These videos cannot be unseen or unheard. I am sorry to have to share them with the public. This will be traumatic and deeply upsetting for everyone to see. But as it often goes with bad police departments, it seems this is the only way to make them change. They have to be exposed. If I didn’t release this, the Loveland Police’s toxic culture of arrogance and entitlement, along with their abuse of the vulnerable and powerless, would carry on, business as usual. I won’t be a part of that.”
“Loveland knew. They’ve known all along,” Schielke continues. “They failed Karen Garner. They failed the community. And they did it all on camera. Do you realize how horrifying that is? That means they were used to getting away with it. That the comfortable norm in Loveland is one of zero accountability. That this is not just some ‘isolated incident.’ It is not just one single ‘problem.’ It is widespread, sociopathic criminality. And to attempt to shift the burden to Karen, or a bystander, or her family, or counsel, to report this? Shame on you, Loveland. You took an oath to protect and serve. This is a disgrace.”
Since filing a federal lawsuit against the City of Loveland and three of its officers on April 14, 2021, the Loveland Police Department’s gruesome arrest and abuse of 73-year-old grandmother Karen Garner has horrified the country, making national headlines (New York Times, Washington Post, CBS News, NBC News, CNN, Newsweek, The Guardian, Vice). The 8th Judicial District Attorney’s office, in conjunction with the FBI and Fort Collins Police, has since opened a criminal investigation into the Loveland Police.
Meanwhile, the City of Loveland has vowed to protect the “due process” rights of its officers, with Chief Robert Ticer putting one officer on administrative leave (Hopp) and “reassigning” the other two officers (Sergeant Metzler and Officer Jalali) to “administrative duties” (desk duty) until the various investigations are completed. To date, the City has yet to extend any apology to Ms. Garner or her family for the various atrocities witnessed on these videos.
https://www.reporterherald.com/2021/04/26/new-information-released-on-karen-garner-incident-officers-seen-laughing-over-her-arrest-in-newly-released-video/
And that stupid female cop. The male cop tells her she’s tough for handling a 73-year-old woman with dementia?
Three cops handcuff and hogtie a little old lady with dementia while she’s picking wildflowers, and then they laugh about it. Sickening.
In the video the cop admits no one read her Miranda rights!!!
They were too busy breaking her arm and dislocating her shoulder.
The female was the worst.
One time I went to Sam’s Club with my mother (who had dementia) and her husband. We separated at the front door; I went one way with a cart, and the two of them went another. Silly me, I assumed mom and her husband would stay together. Nope ... he left her to go look at automotive stuff. She apparently wandered through the store, filling up her cart with random items. As I was heading toward the cashiers with my own cart, I saw this commotion going on at the front door with police, store personnel and my mother. She was headed out the door with the full cart, having not bothered to pay for any of it. Her husband was nowhere to be found. I finally convinced the police and store people that she was not in her right mind (which they could easily see after they had talked to her). They let her go, but insisted that she pay for all the contents of the cart. No problem, I went through the checkout (with her in tow) and bought the stuff. Husband caught up with us shortly thereafter. I was grateful that the people could see mom was not mentally complete as she had started to get belligerent when I got there. It could have been really ugly.
You don’t have to be professional to see when the woman faces the cop from her facial expression she us very confused and repeating I’m going home she has mental issues.
Racism is NOT the issue, it’s complete (bad words coming) power-tripping f-tards with g_d complexes and the attitude that no matter wht, YOU ARE THE ENEMY, and undoubtedly guilty.
Butt-bandits like this are the complete reason trust has been lost between the public and the police. THEY started it, but we hold the purse, and WILL end it.
Wow. I’m glad you were there for your mother.
If only this lady had someone with her.
Cops have been demonized for years now. Cops are not supported by the city politicians who cater to thugs and criminals more then cops. No ‘good’ people would be cops in today’s climate. The worst of the worst are hired because no one else wants the jobs. And here we see what it gets us.
Thank God you were there.
How in the world don’t the psychopaths get weeded out at the academy or in the hiring process after completing academy?
There’s a reason firefighters don’t trust cops either
Exactly. She so obviously had dementia. It looked like the cops just wanted to have some fun arresting someone and going completely overboard with it. Almost as if they figured she was senile and wouldn’t remember and then they’d get away with it. One cop admitted he never even read her the Miranda rights.
Opened my eyes to socialism / communism.
Must have been a slow day and they were bored. Let’s go have some fun.
Cops so dumb as to forget they are being video at stAtion house and all they say recorded.
Nope.
Thanks for pinging Nully.
Be patient. They will be here.
The Walmart employees didn’t need handcuffs and hogties to stop her from leaving the store, but the big, tough cops needed handcuffs and hogties.
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