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Colorado city pays $3M to settle THAT police brutality lawsuit after laughing cops broke arm of dementia sufferer, 73, who forgot to pay for $13 of Walmart groceries
Daily Mail ^ | Sept. 8, 2021 | Christopher Eberhart

Posted on 09/08/2021 12:06:34 PM PDT by rickmichaels

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To: eyeamok

Colorado got rid of immunity. Cops can be sued.


21 posted on 09/08/2021 12:41:56 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: PghBaldy

Forgot link 14 min video https://youtu.be/SmtxTWTTdC4


22 posted on 09/08/2021 12:42:42 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: rickmichaels
Garner's family and Schielke called on the city to change the leadership of the police department and break up 'the good 'ol boys club' on the City Council.

Run for city council and replace them. Then you can oversee the police.

23 posted on 09/08/2021 12:46:40 PM PDT by Pollard (#*&% Communism)
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To: CodeToad

Then why are the Taxpayers Paying this Settlement?


24 posted on 09/08/2021 12:49:16 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: CodeToad
Weak. They capped the damages at $25k, defeating the point of liability. Nor does it end immunity, because Section 1983 claims filed by Coloradans in federal court would still be subject to qualified immunity. Only the U.S. Supreme Court or Congress has the power to alter or abolish qualified immunity in current doctrine.
25 posted on 09/08/2021 12:50:54 PM PDT by Theoria
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To: eyeamok

Taxpayers hired the morons.


26 posted on 09/08/2021 12:55:44 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: RideForever

Yes we do. Chapter 33 of the Colorado Revised Statutes. Anyone over 70 is considered to be automaticly an at risk elder.


27 posted on 09/08/2021 1:01:19 PM PDT by taxcontrol (You are entitled to your opinion, no matter how wrong it is.)
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To: PghBaldy

He used an atrocious level of force on a frail old woman but what was worse was when he was watching the bodycam footage and took pride in what he did and how he made her shoulder pop. The female officer at least seemed to have the grace to realize something was terrible wrong at that point because she was hiding her face under her hat and repeating “I hate this”.


28 posted on 09/08/2021 1:01:45 PM PDT by Flying Circus (God help us )
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To: eyeamok

Two of the officers were charged. Yes!


29 posted on 09/08/2021 1:01:53 PM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate other.)
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To: rickmichaels

There was no defense for this. To my revulsion there were freepers, one in particular, who defended the cops to the hilt because she broke a law. Excessive force? No such thing. Even when asked if it was okay of they snuffed her the answer was ‘she stole stuff didn’t she?’ It was unreal.


30 posted on 09/08/2021 1:03:20 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: rickmichaels

31 posted on 09/08/2021 1:04:29 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: pepsi_junkie

Such people immediately morph unto strict civil libertarians the instant the eyes of the police fall upon themselves.


32 posted on 09/08/2021 1:06:14 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: rickmichaels

I used to be kinda pro-cop. But I’m listening more and more to the ‘defund the cops’ movement. I myself was arrested for “resisting arrest”. Charges were horse manure and were dropped almost immediately but there’s still one manure charge left that I have to face: Vandalism by way of a car DRIVING OVER MY BICYCLE and leaving the scene.

Put me on the Civilian Oversight Board.


33 posted on 09/08/2021 2:05:52 PM PDT by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: algore

+1


34 posted on 09/08/2021 2:07:31 PM PDT by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: the_individual2014

Those bootlickers are becoming more and more scarce.


35 posted on 09/08/2021 2:08:43 PM PDT by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: rickmichaels

“crying out for help 51 times in the first hour.”

Every person who ignored the cries for help is officially unethical and lame.


36 posted on 09/08/2021 2:09:36 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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To: rickmichaels

Just as I suspected, Austin Hopp was romantically involved with Daria Jalali:

“After the lawsuit was filed, DailyMail.com exclusively revealed Hopp and Jalali’s romantic relationship at the end of April.”

Hopp was showing Jalali how macho he was in taking down a defenseless woman. If there was horse crap under her head, you know he would have ground the poor woman’s face in it.

His wife knew that he was a loose cannon:

“According to divorce documents, Hopp’s separated from his wife of six years on June 7. She filed for divorce on July 8”

I bet Jalali realized Hopp was a maggot once he wormed himself into her house:

“Around the time of Garner’s arrest, then-married Hopp moved into Jalali’s new home in Windsor, Colorado, where they lived together until mid-February when Hopp suddenly moved out.”

I bet Jalali thought Hopp’s behavior was a ego boost for her and that makes her as much at fault as Hopp in the treatment of Karen Garner. That pop in Garner’s shoulder was a metaphor for the pop in both Hopp and Jalali’s future.


37 posted on 09/08/2021 2:24:29 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: Falconspeed

<>Hopp and Jalali were heard on the department’s security camera admiring the ‘pop’ when Garner’s shoulder dislocated and seen fist bumping each other while Garner was locked up in a jail cell in pain just a few feet away. <>

Hang these two by their elbows behind their backs for a few hours to enjoy dislocated shoulders.


38 posted on 09/08/2021 2:31:29 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: rickmichaels

I tend to give police the benefit of the doubt. This is indefensible and those police officers should be severely dealt with.


39 posted on 09/08/2021 2:44:11 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: PghBaldy

“...and how they laughed during & after hurting her.”

Absolutely depraved.


40 posted on 09/08/2021 7:49:55 PM PDT by jocon307 (Dem party delenda est!)
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