Posted on 09/08/2021 12:06:34 PM PDT by rickmichaels
A Colorado city paid $3million to settle a federal police brutality lawsuit involving a 73-year-old woman with dementia, who was beaten during an arrest and left in lockup for six hours without medical care.
The elderly woman, Karen Garner, was arrested by now-former Loveland Police Officers Austin Hopp, 26, and Daria Jalali, 27, on June 26, 2020 after she inadvertently left Walmart without paying for $13 worth of items.
They were seen in bodycam footage slamming Garner to the ground and twisting her arm, which resulted in a fractured elbow and dislocated arm, according to a federal lawsuit filed in April.
Garner was left in a jail cell for more than six hours and is seen in security footage from the cell crying out for help 51 times in the first hour alone.
The settlement was announced Wednesday morning and is nearly finalized.
'This is justice for mom,' Allisa Swartz said while fighting back tears during a Wednesday press conference.
Shannon Steward, Garner's daughter-in-law, said this incident was 'the lowest form of human behavior and indecency, particularly by people who should be respected and know how to show respect.'
Swartz, Steward and their family lawyer Sarah Schielke sent direct shots at the Loveland Police Department, including a renewed call for Police Chief Bob Ticer to step down.
'I'm hoping this dollar amount makes them realize that they need to make changes in that department, and we're not playing around,' Swartz said. 'It needs to stop.'
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Colorado got rid of immunity. Cops can be sued.
Forgot link 14 min video https://youtu.be/SmtxTWTTdC4
Run for city council and replace them. Then you can oversee the police.
Then why are the Taxpayers Paying this Settlement?
Taxpayers hired the morons.
Yes we do. Chapter 33 of the Colorado Revised Statutes. Anyone over 70 is considered to be automaticly an at risk elder.
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”.
Two of the officers were charged. Yes!
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.
Such people immediately morph unto strict civil libertarians the instant the eyes of the police fall upon themselves.
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.
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Those bootlickers are becoming more and more scarce.
“crying out for help 51 times in the first hour.”
Every person who ignored the cries for help is officially unethical and lame.
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.
<>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.
I tend to give police the benefit of the doubt. This is indefensible and those police officers should be severely dealt with.
“...and how they laughed during & after hurting her.”
Absolutely depraved.
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