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 ...
“To my revulsion there were freepers...who defended the cops to the hilt...”
Oh yeah, there was the one person who said something along the lines of the woman could have been a crackhead.
And I said it’s not OK to do that to a crackhead either.
Absolutely horrible.
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