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.
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The Supreme Court created “qualified Immunity” out of thin air, when that ends, these assholes will stop when it is thier ass on the hook!!
This is not going to play well in Loveland. In the 70s it was a very conservative town. Then Fort Collins aspired to be like Boulder, and that has spread to Loveland next door. It’s sad.
It’s a start.
Hopefully those pigs suffer a group stomping.
Those two asshole cops should go to jail for a long time.
The cops should be forced to pay it off it work camps.
“Those two asshole cops should go to jail for a long time.”
But they will not.
Seriously, if fines can be double in school zones than sentences for cops doing illegal stuff should also be double.
I’d like to see how “tough” little Austin Hopp and Daria Jalali get with the garden variety “POC” shop lifters at the Walmarts in the big cities.
No wonder they won’t stop antifa mayhem - they’re too busy beating up old women.
Was it Biden?
Be careful the pro law and order/ police FReepers will come after you.
Not enough and not nearly enough from the cops. I’m thinking servitude and a cell.
Agreed. Considering the power granted to Cops to do their job, they should be held to a higher standard. Of course one of the problems is the kind of people that are allowed to become cops today, I don’t think the standards are as high as they once were.
They may still have a suit for elder abuse, if Colorado has those laws available. The article didn’t mention the topic.
I like that, no mercy for thugs regardless if they are from the hood, trailer parks or in a police department.
As it should be.
“A man’s got to have a code.”
I just watched this video of the “highlights” of what they did to her, and how they laughed during & after hurting her. They misnamed that town.
# The cops should be forced to pay it off it work camps.
Unfortunately, the taxpayers will foot the bills. The cops won’t lose a dime of their pension or pay.
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