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Colorado cops LAUGH about breaking arm and dislocating shoulder of dementia-suffering woman
Daily Mail ^ | April 26 | By MEGAN SHEETS

Posted on 04/26/2021 2:43:06 PM PDT by RandFan

Shocking new video shows two Colorado cops under investigation for their violent arrest of an elderly women with dementia laughing and cheering - and giving each other a fist bump - as they watched body-camera footage of the altercation hours later.

They were celebrating all while the 73-year-old woman was suffering in a jail cell, the photos reveal - disheveled and seeming to lose consciousness several times.

Loveland Police Officers Austin Hopp and Daria Jalali arrested Karen Garner on June 26, 2020, after she left Walmart without paying for a candy bar, a can of Pepsi and a t-shirt totaling $13.38.

City officials haven't apologized to the woman or her family, according to the Loveland Reporter-Herald. The footage of the arrest went viral on social media after its release earlier the month in the wake of a new lawsuit against the department.

The suit says during the first hour Garner was in custody, she said: 'They hurt my shoulders' 22 times and 'They hurt my wrists' 13 times. She wasn't given any medical treatment.

A statement from the attorney representing Garner in a federal civil rights lawsuit against the department said supervising officer, Sgt. Phil Metzler, who also is under investigation, knew Garner was injured and allowed her to be kept in a holding pen with no care.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: badcops; dementia; karengarner; policeabuse; policebrutality
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To: RandFan

The video is disturbing. That’s something you’d expect from someone who tortures small animals. That cop has some real issues. And it seems he wasn’t smart enough to understand they were being recorded.


141 posted on 04/26/2021 7:37:57 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Rebelbase

“And it probably takes two weeks to a month to kill you.”
__________________________________

That is what makes that particular death sentence so miserable.


142 posted on 04/26/2021 7:49:03 PM PDT by Notthereyet (We're so angry we can spit pea pellets at a tree and drill the dang tree. )
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To: jocon307

Sorry if I offended.


143 posted on 04/26/2021 8:28:57 PM PDT by piytar (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit!)
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To: dainbramaged
If some goon with a badge did that to a loved one of mine, I would be hard pressed not to go medieval on their ass.

They'd be dead men walking. You have to be smart about how to take them out. Right now, with all the mask shit, antifa, and BLM, it's be easy.

144 posted on 04/26/2021 9:00:22 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: rxsid

I usually support the police.

It was pretty clear from the way she was acting that she had significant cognitive impairment.

Wandering dementia patients is not an uncommon issue that the police have to deal with.


145 posted on 04/26/2021 9:01:39 PM PDT by consult
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To: shotgun
The settlement will be 100,000 times the value of the stolen items. LEO have a duty to provide medical assistance.

They have a moral duty, but have no legal obligation to do anything at all.

146 posted on 04/26/2021 9:02:38 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: piytar; humblegunner

Rumor has it she’s a freeloading blogger too...


147 posted on 04/26/2021 9:03:12 PM PDT by wardaddy (P IN 1999 JIM THOMPSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BUSHES ...WE WERE WRONG lz’’z:s)
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To: thegagline

Daily mail is pretty accurate

Posts non woke stories out faux media ignores


148 posted on 04/26/2021 9:04:09 PM PDT by wardaddy (P IN 1999 JIM THOMPSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BUSHES ...WE WERE WRONG lz’’z:s)
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To: humblegunner

Lol....Made me chuckle in a sick way....

Remember the old poster “tuco bad”?

First thing I thought

Humblegunner bad...lol


149 posted on 04/26/2021 9:06:21 PM PDT by wardaddy (P IN 1999 JIM THOMPSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BUSHES ...WE WERE WRONG lz’’z:s)
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To: humblegunner

Omg....you’re on a roll

I’m going to wake my rib up reading this exchange laughing out loud

I swunny


150 posted on 04/26/2021 9:07:46 PM PDT by wardaddy (P IN 1999 JIM THOMPSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BUSHES ...WE WERE WRONG lz’’z:s)
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To: Codeflier
Do not feed Humblegunner. He feasts on working people up.LOL.

Indeed. His shitposting is in rare form tonight.

151 posted on 04/26/2021 9:11:57 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: Romulus

Free Republic is not known for empathy
This thread abounds with it surprisingly

Dementia strokes a chord here.....the lost one


152 posted on 04/26/2021 9:15:00 PM PDT by wardaddy (P IN 1999 JIM THOMPSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BUSHES ...WE WERE WRONG lz’’z:s)
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To: algore
one of my friends thinks that 99% of all women should not be cops, but he is biased cause his woman partner shot him in the back of the head. (it just grazed him, or he would not even have an opinion)

I can kinda see why he might feel that way.

153 posted on 04/26/2021 9:17:03 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: RandFan

I have been here for more years(20+) than my Current date. I have never been a fan of the average city cop. I am impressed in my county sheriff. Other than that it’s brutal revenue collection. No need for them until they reform. This is a perfect example. Speed traps on Christmas Day, busting balls on meaningless taxpayers (btw they know who the criminals are but “revenue” is critical).

Police need to decide who they work for, what they work for and what they work for. 90% of the public would stand with them If they reform. Unless they do 20% will hate 75% will be Indifferent and 5% connected will support. Sad but true. I am in the income, demographic, ... that statistically should be either interference or pro yet I dislike and see limited value. When u lose my law abiding 80 year old mother - rethink you approach, values and purpose. Sad.


154 posted on 04/26/2021 9:19:09 PM PDT by wgmalabama (Tag line for rent. )
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To: RandFan

OfficerMarquedeSade had situational awareness - He had more than enough time to ascertain he was dealing with someone ‘off’. It’s a given in life that 100% of the time an elderly person goes ‘off’ it generally signals a medical condition or emergency of some variety. He couldn’t have known she had lost the ability to understand speech, but she was definitely acting deaf and confused to the spoken word. At that point, warrior should have shifted to guardian. EMS should have been called while he rode herd on her for the 6 minute wait, instead of spending that time practicing his WWF skills on a 80lb weakling, with OfficerWonderWoman, who also missed the obvious in her haste to practice technique over humanity, assisting in the Folsom Prison smackdown.

We trust our police to protect us, but we also trust them to be able to judge a person’s behavior, to ‘read’ them, with a degree of skill, same as we expect teachers or bosses, or bus drivers or stewardesses, detectives and doormen, caregivers or doctors, or anyone else we allow in a front-line position of one-on-one contact with another person. Americans are treated like this lady in third-world nations every day. We see the same type of brute violence towards the elderly in nursing homes here at home and towards our children in schools and daycares. We’re better than that. Our police strive to better than that. These two weren’t. They simply don’t have the right stuff. Time for them to admit it and ring the bell. And OfficerThirdEye? He needs about 1000 hours of community service in a nursing home for not decking the first two idiots.


155 posted on 04/26/2021 9:45:21 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: consult
Expecting any LEO to be able to accurately diagnose dementia on scene is absurd. Talk about arm chair quarterbacking! Hindsight is an amazing thing when you have it.

Being in the moment, when your life is constantly on the line, very little is "pretty clear" about someone's medical condition aside from obvious external trauma. Yeah, that person has a missing arm. Pretty easy to diagnose that.

She could have been on drugs.

She could have been acting. Some people are very good at faking things. Again, difficult to 100% definitively say on the scene.

LEO encounters every walk of life and then some. Sometimes they believe a person is one thing, and it turns out they are something else in a matter of minutes (or even seconds).

Law enforcement isn't in a position to diagnose people and their condition. They don't have the training, and almost always don't have the time.

People should not expect law enforcement to also be clinicians who can diagnose someone's condition.

That being said, the way in which they treated her...regardless of what her condition is or isn't was reprehensible. What was clear from near the beginning was that she wasn't a threat to them and the sinister mocking afterwards is twisted.

156 posted on 04/26/2021 9:50:30 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: Romulus
" In some places, I guess they would have just shot him. "

In the doctors office, under those circumstances? Geez, I doubt there is a single LEO in the country that would do that...bad apples and all.

In the rare cases when the disease jumps through multiple stages in weeks not years, it is hard to know when a patient needs to be confined.

Precisely my point. This might come as a surprise to some out there but LEO's are not doctors, they're not psychologists or clinicians of any type and are not in any position to render a medical diagnosis on the scene...in a matter of seconds or minutes no less. That's not their job.

What they are alleged to have done afterwards, is a different story.

157 posted on 04/26/2021 9:57:32 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: Codeflier; humblegunner

Unlike many other social media sites, FR is remarkably free of trolls. But somehow, Humblegunner has survived the numerous purges of trolls on FR and found a way to stay out of Zotsville.


158 posted on 04/26/2021 10:45:11 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: rxsid
That's not their job.

Sure it is. It's why they have police codes such as 5150 to describe someone who appears to have mental issues. In fact they can transport them and put them on a 72 hour hold. It's up to the cops, officer discretion, common sense etc.

159 posted on 04/26/2021 10:47:41 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: gundog

I’m sure he did know, but he doesn’t bolt until 1: the cop continues to fumble and 2: you can hear on better copies of the body cam recording the dispatcher announce “He’s got warrants.”


160 posted on 04/26/2021 11:10:25 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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