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.
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What if it was their grandmother? How would they feel then?
Yes, those guys. Got it straight from one of them.
Maybe think that wasn’t so funny if it was a relative. Their families must be proud.
Get rid of the police chief too.
Yep. I would also get rid of the person who vetted and hired the chief. Clean house.
Ya, I get it. It is a matter of 'legal' versus 'moral' though. I often think the supreme Court has really gone down dome really poor roads.
Yes, in a doctor’s office. Do you have much experience with Alzheimer’s? Do you understand that at some stages, patients can be uncooperative, unreasonable, or even aggressive (it’s hard to generalize; the disease manifests in many different ways)? Do you understand how dangerous it would be if an uncooperative patient were perceived to be “resisting”?
I’m glad the cops that found my FIL had the good sense to bring him home safe. But it could have gone another direction entirely. Cops scare me. I avoid them.
That’s a Godly attitude...
Take care,
Ed
I’m not God and never pretend to be.
Oh, of course, but sometimes we can reflect God’s love towards others. That’s what I try and do, but sometimes I fail, unfortunately.
See ya’, Third Wheel, take care,
Ed
Our 97 year old aunt has dementia. It’s a hellish disease, one I wouldn’t wish on anybody.
Really really scum.
Sir Ed: Two things I fear.. Dementia and a stroke.
Just hope it never happens.
A relative of mine had a stroke and needed 24/7 care etc. and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone
Me, too. I had two friends who had massive strokes, and they ended upon a wheelchair and a hospital bed, non-verbal, non-communicative, for years...putting their family through hell.
I would never want to end unlike that...
Ed
Same same, I thin Babba Louie.
The 3 laughing hyena cops have resigned. The sergeant did not.
Hopp and Daria were in a romantic relationship and living together around time of arrest. This while he was married. Then he left. Probably trying to get “back in” her good graces showing off as a big tough guy. It just gets better and better.
What dreadful people.
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