This article was originally published by Matt Agorist at The Free Thought Project.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is incredibly disturbing. When some humans act as though they have the right to destroy others, we live in a horrific dystopian police state. If you are stuck in the left vs. right paradigm lie still, this article and the videos of police officers brutally abusing an elderly woman because they have a badge and believe they can, will probably offend you. No human has the right to treat another this way badge or not. Wake up. They don’t have more rights than we do and it’s time to recognize that fact.
Special thanks to Matt Agorist and Brian from High Impact TV for showing us just how vile people become when they are given power and qualified immunity.
On June 26, 2020, Karen Garner, 73, walked from her home to the local Walmart two blocks away to get some supplies. Everything that happened after this trip to Walmart is now the subject of an excessive force lawsuit against the Loveland Police Department because they have no idea how to treat elderly women with dementia. For nearly a year, the cops who savagely attacked the elderly woman thought they got away with it. However, thanks to a lawsuit and the release of body camera and surveillance footage, that is all changing.
On Tuesday, the Loveland [Colorado] city manager announced that Officer Austin Hopp, Officer Daria Jalali, Sgt. Phil Metzler and Community service officer Tyler Blackett have all been suspended and placed on administrative leave.
As TFTP reported earlier this month, body camera video showed the officers attack Garner. However, after the media began picking up on her story, another video was released showing that officers knew about the injuries they caused, neglected to provide aid, and laughed and celebrated their brutality against an elderly woman with dementia.
As 9News reports, the officers’ initial report said Garner, who has dementia, was not injured. Her lawyer, Sarah Schielke, said the officers dislocated Garner’s shoulder, broke a bone in her arm, and sprained her wrist.
Schielke alleges the video shows the three arresting officers watching body camera video of Garner’s arrest, laughing and celebrating the excessive force, and fist-bumping the fact that one of the officers intimidated a citizen who stopped to make a complaint.
Only because the video was released and drew the appropriate criticism did the department react. Now, they have no other option and have since launched a criminal investigation.
“It’s a really important thing for everyone to know that this is now a criminal investigation,” Tom Hacker, a spokesperson for LPD, said. “It’s one that LPD asked for and the DA is taking it on Fort Collins Police, both working on this [investigation] and we hope that this investigation goes as expeditiously as possible and that we learn of the outcome very soon.”
What should have been a situation in which an officer offers an elderly woman a ride home turned into senior citizen abuse at the hands of Loveland’s finest.
As we reported, like those with dementia often do, Garner simply grabbed her items in Walmart that day and walked out. She was quickly confronted by store security who then guided her back into the store for accidentally failing to pay for $13.88 worth of items.
After being escorted back into the building, Garner realized her mistake and tried to pay for the items but the store called the police anyway. By the time police arrived, Garner had left the store and was walking home. She had left the items back at the store and no crime had been committed.
When police arrived, the interaction was captured on body camera footage.
Officer Austin Hopp said, “Alright let’s stop ma’am. I don’t think you want to play it this way. Ma’am, police. Stop,” as he exited his patrol car.
Clearly illustrating her dementia, when Garner tries to respond to the officer, she simply mumbles.
But officer Hopp couldn’t have cared less that this was an elderly woman suffering from dementia, who by this time, had committed no crime. He just knew he had to escalate force.
After just two minutes, this “hero” cop tackles the frail elderly woman with dementia to the ground and puts her in handcuffs.
According to the lawsuit, when a second cop, officer Daria Jalali arrived, she “put her own hands on Ms. Garner to hold her while Officer Hopp continued pushing painfully upward on Ms. Garner’s already-restrained left arm and while also violently touching her all over her body.”
Illustrating how confused and scared Garner was, the entire time, she kept telling the officers, “I’m going home.”
“It makes you very worried about vulnerable people in the community with a police force like that,” civil rights attorney Sarah Schielke, of The Life & Liberty Law Office, who is representing Garner said. “The behavior is indefensible they knew they were being recorded and yet they did it anyway, we have to ask, ‘why?’”
In the video, we can hear the cops talking about Garner bleeding and then plotting all the charges against her. Every single one of the contrived charges had to do with cops escalating force against an innocent woman with dementia.
The cops were so rough with Garner they left her bloody and with broken bones. Despite her clearly visible injuries, according to the lawsuit, police brought her to jail and then denied her care. Instead of tending to her injuries, police left her chained to a cell for hours.
“The officers handcuffed her to a cell at the station for over 2 hours, keeping her isolated and terrified, in extreme pain, and then deposited her at the Larimer County jail where they lied and said she was uninjured, which ensured she continued to not receive medical treatment for another 3 hours,” the law office wrote in a press release.
We now have a video of officers fist-bumping and laughing at the abuse they doled out to a senior citizen with dementia. And these are the folks the thin blue line crowd wants us to blindly worship. Never.
Time to wake up. These people are imposing the will of the ruling class masters on us and we need to start to use our own critical thinking to see through the brainwashing and blind worship of the state and its enforcers and do the moral thing.
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There used to be places for people like these, and I do not predict placement, according to conservative standards, in my lifetime.
Road pirates and mentally-damaged are equally, socially undesirable, afaic.
Some places have “pigs” some places have “police”. choose wisely….
Psychopaths need jobs too. I get tired of hearing that it’s just a few bad apples. No. It’s not.
So we have a cop who clearly has aggression problems and likes making busts. I say society should do him a favor. Five to ten years in a state penitentiary busting big rocks into little rocks would be very therapeutic for him.
Scared Straight, for spiteful and unruly Boomers.
Well said Darth Skippy. Some of us “Boomers” are going to realize terminal-diagnoses in the relatively near future (just another aspect of growing old). Pity the bully that has made himself a target of our wrath – after all we won’t have much to lose when we are “terminal”. Some will think “might as well go out with a bang & take some tyrant with us”.
That’s the trouble with folks in positions of power that aren’t bright enough to realize the possible consequences of their actions.
She does not have the presence of mind to offer a receipt, yet “concerned family” leaves her to pick flowers besides a highway.
Has she been estranged?
If this was a black woman, the riots, looting and burning wo u!d resume.
As a former LEO in large city, I can tell you that I would not have treated anyone that way unless it was a felony or they were threatening with a weapon. Small shoplifting is not s felony and should have been handled respectfully. This is not just two bad cops, it is a corrupt department in my opinion. Lawsuit is inadequate to correct as we the taxpayers pay for that: only is remedy is firing and prosecution of everyone that was involved in the acts and their cover up. Loveland deserves better.
Even the police are mentally ill. They think they are above the law when all they are, are just another mortal mouth to feed in the world.
What a he-man that young cop displayed taking down a grandmother so violently. Probably was brought up in a badly broken family. Shameful and despicable tactics used in this poor woman’s unfortunate take down. The shear callousness of these cop/s calls out their condemnation. Maybe they should seek employment in Portland, Oregon since they don’t have any men with backbone up there.
Now with the all out blitz against ANY policing, you can expect more of this. As the standards are continually lowered, the applicants are less qualified, couple that with the insane “us versus them” mentality, and you have a recipe for disaster. Most cops are decent people, however, as these cops retire or QUIT, they are being replaced with people that no longer have the proper qualifications.
If if if…. If these pieces of shit wearing their tinfoil shields pinned to their left tits attacked my …… I would have to stomp their guts out of their assholes.
Think about this. Many candidates for police forces that did NOT make the “cut” (like team selection in school sports) in the past will soon be police in your neighborhood. Teach your children and impaired adults to be very careful when interacting with these police.
To those that have lethal-weapon altercations in their front yards, just let the folks kill one another. Don’t call the police. Don’t place police in the awful position of trying to figure out (in one second) whether the idiots are lethal are just crazy.
The last “are” is supposed to be “or”. Dern autocorrect changes things and the older I get – the more I miss.
I have parents, in this same age range, one of whom, decided to walk home an impossibly long distance.
She agrees that this video really happened, yet does not have the time to view it, in person, during her retirement.
She knows how to use digital media, efficiently, on her own devices, but flubs adult-like discussions with selective memory, selective speaking ability, and selective coordination.
She agrees to the many rules on how not to enrage a badge pirate, except that’s just for Millennials.
If any younger than us are still reading, you should establish expectations, many decades before they are too set in their ways.