3 Colorado police officers resign after rough arrest of 73-year-old woman with dementia

[Eugene]

Source: CBS/AP

3 Colorado police officers resign after rough arrest of 73-year-old woman with dementia

APRIL 30, 2021 / 2:58 PM / CBS/AP

Three police officers involved in the rough arrest of a 73-year-old Colorado woman with dementia have resigned, officials said Friday. Loveland Officers Austin Hopp and Daria Jalali and Community Services Officer Tyler Blackett were all on administrative leave before Chief Robert Ticer announced their departures from the police department during a press conference.

During the press conference, Ticer didn't specify whether the officers resigned or were fired. Department spokesman Tom Hacker later confirmed they had resigned.

Hopp arrested Karen Garner in June 2020 after she allegedly left a store without paying for about $14 worth of items. Garner filed a federal lawsuit this month saying Hopp dislocated her shoulder when she was arrested and that she did not receive medical care for about six hours after being taken to the county jail.

"Our goal at the Loveland Police Department has always been to make our community proud," Ticer told reporters Friday. "We failed, and we are very sorry for that."

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Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/loveland-colorado-police-officers-resign-rough-arrest-karen-garner-woman-dementia/

[Treefrog]

1. Good. This was horrendous.

That whole white privilege thing is so unreliable, darn it.

[Indykatie]

2. Allowing Bad Cops to Resign Immediately Eliminates Dealing With Their Unions Which Takes Time But

I'd like to have the satisfaction of these bastards being fired and losing future benefits. Resigning also makes it easier for them to go to another town/city and get another LE job.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

4. Bingo. They need to be prosecuted.

[Phoenix61]

3. Now they need to be charged with assault

on a special needs individual. There really needs to be a National database so they and others like them can never, ever be in law enforcement anywhere.

[KT2000]

5. The Walmart workers did not

let her leave the store with the $14 worth of goods. The took the goods from her but one of them decided to call the police on her anyway.

[Maru Kitteh]

6. Prosecute those worthless fuckers.

SCUM.

[Lettuce Be]

7. They're calling the assault a "rough arrest?"

That was not a rough arrest. It was assault and should be prosecuted. Elder with dementia and still they are overly aggressive? How much more can we take?

[Humanist_Activist]

8. "rough arrest"!? It was assault, these fuckers belong in prison. n/t