Laughing Cops Charged for Violent Arrest of Woman With Dementia

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Two former Colorado police officers face charges after they violently arrested a 73-year-old woman with dementia last summer—and then laughed while watching gruesome body-cam footage of the incident at the police station hours later

Laughing Cops Charged for Violent Arrest of Woman With Dementia
Surveillance footage showed the two cops going back to the station and laughing at their body-cam footage of the violent arrest.
thedailybeast.com
12:20 PM · May 19, 2021

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-loveland-officers-austin-hopp-daria-jalali-charged-for-karen-garner-arrest/

Two former Colorado police officers face charges after they violently arrested a 73-year-old woman with dementia last summer—and then laughed while watching gruesome body-cam footage of the incident at the police station hours later.

Ex-Loveland Police officer Austin Hopp, 26, has been charged with second-degree assault causing serious bodily injury, attempting to influence a public servant, and official misconduct in relation to the June 26, 2020, arrest of Karen Garner after she left a Walmart with unpaid goods, according to online court records.

The other officer who assisted in Garner’s arrest, 27-year-old Daria Jalali, was charged with failure to report the use of force by a peace officer, failure to intervene, and first-degree official misconduct.

Surveillance footage released last month revealed that after the arrest—in which Hopp tackled Garner to the ground and handcuffed her against his cruiser—the officers went back to the station and watched their body-cam footage of the incident as Garner sat in a cell for hours.

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[Leghorn21]

1. ALRIGHTY THEN

I hope y’all have some real hard days behind this

SICK SADISTIC FUCKERS

[Demovictory9]

2. good! finally.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. Ditto!

Exactly what I was going to type.

[iemanja]

3. The police seem to attract the worst human beings on the planet

and then they are reinforced for their behavior.

[Chainfire]

5. What better place to work if you are an abusive person?

It takes a real man to tackle a frail, sick old woman. It takes a piece of trash to then brag and laugh about it.

Cops get away with murder, every day.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. This system can't be reformed.

[dalton99a]

7. How many people did they beat up and injure before this incident?

[gldstwmn]

10. Who knows? How much taxpayer

money has been used so the cops can act as a private security force for Walmart? I hope they get sued too.

[Crunchy Frog]

12. I've seen footage from other incidents with the Loveland PD.

They appear to be seriously dirty.

[Deuxcents]

8. Who gets the last laugh

After Ms Garner n her family sue and the ex cops are in jail?

[gldstwmn]

9. Why are valuable resources

being used to chase down someone who "shoplifted" less than $20 worth of goods at Walmart? This process needs revising.
Kudos to the DA that brought the charges.

[Crunchy Frog]

11. Sat in a cell for 6 hours with a dislocated shoulder and broken arm,

handcuffed and crying in pain, while they laughed.

[uponit7771]

13. More bad cops defunding the police

[RockRaven]

14. If the lawsuit hadn't made this publicly known, they would have gotten away with it. Other cops

knew and did nothing. All fucking cops...