Austin Hopp pleaded guilty in March to second-degree assault for throwing to the ground and injuring Karen Garner, 73 at the time, during an arrest on suspicion of shoplifting in Colorado.
Three Colorado Officers Resign After Arrest of Woman With Dementia
Body-camera footage of the arrest of Karen Garner has drawn widespread outrage, as has another video that showed officers laughing at the footage.
Karen Garner asking for help from her painful injuries.Credit.Loveland Police, via The Life & Liberty Law Office
April 30, 2021
Three members of a Colorado police department have resigned after they arrested and booked a 73-year-old woman with dementia who was thrown to the ground and handcuffed after she was suspected of shoplifting, officials said on Friday.
The woman, Karen Garner, was pinned against a squad car, and her arm was twisted behind her back, breaking a bone and dislocating her shoulder during the roadside arrest in Loveland, Colo., last June, a lawsuit says.
Video shows police officers laughing at footage of arrest in which they allegedly injured 73-year-old woman with dementia By Christopher Brito
April 27, 2021 / 6:44 AM / CBS News
Newly released video shows Colorado police officers laughing at footage of an arrest in which they allegedly injured a 73-year-old woman with dementia.
The hour-long video released Monday shows responding officers Austin Hopp and Daria Jalali of the Loveland Police Department and an unnamed third officer celebrating and laughing as they reviewed body cam footage of the arrest of Karen Garner, which happened last year. Ready for the pop? officer Austin Hopp said, referring to moment when Hopp and Jalali place handcuffs on Garner on the side of the patrol car. Hear the pop?
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