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Monday, April 26, 2021

Loveland Police Respond To Federal Lawsuit Claiming ‘Excessive Use Of Force’ During Arrest Of 73-Year-Old Woman

LOVELAND, Colo. (CBS4)– The Loveland Police Department is responding to a federal lawsuit that alleges “excessive use of force” and serious injury during an arrest of a woman in her 70s. The department became aware of the lawsuit on Wednesday after body camera video was posted on the Loveland Police Department’s Facebook page.

The shoplifting arrest of Karen Garner, 73, happened on June 26, 2020. Police said they will investigate the incident that will include “an examination of all images, documents and records compiled” in connection with the event. Garner was suspected of having taken $13.88 in items from a Walmart without paying for them.

The Life & Liberty Law Office representing Garner said that she suffers from dementia and sensory aphasia, which impairs her ability to verbally communicate and understand others’ communications. She is also 5-feet and weighs 80 pounds. According to her attorneys, on the day in question, she was walking through a field, picking wildflowers when Officer Hopp stopped, called out to her to stop and talk to him.
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14 comments:

  1. ...and they wonder why some of us hate them.

    Nemo

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    1. Yep, I try to look at them objectively then you see shit like this. Any man that resorts to violence against a 73yr. old 80 lbs women doesn't have the mental capacity to be a peace officer, at the very least he should be fired

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  2. Another big tough jackboot. No worries, the taxpayers can pay for it and the jackboot tax eater just gets a short paid vacation before he can go out and abuse more peasants. I hate antifa, but FTP is right.

    We need to make things more dangerous for the jackboots so that there are less of them. Once they are out of the way some vigilantism will recaliberate people beliefs and ideals. Too many of them support this kind of stuff.

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  3. If she was black, shed get $250,000 like that black shoplifter who got tazed outside the walmart.

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  4. And the bill for the bacon just got that much bigger

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  5. I won't watch - there's too many punk cops out there who take too literally the word 'comply'.

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  6. The lawyer attests that she suffers from dementia, has become withdrawn and is in fear to go out. How does she remember what she is afraid of if this is true?

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    1. People with early stages of dementia have moments of dementia, then as the disease progresses, they have moments of clarity. You don't know how far along she is.

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  7. She suffers from dementia? How does she remember where home is? Why does her family leave her alone where she can wander off and perhaps walk in front of traffic or get lost in the woods? Doesn't add up.

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    1. There's more than one type of dementia and not all affect memory or lucidity 24/7. IOW there are stages of incapacity. Some affect behavior and executive function primarily before it affecting.

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  8. Shockingly, Officer Daria Jalali in 2016 was a diversity hire (Middle Eastern) for the Lafayette, CO police 30 miles to the south of Loveland. Shocking and unbelievable, I know.

    https://www.dailycamera.com/2016/05/13/with-new-hires-lafayette-police-seek-to-improve-diversity/

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  9. this is the shit the removal of qualified immunity will stop, because without it, these thugs will have to think twice, because any penalties come out of their pockets and not the public purse.

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  10. This is NOT the first such incident for the Loveland PD. Not long ago they had a badgemonkey who arrested a 'good samaritan' that had the nerve to actually help an accident victim on the roadway. That man got a couple hundred thousand in a settlement....and that's just ONE of many such incidents. I was a teenager in Loveland, graduated HS there. Most of my family still lives there and I visit occasionally. The PD has some MAJOR issues....as does the city council.

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