“Ready for the pop? Here comes the pop.”

[Occam's Banana]

“Ready for the pop? Here comes the pop.”

NOT INTENTIONALLY MALEVOLENT

KAREN GARNER DID THIS TO HERSELF

Karen Garner Arrest - Horrific Highlight Reel from Booking Area
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmtxTWTTdC4


“Ready for the pop? Here comes the pop.”

The quote above is from a Loveland Police officer – Austin Hopp – said in reference to the sound it made when he dislocated and fractured Karen Garner’s shoulder. Hopp made this comment to two fellow Loveland Police officers while they watched his body camera video together at the police station. They all laughed about it. The comment was made while Karen Garner, who has dementia, remained handcuffed to a bench in a cell just 10 feet away from them, alone, confused and crying in pain. She would ultimately go over six hours without any medical attention.

This horrific statement comes to light after Ms. Garner’s family hired a sound engineer to enhance the audio on Loveland Police station booking videos from the day of Karen’s arrest. The video reveals a grotesque culture of callous disregard for the health and safety of citizens. The officers fist-bump one another multiple times in self-congratulation for both the assault on Garner and the intimidation of the citizen who attempted to complain about it.

In an April 26, 2021 press release responding to the revelations seen in this video, Ms. Garner's attorney, Sarah Schielke of The Life & Liberty Law Office states: “This is utterly disgusting. These videos cannot be unseen or unheard. I am sorry to have to share them with the public. This will be traumatic and deeply upsetting for everyone to see. But as it often goes with bad police departments, it seems this is the only way to make them change. They have to be exposed. If I didn’t release this, the Loveland Police’s toxic culture of arrogance and entitlement, along with their abuse of the vulnerable and powerless, would carry on, business as usual. I won’t be a part of that.”

“Loveland knew. They’ve known all along,” Schielke continues. “They failed Karen Garner. They failed the community. And they did it all on camera. Do you realize how horrifying that is? That means they were used to getting away with it. That the comfortable norm in Loveland is one of zero accountability. That this is not just some ‘isolated incident.’ It is not just one single ‘problem.’ It is widespread, sociopathic criminality. And to attempt to shift the burden to Karen, or a bystander, or her family, or counsel, to report this? Shame on you, Loveland. You took an oath to protect and serve. This is a disgrace.”

Since filing a federal lawsuit against the City of Loveland and three of its officers on April 14, 2021, the Loveland Police Department’s gruesome arrest and abuse of 73-year-old grandmother Karen Garner has horrified the country, making national headlines (New York Times, Washington Post, CBS News, NBC News, CNN, Newsweek, The Guardian, Vice). The 8th Judicial District Attorney’s office, in conjunction with the FBI and Fort Collins Police, has since opened a criminal investigation into the Loveland Police.

Meanwhile, the City of Loveland has vowed to protect the “due process” rights of its officers, with Chief Robert Ticer putting one officer on administrative leave (Hopp) and “reassigning” the other two officers (Sergeant Metzler and Officer Jalali) to “administrative duties” (desk duty) until the various investigations are completed. To date, the City has yet to extend any apology to Ms. Garner or her family for the various atrocities witnessed on these videos.

The complete uncut booking area video is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iuuyg94-yI

Officer Hopp's bodyworn camera video of the assault on Ms. Garner is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG0wfPMMR4k

[Occam's Banana]

h/t @Anti Federalist: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...=1#post7033964

Old Lives Don’t Matter

https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2021...s-dont-matter/

By eric - April 17, 2021



There will probably be no riots and looting over the brutal treatment meted out to Karen Garner, a frail elderly woman reportedly suffering from Alzhemier’s disease, who was violently Hut! Hut! Hutted! by armed government workers for the crime of forgetting to pay for fourteen dollars’ worth of soda and detergent at Wal Mart.

Well, that was the excuse for the Hut! Hut! Hut! The real reason was her failure to immediately show the proper respect for Authority – by obeying commands barked at her by an AGW.

According to news reports, Garner had walked from her home to the Wal Mart, to buy the items – but walked out without having paid for them. She made no attempt to hide the items in her clothes and given that, the explanation that her Alzheimer’s is responsible for her walking out of the store without having paid for the items seems plausible.

Wal Mart employees followed her outside and pointed out that she had not paid; whereupon she apparently tried to pay for the items but the employees would not allow it.

In any event, the unpaid- for items were returned and Garner left to walk back home.

She is shortly confronted by an AGW who almost immediately resorts to extreme force to subdue this 80-something-pound threat to his safety.

Actually, his Authority.

Within 30 seconds, the AGW seizes Garner’s left arm and hurls the old woman to the ground, wrenches her arms behind her back and places he weight of his body on the 73-year-old, leaving her blooded and with broken bones, according to news reports.

Apparently, the woman was not given medical attention for several hours. Which means the Hut! Hut! Hut! could have had permanent effects, given it was applied to a frail old woman in her 70s. The elderly are “vulnerable,” remember.

Whatever happened to granny might die? This one actually could have. And not Because ‘Rona.

Keep in mind that all of this happened over – at most – the attempted “shoplifting” of fourteen dollars’ worth of stuff. It happened to an 80-something pound old lady, who posed no threat to the “safety” of the government thugs who brutalized her.

And, of course, she wasn’t black – so the assault upon her wasn’t racial.

Her “white privilege” did not protect her from being violently Hut! Hut! Hutted! over something that doesn’t even rise to the standard of jaywalking – since nothing was actually shoplifted.

The common denominator in these Hut! Hut! Huttings! isn’t race. That is a bogey – a distraction. The thing-in-common irrespective of race is the resort to hair-trigger murderous violence in response to any hesitation to the barked commands of AGWs – who are trained to react like steroidal pit bills when their Authority isn’t immediately respected.

This failure justifies – in their vicious little minds – the use of force against old ladies and kids – and people laying on the floor, as ordered, crying for their lives (Daniel Shaver) who are treated the same as violent, dangerous men on the attack by pathetic Batman-belted, body-armored men and loathsome women wielding government-sanctioned ultra-violence.

The problem is not racial. It is legal.

It is the problem of endowing sadists with the Authority to treat people this way over penny-ante “offenses” – and not treating people who behave this way as the criminals they are.

There is a reason why so many people who would ordinarily support police loathe armed government workers.

There’s a difference – and it’s damned important.

[The Northbreather]

I resent the pit-bull slight

[CCTelander]

Heroes.

[Danke]

Those cops appear to have a very low IQ. Shouldn’t be on the force.

[dannno]

Those cops appear to have a very low IQ. Shouldn’t be on the force.

Nobody with an IQ above 85 would ever consider being a police officer these days.

[dannno]

Baltimore police fall below 700 sworn officers – faces closing police districts as morale fades
Posted by: Scott A. Davis|April 20, 2021 |CategoriesFeatured, News, Politics and Policing


BALTIMORE, MD – Baltimore Police Department’s manpower woes have not subsided since the Baltimore Police Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) said the department was 500 officers short in December.

https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/...-morale-fades/


N.J. is seeking State Police recruits, but applications are ‘historically low,’ officials say
Updated Apr 18, 2021; Posted Apr 17, 2021

https://www.nj.com/news/2021/04/nj-i...cials-say.html


Both of these stories written pre-Chauvin verdict..

[CCTelander]

Those cops appear to have a very low IQ. Shouldn’t be on the force.

People who are too intelligent are specifically disallowed from becoming cops. There have bedn suits by people who were rejected for being too smart and the courts uphold the right to reject applicants on those grounds.

[TheTexan]

What were they supposed to do in that situation? Let her just keep picking wildflowers on her way home??

[Occam's Banana]

Family Shocked as Cop Who Beat Elderly Grandma to Be Released Early, Serving Less than 1/5 of Sentence
"His plea deal and sentence of 2-5 years did not even offer the opportunity of a parole hearing until April of 2024"
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/po...-5-of-sentence
Matt Agorist (10 February 2023)

Loveland, CO — 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 became the subject of an excessive force lawsuit against the Loveland Police Department that cost taxpayers $3 million because they have no idea how to treat elderly women with dementia.

That $3 million now goes to the round-the-clock care required for Garner after the attack left her disabled.

For nearly a year, the cops who savagely attacked the elderly woman thought they got away with it. However, in April 2021, the Loveland city manager announced that Officer Austin Hopp, Officer Daria Jalali, Sgt. Phil Metzler, and Community service officer Tyler Blackett had all been suspended and placed on administrative leave. Then, the following May, Jalali and Hopp were both charged.

At the time, the chief of the Loveland police department, Robert Ticer referred to the incident, saying, “What you saw on the video is not the Loveland Police Department.”

In March, Hopp took a plea deal. Before that deal, Hopp had faced a mandatory sentence between 10 and 32 years for his brutal attack on the innocent woman as she picked flowers walking home from the store.

Last May, Hopp was sentenced to 5 years but thanks to his blue privilege, this cop could be out of jail next week — after serving only nine months. CBS reports Hopp is scheduled to appear in a northern Colorado court next week to possibly be transitioned out of prison and into a halfway house program.

"The Garner family is shocked and confused that former Officer Hopp is being offered a parole hearing to discuss the opportunity of moving to Community Corrections," the family wrote in a statement. "His plea deal and sentence of 2-5 years did not even offer the opportunity of a parole hearing until April of 2024. He's only served 9 months of his sentence. This is likely being offered due to prison overcrowding, according the CO DCC website, and we'd like to know what Governor Polis is doing to make sure violent offenders are not being let out years early, as is happening in this case."

As we reported at the time, having dementia is not a crime but Hopp certainly treated it like one and then used his authority to savagely attack an innocent elderly woman.

As TFTP reported, body camera video showed the officers attacking Garner. However, after 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 reported at the time, 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.

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 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 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.

When a second cop, officer 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."

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 that 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.

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VIDEO: Loveland Police Sergeant Defends Officers' Forceful Arrest Of Karen Garner On Video
New documents and video reveal that a Loveland Police Department internal investigation approved of the use of force on an elderly woman with dementia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2UvcmOQ110 [07 September 2021]



Lawyer claims new video shows Loveland police knew of injuries caused to 73-year-old woman during ar[rest]
Karen Garner's lawyer released a new video she said shows the officers knew of her injuries at the time of her arrest and neglected to provide medical attention.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW-ulHSQ73M [26 April 2021]



Body camera footage shows 73-year-old Loveland woman forced to ground by police
Loveland Police said Thursday the department just learned about an alleged incident of excessive force involving a 73-year-old woman with dementia that happened nearly a year ago when body camera footage of the incident was posted on its Facebook page. A Loveland attorney filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of Karen Garner, the woman in the video. The lawsuit alleges that she was injured after being forced to the ground by a Loveland Police officer. Her crime? The lawsuit suggests she attempted to leave a Walmart with less than $14 worth of items she forgot to purchase. The lawsuit says Garner suffered a dislocated shoulder, a broken humerus and a sprained wrist during the arrest. This footage has been edited by the law firm representing Garner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzkl2u-Tc70 [15 April 2021]



Video shows elderly woman forced to the ground by officers
A Loveland attorney filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of Karen Garner, the woman in the video. The lawsuit alleges that she was injured after being forced to the ground by a Loveland Police officer. Her crime? The lawsuit suggests she attempted to leave a Walmart with less than $14 worth of items she forgot to purchase. A statement from Walmart indicates that police were called only after Garner became "physical" with an associate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WQyuKKVXEA [16 April 2021]



RAW: Lawyer claims video shows Loveland police knew of injuries caused to woman, 73, during arrest
The lawyer for Karen Garner, the 73-year-old Loveland woman forcibly arrested last year by Loveland police, has released a new video that she said shows the officers involved neglected to provide Garner with medical attention despite knowing she was injured. Editor's Note: Video was provided by Garner's lawyer, who edited in the verbatim and the commentary at the bottom of the screen. 9NEWS has not been able to obtain the raw video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POOawxB7zaM [26 April 2021]