Moment Colorado cops fist bump and LAUGH at video of themselves 'breaking arm and dislocating shoulder' of dementia-suffering woman, 73, after she left Walmart without paying $13
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - Loveland Police Officers Austin Hopp and Daria Jalali arrested Karen Garner, 73, on June 26, 2020, after she left Walmart without paying $13-worth of items
- Footage from Hopp's body-camera shows him slamming Garner, who has dementia, to the ground, causing her to fracture her elbow and dislocate her arm
- New video released by an attorney for Garner's family on Monday purportedly showed the officers laughing at body-camera footage of the arrest hours later
- Hopp is heard saying: 'Ready for the pop?' at the moment Garner's arm came out of its socket
- Attorney Sarah Schielke said while the officers laughed and fist-bumped over the video Garner sat a few feet away in a cell crying in pain
- Schielke filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Hopp on April 15
- State prosecutors subsequently opened a criminal investigation into Hopp, Jalali and their supervisor, Sgt Phil Metzler
Posted by: Skidmark 2021-04-27 |