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Colorado city pays $3M to settle THAT police brutality lawsuit after laughing cops broke arm of dementia sufferer, 73, who forgot to pay for $13 of Walmart groceries
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Loveland, Colorado settles police brutality lawsuit for $3million

  • The victim is Karen Garner, a 73-year-old woman with dementia, who was left in a jail cell with injuries for more than six hours

  • Now-former Loveland Police Officers Austin Hopp, 26, and Daria Jalali, 27, were seen in bodycam footage slamming Garner to the ground

  • Neither is with the police department and both are facing criminal charges

  • 'This is justice for mom,' Allisa Swartz said while fighting back tears during a Wednesday press conference

  • Garner's family and lawyer Sarah Schielke called on the city to make drastic changes to the police department

  • Schielke said if Chief Ticer is fired or resigns within 30 days, she will donate $50,000 to an Alzheimer's or dementia charity of his choice

  • Loveland City Manager Stephen Adams apologized to Garner's family in a statement released on Wednesday

  • Police Chief Bob Ticer said in a statement that 'there is no excuse, under any circumstances, for what happened to Ms. Garner'

Posted by: Skidmark 2021-09-09
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=612065