City to Pay $3M in Arrest of 73 year Woman With Dementia (cops laughed after)

[Demovictory9]

City to Pay $3M in Arrest of Woman With Dementia
Loveland police officers threw 73-year-old Karen Garner to the ground



A Colorado city has settled a federal lawsuit over a violent arrest of a 73-year-old woman with dementia for $3 million. Karen Garner's family had filed the suit accusing Loveland and its police officers of violating her civil rights, CBS reports. Loveland's city manager apologized to Garner and her family. "We know we did not act in a manner that upholds the values, integrity, and policies of the City and police department, and we are taking the necessary steps to make sure these actions are never repeated," Steve Adams said. Garner was arrested in June 2020 after leaving a Walmart, accused of shoplifting items costing $13.88.

Loveland officers stopped Garner as she was picking wildflowers on her walk home and threw her to the ground, handcuffing her. The lawsuit said police broke her arm and dislocated her shoulder in the process. Three officers involved in the arrest, which was captured on body camera video, have resigned; surveillance video showed them watching the video later and laughing. An outside investigation has been completed, but the findings have not yet been released, per the Denver Post. Allisa Swartz, Garner's daughter, said Tuesday that the family settled the suit because Garner's health is worsening. The money will be used to pay for her mother's round-the-clock care, she said.

https://www.newser.com/story/310814/suit-over-dementia-patients-arrest-settled-for-3m.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_world_login

[SamKnause]

1. The city isn't paying shit, the taxpayers are.

The taxpayers foot the bill for these fucked up cops over and over again.

Fuck the cops.

Fuck our sick justice system.

Take the money from the Fraternal Order of Police and watch this evil shit stop real fast.

Take away the cops pensions and watch this shit stop real fast.

Fuck their immunity.

They should be held to a higher standard, not a lower standard.

[MagickMuffin]

3. I was just going to post this

Well Stated!

[SamKnause]

5. Thanks.

I am so tired of people in power pretending like they don't have solutions to this problem.

This country is sick.

It is not what it advertises itself to be and that makes me angry, embarrassed, and sick to my stomach.

The prisons in this country are corrupt.

They make a fortune off phone calls, personal hygiene products, snacks etc.

The whole system is rotten to the core.

This country doesn't believe in rehabilitation, it believes in vengeance.

[Ferrets are Cool]

11. This

[kcr]

15. If taxpayers don't like shelling out settlements

They can do something about it. Maybe they'll stop listening to the crap they hear on right-wing radio about defunding the police. If not, I don't feel sorry for them.

[erronis]

2. The cops need to pay. There needs to be a country-wide registry of their actions.

The police unions need to be disbanded (socialist anyway) or made to pay the penalties. Not the taxpayers.

[lpbk2713]

4. They resigned so they could still get a job somewhere else.

If it was on their record that they were fired it would be more difficult to get another job.

[AZLD4Candidate]

8. Considering how often bad cops lose their jobs and get ones other places

I would completely agree that they will find gainful employment in law enforcement some place else and have learned nothing from this.

[multigraincracker]

6. Let the police defund themselves.

All Civil settlements should come out of the departments funds. Wages, equipment and staffing levels.

Be a huge change in the way citizens are treated. Also, cops would not toe the thin blue line as much. It would mean bad cops will cost them so they would not cover for them as they do now. Reward cops that take college level courses in psychology, anthropology and critical race theory. Learn more and make more.
but what do I know?

[luckone]

7. So sad that she has deteriorated in health . Being slammed to the ground and the criminal

experience she was given along with a broken arm & shoulder didn’t help her condition .

[malaise]

9. No one is safe from these pigs

and they are everywhere

[RockRaven]

10. The upper levels of the department are still there, and they tried to defend the officers' behavior.

The city manager etc need to decide how many more of these settlements they are ready to pay.

[David__77]

12. The video from that fascinating.

It showed how the young woman cop was timidly assenting to the brutal, pro-assault norm in that organization.

[Demovictory9]

13. Yes. Pre cop job, she would have been as.shocked as public was

Post.cop..they are.bringing her into the.fold
She may never be so brutal but she wont rat out others

[Calculating]

14. So sick of these demented cops not being held personally liable

Qualified immunity just needs to die in a fire already, it's not suitable when we have this many sociopaths wearing badges.