Arrest of Colorado Woman With Dementia Prompts Investigation
Karen Garner, 73, of Loveland, Colo., walked out of a Walmart without paying for $13.88 worth of items. Police officers broke a bone in her arm and dislocated her shoulder, a lawsuit says.
A police body camera image of the arrest of Karen Garner in Loveland, Colo., last year. She was suspected of shoplifting from a Walmart.Credit.Loveland Police Department, via The Life & Liberty Law Office
April 20, 2021
The video shows a 73-year-old woman, clutching wildflowers and her wallet, being thrown to the ground and handcuffed in Loveland, Colo., last year by police officers who suspected her of shoplifting items worth $13.88 from a Walmart.
Resources for Immigrants with Disabilities in New York
Here are free resources for New Yorkers living with disabilities
As of, December of 2020
61 million adults in the United States have some type of disability according to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That translates to 1 in 4 Americans. In New York that figure is 1 in 5, according to a Department of Health Survey. Three million New Yorkers reported having a type of disability due to health conditions. While we don’t know the number of immigrants with disabilities and while certain disabilities are more noticeable than others, it does not take away that all types of conditions can be detrimental to individuals’ lifestyle and to the lives of those around them.
Through the decades, the right to vote in U.S. elections has seen massive change and expansion.
Since America’s founding days, when voting was limited to white male property owners, to the transformative Voting Rights Act of 1965, to sweeping voting process reform introduced in the early 2000s, the right to vote in U.S. elections has seen massive change.
The original Constitution left voting rights to the states for a range of reasons, including a compromise over slavery and the fact that the concept of setting up a representative democracy was new, says David Schultz, a political science professor at Hamline University and the University of Minnesota School of Law.
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It was after midnight on a June evening in 2017 when the discovery was made. Union Station’s entry vestibule an ode to Mission Moderne
architecture, with its Spanish tile floor and draping Art Deco chandeliers was virtually deserted. A restoration cleaning
crew was wiping down the tarnished ceiling panels, dim, brownish squares that hadn’t been cleaned in nearly 80 years and were so caked with
tobacco tar and dirt
One of the two workers, perched on a boom lift
about
40 feet high, gently wiped a section of the ceiling with cleaning solution, causing a swath of bright orange to appear. Repeated cleaning soon revealed bits of yellow and peach shining through. Below the darkened surface, there was a vibrant painting, original to the architecture, bearing a floral pattern.