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Austin Hopp pleaded guilty on Wednesday to second-degree assault strangulation in the case of Karen Garner, whom he pinned down during an arrest on suspicion of shoplifting from a Walmart.
Three Colorado Officers Resign After Arrest of Woman With Dementia Body-camera footage of the arrest of Karen Garner has drawn widespread outrage, as has another video that showed officers laughing at the footage. Karen Garner asking for help from her painful injuries.Credit...Loveland Police, via The Life & Liberty Law Office April 30, 2021 Three members of a Colorado police department have resigned after they arrested and booked a 73-year-old woman with dementia who was thrown to the ground and handcuffed after she was suspected of shoplifting, officials said on Friday. The woman, Karen Gar...
Target: Robert L. Ticer, Chief of Police Loveland CO Goal: Fire police sergeant who allegedly turned off body camera during apparent injury of elderly woman with dementia. Phil Metzler, a Loveland, Colorado police sergeant arrived on a scene where two officers had arrested a 73-year-old woman with dementia. In the process of the arrest, the officers had allegedly dislocated her shoulder, fractured her arm, and sprained her wrist while throwing her to the ground and hog-tying her. Instead of commenting on the amount of force used during the arrest, Metzler comments on how muddy the officers ar...