On June 26, 2020, a Walmart employee in Loveland, Colorado reported that a woman had left the store with about $14 worth of items. Store staff stopped her and took the merchandise back before she got out of the parking lot. She kept walking home along the highway, picking wildflowers. Karen Garner was 73 years old. She has dementia and sensory aphasia. Officer Austin Hopp caught up with her on the side of the road. Over the next sixteen minutes she says almost nothing except one sentence, over and over: "I'm going home." She leaves with a fractured humerus, a dislocated shoulder and a sprained wrist. Three things on this recording are easy to miss: The officer says out loud, while she is bent over the hood of his car, that the store already got the merchandise back. Nothing was missing by the time he stopped her. A man driving past pulls over because of what he saw, and asks for the sergeant's name. The officer sends him away with: "Before you go to a snap judgment, you got to get all the facts." Two years later, with all the facts, a judge sent that officer to prison. He asks Karen Garner for her date of birth four times. She cannot answer once. They only learn she is 73 by running her name. About an hour later, at the station, she is in a holding cell with a broken arm. A few feet away, three officers pull up the body camera video of her arrest and watch it together. CBS News reported what they said while watching: "Ready for the pop?" - "I think it was her shoulder." - "Bodycams are my favorite thing to watch." - and, about how the arrest went, "we crushed it," followed by a fist bump. Officer Austin Hopp pleaded guilty to felony assault and was sentenced to five years in prison plus three years of parole. Officer Daria Jalali was convicted of three misdemeanors - failure to report the excessive use of force, failure to intervene, and first degree official misconduct - and served no prison time. The City of Loveland settled with Karen Garner's family for $3,000,000. The criminal case against Karen Garner was dropped. CHAPTERS 0:00 The stop 0:15 What she took, and what was already returned 0:53 "Stop, ma'am" 2:03 The only thing she says 2:28 "They caught you and took the stuff back" 3:18 Nothing was missing 3:49 A witness pulls over 5:29 "Get all the facts" 6:03 "That's her blood" 6:35 "What's your date of birth, Karen?" 6:59 What the recording already showed 7:38 "She's 73" 8:36 "Either way she's going" 9:06 An hour later, at the station 9:31 The officers watch the video 11:21 What they said while watching 11:54 $3,000,000 and five years 12:31 The practical lesson SOURCE Full unedited Loveland Police Department body-worn camera footage and booking area video - public records obtained in civil litigation and published in full by attorney Sarah Schielke, The Life & Liberty Law Office: Arrest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG0wfPMMR4k Booking area: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iuuyg94-yI Reporting used for the quotes and the legal record: CBS News, The Washington Post, Colorado Public Radio, NBC News, Denver7, 9NEWS, FOX31. This video is commentary and analysis of a public record. Nothing here is legal advice. ## Tags bodycam, police bodycam, karen garner, loveland police, austin hopp, daria jalali, dementia arrest, excessive force, police accountability, sarah schielke, life and liberty law, 3 million settlement, elderly woman arrested, walmart shoplifting, colorado police, bodycam breakdown, real bodycam footage, wrongful arrest ## Timeline (para conferir os capítulos da descrição) ``` 0:00 _cold 0:15 hook 0:53 r1_stop 2:03 p1_setup 2:28 r2_walmart 3:18 p2_recovered 3:49 r3_witness 5:29 p3_witness 6:03 r4_blood 6:35 r5_dob 6:59 p4_dementia 7:38 r6_73 8:36 r7_either 9:06 p5_act2 9:31 r8_review 11:21 p6_quotes 11:54 p7_outcome 12:31 p8_close ``` ## Fonte https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG0wfPMMR4k Bodycam bruto de Loveland PD + video da area de booking (registro publico obtido em litigio civel), publicados integralmente por Sarah Schielke / The Life & Liberty Law Office. Arquivos concatenados: prisao 0-27:11, booking a partir de 27:12.

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