Colorado's Loveland PD Is Far From Loving
The arrest of Karen Garner rightfully garnered outrage around the nation and around the world. The arrest of the septuagenarian with dementia on suspicion of shoplifting was not another case of an officer killing an unarmed black man, but it did highlight the danger bad cops pose to other vulnerable portions of the population. During the June 26th, 2020, arrest, over $13.88 worth of merchandise that she actually put back before she left, Officer Austin Hopp broke her arm, sprained her wrist, separated her shoulder, did not call for medical assistance, and then kept her in jail with this painful injury for hours, going so far as to manipulate her shoulder in her booking photographs to hide the injury. For context, Ms. Garner was 5'2" and 80 pounds. Hopp pleaded guilty and in May was sentenced to five years in prison and three years of parole for felony assault as part of a plea agreement in order to avoid the 10 to 30 years in prison he would have faced had he gone to...