There are three of them, two men and a woman, all in uniform. Three policemen, sitting side by side, in the office in front of a PC screen. Loud laughter, punch-to-fist jokes: the show must be fun …. They’re watching the video of an arrest made months ago. A woman’s voice is heard screaming: “Leave me, I didn’t know.” Believe her: Karen Garner, 73-year-old grandmother has Alzheimer’s. She was plucked last June 26 in Colorado while he came out of a Walmart without having paid a bill of 13 dollars, but only now has the video of the police officers making fun of her reviewing the bodycam footage of that surreal arrest has been released: another video that embarrasses the American police and this time it’s not about an African American.
The show that arouses so much hilarity among the uniformed men of the district of Loveland is that of an old lady who is stopped walking in a field towards home. An agent is seen telling her to stop and when she refuses, he throws her to the ground and handcuffs her. In the maneuver, they break her arm. Upon reviewing the scene, sadism also explodes. «Hear that shoulder noise (when he dislocates himself) »says a policeman. The woman also reported a fractured elbow, said the family lawyer who disclosed the footage of the security cameras with the audio of the policemen “cleaned up”.
The charge against them is of “violent assault” and violation of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act. Attorney Sarah Schielke explained that her client was six hours without medical support, confused and in tears after an arrest that turned into “torture”
Allisa Swartz, Garner’s daughter; Shannon Steward, the daughter-in-law, and Jessa Swartz, the niece, met with the press yesterday and recounted the aftermath of the arrest: with tears in their eyes, reports the Loveland Reporter-Herald, they said that what happened to her changed the lady. who, since then, hasn’t been the same anymore, she’s depressed.
An investigation has been opened into this surreal arrest by agents from the Loveland district.
April 27, 2021 (change April 27, 2021 | 11:06 am)
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