if(document.querySelector("#adunit")){ Are you finished? he said. It is part of a group-think mentality that occurred that day.. The District Attorneys action and the third-party investigation are in keeping with a multi-agency Critical Incident Response Team protocol. Around the mid-way point, one of the officers (apparently one of the guys) farted. }); I do hope this brings the next level of closure for Ms. Garner and her family.". Jalali returned to report that Garner was complaining that theyre really hurting her.. She later added that while there is responsibility on Jalalis part in her knowing that she was falling short, she was still getting the affirmation from her department that she was doing fine. The officer took her to the ground and handcuffed her. And just like on June 26, 2020, the inhumane treatment of our mother was ignored and his continued support of the department was the focus. I wanted to be a good police officer and my heart was in the right place, but I still came up short, she said. hitType: 'event', We will hold law enforcement accountable just like we will any other criminal actors, he said. }) Hopp says later: We crushed it. Jalali voiced concern she was not helping enough, but Hopp appears to support her. As seen on video, Hopp confronted Garner on the side of the road. ', Hopp sounded slightly more serious while voicing concern that Garner was senile. Even during the arrest, he downplayed the challenge of wrestling with Garner, saying she weighed like 20 pounds.. Garner's family sat in the first row in the courtroom wiping tears from their eyes as this final chapter of their mother's case came to an end. A video captured on a police body camera last year showed Garner repeatedly saying she was trying to go home while picking flowers. Grandmother with dementia died from face wound neglected by staff for days. "I can't comprehend how anybody would be proud or excited about this arrest," the judge said, referencing Hopp and Jalali fist bumping after the arrest. } The sentencing comes more than a year after information on Garners arrest was made public by Sarah Schielke of the Life and Liberty Law Office when she filed a lawsuit in early 2021. "The pop" alludes to something in the video, but what it is is unclear. Bodycam video shows a police officer arresting Karen Garner, 73, in Loveland, Colo.,on June 26. injured an elderly woman with dementia during an arrest in 2020, Police officer who violently arrested 73-year-old woman may get plea deal, Body camera video shows police force 73-year-old woman with dementia to ground, accepted a plea deal in March for the assault charge. You were definitely fighting, he said. }) Garner's attorney previously released bodycam footage from her arrest on June 26, 2020, after she forgot to pay $13.38 for her Walmart purchases. hitType: 'event', Philip Metzlerare on administrative duties. Rude.. Hopp repeatedly pointed out there was a pop., Did you hear the pop? he said. Hopp then roughly took Garner to the ground and placed her in handcuffs, the video showed. A former Loveland Police Department officer who assisted in the 2020 arrest of Karen Garner has been sentenced to 45 days in jail followed by three years of probation for a case that the presiding judge described as incomprehensible.. A CCTV footage showed the cops seated at their police precinct desks while watching the bodycam footage of the incident. He described the sentence as punishment for a horrible and tragic choice., You need to learn from it, and you need to be punished for it, he said. She said that it was common that officers interacted with someone under the influence and she thought that was the situation with Garner and that, despite not recognizing Garners mental health, she still tried to help her by asking if she needed medical attention. Garner reportedly has dementia. Loveland ex-cops charged with injuring dementia patient. The two former Loveland police officers charged Wednesday in connection to their arrest of a 73-year-old woman with dementia last year have both turned themselves in to Larimer County authorities as of Thursday morning. She also said that a neuropsychological evaluation has shown that Jalali did not have the "psychological makeup" to act with the precision and awareness that are expected of police officers. A former Colorado police officer who injured an elderly woman with dementia during an arrest in 2020 was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison. Officers Austin Hopp and Daria Jalali of the Loveland, Colorado police department arrested Karen Garner in June last year after she left a Walmart store with $14 of goods for which she had not. The footage, newly released by the Life & Liberty Law Office, picks up later in the day, with officers bantering during the womans booking. ga('ads.send', { Asked by a male officer, he said he did not read her Miranda rights. Jalali and Blackett were put on leave later, as was a sergeant. (Law&Crime founder Dan Abrams was the host of Live PD.). Citing surveillance footage, the plaintiffs legal team says the officers were aware of Garners injuries but did not summon help. Both Jalali and Hopp resigned on April 30 amid an internal investigation, the Daily Beast reported. This was a situation where the obligation to do that was painfully obvious.. The judge suggested that Jalali's lack of actions to help Garner that day may have been dogged by her romantic involvement with Hopp. Lehman sentenced Jalali to 3 years of supervised probation with 250 hours of community service. ", "What happened in June of 2020 was an abysmal failure. hitType: 'event', She also provided a personal narrative for the arrest, explaining how she read and understood the situation when she was there. In his ruling, Lehman continually came back to one word for how he saw the case: incomprehensible. pg.acq.push(function() { It was an abysmal failure of that duty to protect and serve," the judge said. eventAction: 'click_image_ads' . I was super excited, he said, and recounted his version of what happened. It is just tragic that this even happened and it was compounded by your continuous choices that you made throughout the two hours you were with her, Judge Lehman told Jalali during the sentencing. Daily Mail revealed that Jalali and Hopp are lovers. window.googletag.pubads().addEventListener('slotRenderEnded', function(event) { Hopp was dispatched to a local Walmart on the report of attempted shoplifting. Throughout the 27-minute unedited video, Garner can be heard telling the officer: "I'm going home." Hopp says he is detaining the elderly woman for resisting arrest and for stealing the items at. Documents, video footage and other records produced and compiled in connection with the Karen Garner arrest and its aftermath will be considered by investigators from the District Attorney and Fort Collins Police Services, chosen through mutual agreement to lead the investigation.. Jalali, speaking on her own behalf, began by apologizing to Garner and her family for everything that happened. document.querySelector("#adunit").addEventListener('click',function(){ Body camera video released by the attorney showed Hopp telling Garner to stop and talk to him as she walked home. She was allegedly forced to sit in a holding cell without medical attention for hours, even after Hopp, Jalali and another employees were heard on security footage acknowledging that she may have injuries. Please enter valid email address to continue. Shannon Steward said she believes this decision will set a precedent for other officers going forward. As in the prior sentencing of former officer Austin Hopp, this verdict does not change Ms. Garner's wrongful and illegal treatment or the pain she and her family have experienced. "This whole thing was tragic. ga('ads.send', { Ms. Minyvonne Burkeis a senior breaking news reporter for NBC News. Yeah, Im a little worried that shes like senile and stuff, Hopp can be heard saying at one point. Philip Metzler and Antolina Hill, former officers Daria Jalali and Austin Hopp, and former community service officer Tyler Blackett as individual defendants. Daria Jalali Jalali, 28, appeared in the 8th Judicial District Court Tuesday afternoon where her attorney Anna Geigle said she has been in discussions with the 8th Judicial District. The last time I saw either of them was just days before the news broke of the lawsuit they were involved in. "I made a terrible mistake that day," he said. For the dark subject matter, the officers tone appears lighthearted throughout the video. gads_event = event; Garner was arrested after she was accused of stealing about $14 worth of items from a Walmart. Garner, who returned the items before leaving the store, was thrown to the ground by Hopp after failing to comply with orders to stop walking. window.googletag.cmd.push(function() { This is something that continued to go on, continued to be discussed, continued to be celebrated, continued to be explained, she said, later adding, there is never a point where someone thinks they did something wrong.. Jalali's defense spoke to the judge saying that her personal records of employment show she didn't know better due to a lack of training and accountability from Loveland Police. The two officers are seen laughing and even fist-bumping each other over the successful arrest, during which they dislocated the woman's shoulder trying to handcuff her. The arresting officer was placed on administrative leave. Read the full story at. Attorney Eric Ziporin said in an email the city has no comment on the mediation outcome. Geigle also brought up a neuropsychological evaluation which she said also shed light on the background of the situation based on how Jalali processes information. Independent comment from the Loveland Police Department would not be appropriate at this time. You understand me? "Can you stop it now?" Jalali pleaded guilty to a charge of failure to intervene with an . hitType: 'event', Anna Geigle, Jalalis attorney, said in her argument that she was able to look at Jalalis personnel files from the LPD and another department she had worked for previously. 2023 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. The officers are Austin Hopp and Daria Jalali as well as community service officer Tyler Blackett. eventAction: 'view' Jalali's lawyer also said accusations that her client was not remorseful were inaccurate. He said he felt sick to the stomach reading the evidence in the case. 4. Hopp, Jalali, and the male officer begin watching the firsts body cam footage. ga('ads.send', { We're not going to hold you." eventCategory: event.slot.getSlotElementId(), I was like, Okay, youre gonna play, and I was pushing, pushing, pushing, and I hear pop, I was like Oh, no. That is what we need from our law enforcement, the ability to stand up to your fellow officer and say no, what are you doing? Lehman said. },false) Jalali was sentenced to 45 days of straight jail time and 36 months of probation for her involvement in the 2020 Karen Garner arrest. Her next court date is June 22, NBC affiliate KUSA of Denver reported. eventAction: 'click_adunit' Everyone chuckled. The hearing started with Assistant District Attorney Matt Maillaro showing a roughly 12-minute video of Jalalis body-worn camera footage from the day of the arrest, a video that caused visible emotion from Garners family who were gathered in the courtroom for the sentencing. }); She asked that Jalali's cognitive deficits be weighed when it came to the judge's sentencing. As fellow officer Daria Jalali responded to the scene, Hopp allegedly separated Garner's shoulder by forcing her arm behind her back and up near her shoulder blades, CBS Denver said. The lawsuit said that he fractured and dislocated her shoulder. Some 17 minutes into the video, Hopp appears to give a fist bump to Officer Daria Jalali, who had arrived at the original scene to help him arrest Garner. Allisa Swartz, Garners daughter, spoke through tears as she explained how hard it was to watch the footage once again of her mother being arrested. Geigle requested that the court impose an 18-month probationary period with no jail time, adding jail would merely be punitive, and that Jalali has faced a great deal of difficulty since the information on the case was made public. They continued to watch the footage, and bantered about her arrival at the arrest. In the video, which had been previously released, Jalali can be seen attempting to put Garner in her car following Hopps arrest of the elderly woman.