He assaulted a dementia patient. She failed to intervene and report the assault by her colleague. They fist-bumped afterward.

Meet Loveland Police Officer Austin Hopp, who assaulted 73-year-old Karen Garner after he stopped her on the suspicion of shoplifting.

And Meet Loveland Police Officer Daria Jalali, who neither intervened in Hopp’s assault on Garner, nor reported it.

Two of Loveland, Colorado’s “finest:” Loveland Police Officers Austin Hopp and Daria Jalali, arrested for assault on 73-year-old dementia patient Karen Garner. Source: Dillon Thomas CBS Denver, May 20, 2021.

Loveland Colorado Police Officers relax and share war stories about assaulting Karen Garner. Photo source: CBS Denver, May 20, 2021.

From The New York Times, May 20, 2021:

Former Police Officers Charged Over Arrest of Woman With Dementia

Video of the 73-year-old woman being thrown to the ground has led to scrutiny of the Loveland Police Department in Colorado.

Karen Garner in police custody in Loveland, Colo., last June. Credit…Loveland Police, via The Life & Liberty Law Office

By Azi Paybarah Published May 19, 2021Updated May 20, 2021, 4:25 a.m. ET

Two former police officers in Colorado are facing criminal charges in connection with the arrest last year of a 73-year-old woman with dementia during which she was thrown to the ground, prosecutors announced on Wednesday.

One former officer with the Loveland Police Department, Austin Hopp, was charged with assaulting the woman, while the other officer, Daria Jalali, was charged with not intervening in a case of excessive force or reporting it, according to Gordon P. McLaughlin, district attorney for the Eighth Judicial District of Colorado.

The episode happened on June 26, 2020, when the police stopped the woman, Karen Garner, in Loveland, about 45 miles north of Denver. She was clutching wildflowers and her wallet when she was flung to the ground and handcuffed by police officers who suspected her of shoplifting items worth $13.88 from a Walmart.

In police body camera footage of the episode that Ms. Garner’s lawyer released last month, Ms. Garner can be heard crying out in pain, and appearing confused, telling officers she was “just going home.”

Another video, also released by Ms. Garner’s lawyer last month, showed officers laughing at footage of Ms. Garner’s arrest. “I love it,” one officer says, with a laugh. “This is great.”

Mr. Hopp and Ms. Jalali resigned from the Police Department at the end of April, and a community service officer who booked Ms. Garner also resigned, officials said.

“Ensuring public trust in law enforcement and in our criminal justice system is vital to our community’s safety and our fundamental belief in fairness,” Mr. McLaughlin said on Wednesday in announcing the charges against Mr. Hopp and Ms. Jalali.

He added, “The charges we have filed are based both on the use of force during the arrest of Ms. Garner, and the alleged failure to perform certain duties during and after the arrest that the law and a peace officer’s sworn duties require.”

Mr. Hopp was charged with second-degree assault, attempt to influence a public servant and first-degree official misconduct. Ms. Jalali was charged with failure to report excessive use of force, failure to intervene in excessive use of force, and first-degree official misconduct.

It was not immediately clear if the former officers had lawyers. Email messages sent to Mr. Hopp and Ms. Jalali were not immediately returned on Wednesday.

After the officers arrested Ms. Garner last June, a lawyer for Ms. Garner filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Loveland Police Department. The lawsuit describes Ms. Garner as “suffering” from dementia, disorientation and sensory aphasia, or impaired understanding of spoken or written speech.

According to the lawsuit, Ms. Garner was pinned against a squad car, and her arm was twisted behind her back, breaking a bone and dislocating her shoulder. She was later taken to jail and not given medical help until hours later, the lawsuit says.

The arrest touched off an investigation led by the Fort Collins Police Services, which presented its findings recently to Mr. McLaughlin’s office.

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Azi Paybarah is a reporter covering breaking news, based in New York. Before joining The Times in 2018 he covered politics for WNYC and The New York Observer. He helped launch the website that later became Politico New York and co-founded the FAQ NYC podcast. He is a lifelong New Yorker and graduate of the University at Albany.

From The Tumalo Lookout:

And that’s cop culture at its dirtiest, people.

You can expect that there will always be animals like Hopp in police work. The only question is, “how many?”

But the entire “profession” is guilty of complicity in these crimes, in exactly the same way that Daria Jalali is charged: turning it’s collective head and pretending not to see.

Condoning the criminal conduct, the racism, and the misogyny of the miscreants on the force.

Laughing along with the cruelty and brutality of their fellow pigs.