The Denver Gazette has also reached out to the other parties' attorneys for comment. He said that he will never forget the footage that he had seen of Garners arrest, adding that Jalali has no idea the stress, pain and sadness it has inflicted on their entire family. Living at Kimberly Court can seem like living in the most convenient location in Boulder. hitType: 'event', Hopp is then seen grabbing Garner by the arm and forcefully taking her to the ground, CBS Denver reported. gads_event = event; "We should not have kept her in (the cell without medical attention.)". hitType: 'event', A male bystander was so disturbed that he called out Hopp, but the officer dismissed his concerns. Daria Jalali, the 28-year-old cop, received three years of probation in addition to jail time. The maximum sentence of failure to intervene comes with up to 60 days in jail and five years of probation. There are a lot of kids in this neighborhood and the amount of PDA was a little weird," they said. A department spokesperson, Tom Hacker, later confirmed they had resigned. She said that she always tries to have the best intentions, and truly got into the line of work to help and serve others. 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. Emailus. eventCategory: event.slot.getSlotElementId(), Garner was taken to a holding facility at the Loveland Police Department, where she complained multiple times about having injuries, CBS Denver reported. 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The district attorney's office argued that the Garner family's request for at least three years of probation, and added jail time was warranted. Ready for the pop? Hopp said. Both Jalali and Hopp resigned on April 30 amid an internal investigation, the Daily Beast reported. While bantering with a male officer, he said later that he was proud because it was the first time he got to use his hobble restraint. Arrest [ edit] External video When Garner began to slump toward the ground, Jalali arrived and said, "Stand up! I think it was her shoulder, Hopp said. } Ultimately, Maillaro requested that Jalali face three to four years of probation as well as a 60-day jail sentence. Please enter valid email address to continue. if(document.querySelector("#google_image_div")){ On May 19, the arresting officer, Austin Hopp, was charged with second-degree assault, attempt to influence a public servant, and official misconduct. The judge said he did not watch any news coverage of the Garner arrest and that he only watched the content provided in court during her hearing. Garner was arrested after she was accused of stealing about $14 worth of items from a Walmart. However, after reviewing the content and the body camera footage, the judge said he "gets stomachaches" watching the body camera footage. 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. Garners son, John Steward, addressed the court before the sentence was announced. Wow. Garner's attorney Sarah Schielke said the video was viewed and conversations about it took place while Garner was in a cell 10 feet away. A cemetery posted a personal ad for a goose whose mate died. The cops resigned after the woman's family sued them and the city of Loveland over the arrest. 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This was a person who was clearly confused. }); Following this, several of Garners family members took to the podium to speak their mind on the sentencing and the case as a whole. Updated on: August 5, 2022 / 4:03 PM Shes just very flexible and very He covered his mouth to whisper something, then said, Did you hear the pop? No doubt, with all the cars that stopped. he says. Are you finished? Hopp can be heard saying. I think that speaks to the deterrent effect for the conviction of this crime., Maillaro, echoing what Shannon Steward had said, pointed out that throughout Garners arrest and holding, Jalali had every opportunity to stop the cruelty.. In his ruling, Lehman continually came back to one word for how he saw the case: incomprehensible. }); },false) MEAWW brings you the best content from its global team of pg.acq.push(function() { She had all of the information she needed, the reason that she did not act . Officer Austin Hopp, who brutally dislocated Karen Garner's shoulder during the arrest on June 26, 2020 after she left Walmart without paying for a candy bar, a can of Pepsi and a t-shirt. 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.. Daria Jalali, 28, was immediately taken into custody after her sentencing Friday to serve a 45-day jail sentence. Independent comment from the Loveland Police Department would not be appropriate at this time. 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. Around the mid-way point, one of the officers (apparently one of the guys) farted. "The pop" alludes to something in the video, but what it is is unclear. The now-former officers include Austin Hopp, who was the arresting officer during the June 26, 2020 incident; Daria Jalali, who was the second on the scene; and community service officer Tyler Blackett, who is being sued for allegedly ignoring the plaintiff's injuries. },false) Former Loveland police officers Austin Hopp, left, and Daria Jalali Hopp dislocated Garner's shoulder and fractured her arm. When she arrived, officer Austin Hopp who has also since left the . window.googletag.pubads().addEventListener('slotOnload', function(event) { Hopp was senteced to five years in prison with three years of mandatory parole for his guilty plea to second-degree assualt stemming from his 2020 arrest of Karen Garner. Law&Crime reached out for comment about the new surveillance footage. ga('ads.send', { The plaintiff, who the lawsuit says suffers from sensory aphasia that interferes with her communicative abilities, turned to walk away. 2023 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. ', Thats going to turn into something, Jalali said. Please enter valid email address to continue. reporters on a platform technologically tailored to meet the needs of the modern reader. 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. InLarimer County Court in early March, Hopp pleaded guilty to an assault charge that was punishable by 2 to 8 years in prison. MEAWW brings you the best content from its global team of You need to recognize that.. As first reported by CBS Denver, the Larimer County District Attorney's Office elected to move forward with a plea agreement against the will of the Garner family. The fact that two law enforcement officers couldnt comprehend that is incomprehensible to me. We are one of the worlds fastest growing IE 11 is not supported. I haven't seen either of them around since." Hopp, Jalali and Blackett have become the focus of several investigations in connection with Garner's arrest in 2020 after an excessive use of force lawsuit placed on Garner's behalf by attorney Sarah Schielke. A second officer on the scene, Daria Jalali, was charged with failure to intervene, failure to report the use of excessive force, and official misconduct. The assault significantly worsened Garner's dementia symptoms. Karen Garner's arm was broken during an arrest by Loveland PD officers, her attorney said. Jalali's lawyer also said accusations that her client was not remorseful were inaccurate. She is a co-defendant in the lawsuit, and they seem to give each other high marks on the interaction. Its like Live PD, Jalali said, referring to the former reality TV show following police on patrol. Daria Jalali, the second officer to respond to a call involving Garner, previously pleaded guilty to a charge of Failure to Intervene. See, you dont know the whole situation, said Hopp. 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. } }); Grandmother with dementia died from face wound neglected by staff for days. is at least part of a malicious intent. Alongside these three, Sgt. }); LOVELAND, COLORADO: A former Colorado police officer has been arrested and sentenced to jail 45 days in jail after she was unable to stop a colleague from roughing up Karen Garner in 2020. gads_event = event; 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. ga('ads.send', { Hopp, 26, was charged with using excessive force and purposefully misleading his supervisors. From our perspective, what we see in this evaluation, is Ms. Jalali was not in a position to do that because of her psychological makeup, she said. Garner, who has dementia, allegedly tried to steal less than $15 worth of goods from the store. Jalali was sentenced to 45 days in jail, 36 months probation and 250 hours of community service. Hopp left the police department in April 2021. The prosecution was quick to tell the judge they felt Jalali's actions were not the result of a lack of training or a mental deficiency, but rather a lack of human decency. She said that she truly believed that Garner was just being uncooperative both during the arrest and at the station, with her thought being that Garner was only complaining about the handcuffs so she could get out of them. A third officer, Tyler Blackett . ", "What happened in June of 2020 was an abysmal failure. Garner reportedly has dementia. He said that beyond even the arrest and video, the pre-sentence investigation showed that there was a continuation of indifference to the entire case. I am not done, this is not over, she said. Right, said Jalali. The entire incident was caught on bodycam footage. [emailprotected]. Garner's children sat in the court room during the judge's comments at times nodding their heads, audibly agreeing and even smiling at times when the judge acknowledged points they have argued for years. Jalali, the other officer at the scene, was charged with failure to report use of force, failure to intervene and official misconduct. (Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald), FORT COLLINS, CO - AUGUST 5, 2022: Former Loveland police officer Daria Jalali is taken into custody on Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, during her sentencing hearing at the Larimer County Justice Center in Fort Collins. Jalali was also charged with official misconduct and failing to stop or report Hopp's actions. He made no reference to Karen personally. An audible pop is heard on the camera, something Hopp acknowledged hearing in footage later released by Loveland police. eventAction: 'click_adunit' She argued that the files show that Jalali truly did not know any better when she arrived on scene the day of Garners arrest and did not act with any malicious intent. Blackett responds by saying, "the bodycam show" amid someone's giggles. She lives with cortical dementia and sensory aphasia, a condition described as an inability to understand spoken, written or tactile speech symbols that results from damage to the area of the brain concerned with language, according to the complaint. "They used to park both of their police cars in the driveway of the house. ga('ads.send', { We all have choices to make in life, and all our choices have consequences, he said. First published on August 5, 2022 / 10:12 AM. Updated on: May 6, 2022 / 7:11 AM The two officers have been identified as Austin Hopp and Daria Jalali of the Loveland Police Department. DENVER (AP) Three more police officers involved in the rough arrest of a 73-year-old Colorado woman with dementia have been placed on leave, an official said Wednesday. Ex-Loveland police officer Daria Jalali was sentenced to 45 days in jail for her role in the brutal 2020 arrest of Karen Garner, prosecutors announced on Friday. The officer took her to the ground and handcuffed her. The video, which contains subtitles PEOPLE has not independently verified, allegedly shows Officer Austin Hopp, Officer Daria Jalali, and Community Service Officer Tyler Blackett all named in . Those files, she said, depict a pattern of poor performance on written examinations, physical activities, behavioral observations and more, that were all excused. 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. ga('create', 'UA-67136960-15', 'auto', 'ads'); The hour-long video released Monday shows Loveland Police Department officers Austin Hopp and Daria Jalali, who responded to the incident, and a third officer Tyler Blackett celebrating and. 4. 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. 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. pg.acq.push(function() { Garner is out of the room at the time. }) Larimer County District Attorney Gordon McLaughlin extended his sympathies to the Garner family again, saying it has been a long haul., He added that this is the first time in Larimer County that a person has been convicted for failure to intervene and said this will send a message about how the DAs office will handle bad actors.. Jalali told the judge that she believed Garner was just complaining about the tightness of the handcuffs when she said she was in pain. Hopp and former officer Daria Jalali were charged in May 2021, almost a year after the arrest of the then-73-year-old Garner. 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. Two other officers, Jalali and Tyler Blackett, also left the department. reporters on a platform technologically tailored to meet the needs of the modern reader. 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. Asked by Jalali how it went, Hopp can be heard replying: I thought it went great., Did you not? he said. Jalali was given a badge to protect and to serve and that is not what she did, she said. "I love it," Hopp hits back. 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. Daria Jalali, 28, appeared before 8th Judicial District Court Judge Joshua Lehman Friday morning to be sentenced for failure to intervene in the use of excessive force, a class 1 misdemeanor. Three Colorado police officers involved in the arrest of a 73-year-old woman with dementia who was shown being pushed to the ground and handcuffed on body-camera footage have resigned, police said on Friday. eventCategory: event.slot.getSlotElementId(), pg.acq.push(function() { (Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald), FORT COLLINS, CO - MAY 5, 2022: Former Loveland Police Officer Austin Hopp enters the courtroom for his sentencing hearing Thursday, May 5, 2022, at the Larimer County Justice Center in Fort Collins. Throughout the arrest and the hours following, Jalali had every opportunity to stop the cruelty and do the right thing, but did not, he said. Philip Metzler was named in the original lawsuit; he was accused of helping cover up what happened and helping deny Garner access to medical care. He then hogtied her by the ankles and forced her into the car, the video showed. Jalali pleaded guilty to a charge of failure to intervene with an officer using excessive force, which is a crime committed by lawmakers and is a part of a reform bill that was passed during protests over racial injustice and police brutality in 2020. / CBS Colorado. He picked her up, bent her over the hood of his vehicle, and twisted her left arm. Austin Hopp was sentenced to five years in. Describing herself as possibly naive and immature, Jalali apologized to Garner and her family. The video shows Hopp, Jalali and Blackett laughing as they begin to watch the body camera footage of Garner's arrest. pg.acq.push(function() { When she tried to turn around, the officer bent her left arm up near her head. Another neighbor said the couple were very touchy-feely in public. There was a brief pause. eventCategory: event.slot.getSlotElementId(), It is part of a group-think mentality that occurred that day.. 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"There is nothing I want more than to go back in time and fix this.". Officers Austin Hopp, Daria Jalali and community service officer Tyler Blackett are "no longer employed with the Loveland Police Department," Ticer announced in a morning press conference. window.googletag.pubads().addEventListener('impressionViewable', function(event) { The law makes it clear that sometimes there is going to be an officer that acts outside of their legal duties, and that is why we have a law that says if you do see that you have to act.. In June, a Walmart employee called police and said a woman, later identified as 73-year-old Karen Garner, tried to leave without paying for $14 worth of items. "(Jalali) did nothing but to help," the prosecution shared to the court. This is what it appears to be by the defendant, he said. eventAction: 'load' Three police officers resigned after they and the city of Loveland, Colorado were sued over the rough arrest of 73-year-old Karen Garner, who a lawsuit says has cortical dementia. Body-camera footage showing Karen Garner being pushed to the ground and handcuffed led to outpouring of anger. Daria Jalali, the 28-year-old cop, received three years of probation in addition to jail time. A former Loveland police officer is now the second officer to be sentenced by a court for her role in the rough arrest of Karen Garner, a woman living with dementia. eventAction: 'view' 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.. She was arrested by another cop, officer Austin Hopp, after leaving a Walmart without paying $14 worth of items which included a candy bar, a Pepsi, and a t-shirt. } Noting that the treatment of Garner in the city about 50 miles north of Denver last year had led to an outpouring of concern and anger in the community, the country and around the world, Ticer apologized. let gads_event; In the video, Hopp gives his partner Jalali a fist bump when asked how the arrest went, CNN reported. ga('ads.send', { This is the result of a choice.. I introduced myself to Austin but he wasn't that friendly," a neighbor said. I was super excited, he said, and recounted his version of what happened. MEAWW is an initialism for Media Entertainment Arts WorldWide. Hopp, according to the video, told Jalali to help him get Garner on the ground. "This whole thing was tragic. document.querySelector("#google_image_div").addEventListener('click',function(){ }) Daria Jalali is seen at left and Austin Hopp is seen at right. At the time of Garner's arrest, Metzler was Hopp and Jalali's supervising officer. Read the full story at. Jalali and lawsuit co-defendant Supervising officerSgt. 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. Jalali pleaded guilty in June for failure to intervene in the use of excessive force failing to stop fellow officer Austin Hopp in Garner's brutal arrest. Philip Metzler and Antolina Hill, former officers Daria Jalali and Austin Hopp, and former community service officer Tyler Blackett as individual defendants. She finished by again apologizing and recognizing that she should have acted differently to handle the situation properly. Along with other conditions, Jalali was ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation and comply with any necessary recommendations. "This isn't something where I can see how someone in the heat of the moment thought this was appropriate. However, as the three of them continue to watch, Jalali appears to be uncomfortable with the video. Body camera footage from Hopp showed the officer approaching Garner as she walked home. The case became the focus of international headlines, putting Jalali, co-defendant Austin Hopp, and the LPD as a whole into spotlight. }); A second video released by the attorney showed Hopp and other officers at the police station laughing and joking about the arrest. As seen on video, Hopp confronted Garner on the side of the road. "Hear the pop?"
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