family of an elderly Madness The patient who was seen being brutally arrested was a Colorado Shocking video footage shows police expressing their disgust over a controversial plea deal that could set him free in a year.
Officer Austin Hope, 26, was fired and his police body cam caught him slamming 73-year-old Karen Garner to the ground, breaking her arm.
The 80-pound grandmother was left in a jail cell moaning in pain for six hours, while Hop repeated the unfortunate arrest to her colleagues, claiming: ‘We crushed it!’
With felony charges of second-degree assault, attempting to influence a public servant and official misconduct, the rookie Loveland Police Department cop faced 30 years behind bars.
However, Garner’s family learned last week that prosecutors were offering perverted bullying that would reduce their charges and potentially reduce their sentence by just a few years if they were rubber-stamped at an upcoming plea hearing. They went. ,
Bodycam footage shows Hope throwing Karen Garner to the ground on June 26, 2020
Garner’s daughter-in-law, Shannon Steward, said the incident was “the lowest form of human behavior and indecency”.
Garner’s daughter-in-law, Shannon Steward, told DailyMail.com that her fans are strongly opposed to the settlement and that Hope will appeal to the judge heartily when she appears at the Larimer County Courthouse on Wednesday morning.
‘Karen didn’t protest. He didn’t fight. He didn’t swear. He didn’t do anything to deserve this inhumane treatment,’ said Steward, who is married to Garner’s son John.
‘You’d expect the officer to bring him home safely, don’t abuse him, throw him down, attack him and then lock him up with a dislocated shoulder for six hours.
‘We think there is more than enough evidence to get a guilty verdict so why deal now? It is not justice to cheapen what happened to Karen.
The steward says his grumpy, outgoing mother-in-law never recovered from the brutal ordeal of June 2020 at the hands of Hop, who chased him to pay for $13 worth of items at Walmart, including Pepsi and candy bars. ,
Camera footage of Hope’s body shows her holding her as she walks through a field
Garner’s family said she was a happy grandmother (right) before her painful arrest in June 2020, where she was left in a prison cell with pain, her broken arm still locked behind her (left) .
Body-worn camera footage shows her holding Garner as she picks flowers on her way home and barely seconds before burying her on the ground. Give her a hug.
Garner, who often forgets things because he suffers from dementia and sensory aphasia, cries out in pain and repeats the phrase ‘I’m going home’ over and over as the snoring officer takes him to his squad car. Is. Is.
While she was crying in pain for the next six hours due to a fractured arm and dislocated shoulder, Hope was recorded laughing and joking on her police department’s CCTV system as she played her footage back to coworkers. ,
‘Ready to pop?’ He was heard saying he had resurfaced after pinning Garner to his vehicle and violently shoving his hand behind her back.
‘I think it went very well. I think we crushed it,’ he smiled as his partner, Daria Jalali, celebrates. ‘I was like, ‘Okay, let’s go wrestling, girl. Let’s ruin it!’
Garner did not face further action, but criminal charges were filed against 27-year-old Hop and Jalali for causing damage to video evidence.
Steward told DailyMail.com that Loveland city leaders fired the two and paid the now 75-year-old Garner $3 million, but nothing could repair the damage done to his declining quality of life.
After a warrant is issued for their arrest, Austin Hope, left, and Daria Jalali, right, turn themselves in.
Prior to the incident, her mother-in-law lived alone with the constant watch of the family, who used a tracker on her phone to find out where she was.
He left her at home the day Hope misbehaved with her.
Today, she lives in a facility for dementia patients, suffers from PTSD and no longer recognizes her three children and nine grandchildren.
‘Karen would repeat things, she would show me her new bedspread three times when I was visiting, that sort of thing. But she was not leaving the hearth, it was not dangerous. He liked to walk, he liked to be active,” Steward said.
‘After the incident all she could say was why did they do this to me? Why did he do this to me? She couldn’t discuss it, she just repeated herself over and over.
‘He didn’t trust anyone. The doctors and nurses tried to enter her room and she used to lock the doors. She wanted to be alone. She did not get the Covid vaccine as she would not let anyone touch her.
‘We were told by her care facility that PTSD had accelerated her dementia. She wouldn’t even let us hug.
Garner’s family say they were looking forward to an April trial for Hop when Assistant District Attorney Matt Malaro contacted them last week asking them to review a possible plea deal that could be less serious. Is. Will eliminate the charges and reduce the charge of assault.
Steward says the family spent hours debating what was best before deciding to reject it—only for Malaro to move on regardless.
He will come face-to-face with Hop at this week’s plea hearing where he has been advised that Judge Michelle Brinegar could sentence him to two to six years in prison.
Considering his clean record, good behavior and Colorado’s emergency COVID directives, Hop fears he could be back on the streets in a year.
‘We were stunned. We were sad. Karen doesn’t have the ability to understand what’s going on in the case but we as a family reviewed it and said, clearly not,’ Steward said.
‘There is a lot of evidence and it is our position that it should go to trial. Less than 24 hours later he said he was doing it anyway.
‘It’s not just us, it’s our city – the video went global, the world was outraged when they saw that video. We have to go before the judge and beg Karen to give her what she deserves, her day in court.’
The DA’s office declined to provide further details about the potential plea deal.
DailyMail.com revealed last April that Hope and Jalali, who lost their jobs for their role in Garner’s arrest, were previously in a romantic relationship.
He faces misdemeanor charges of using excessive force, failure to intervene and failing to report first-degree official misconduct.