eventCategory: event.slot.getSlotElementId(), Ultimately, Maillaro requested that Jalali face three to four years of probation as well as a 60-day jail sentence. Hopp then roughly took Garner to the ground and placed her in handcuffs, the video showed. window.googletag.pubads().addEventListener('slotRenderEnded', function(event) { Read his latest reports or check out his bio and send him an email. Jalali was sentenced to 45 days of straight jail time and 36 months of probation for her involvement in the 2020 Karen Garner arrest. Hopp was initially charged with assault, attempting to. 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. 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.. Shannon Steward, Garners daughter-in-law, said that the charge Jalali faces comes from a new Colorado Senate Bill, SB20-217, which she said states officers have a duty to report and intervene in instances of excessive use of force. A former Loveland police officer was sentenced to prison for assaulting Karen Garner, a 73-year-old woman with dementia, during a June 2020 arrest. }); } "Her actions in this case were not malicious or intentional," her lawyer said. The arrest left then 73-year-old Garner, previous information alleges, with a dislocated shoulder and broken arm. You understand me? "This really does make your stomach clench when you see it. She said she approached without knowledge of what may have happened before. She noted that she asked Garner multiple times if she was in need of medical attention, but felt Garner was simply being defiant by not responding h. "I hurt others and I am sorry about that," Jalali said. "I truly did get into the line of work to serve the community.". Are you finished? he said. Asked by Jalali how it went, Hopp can be heard replying: I thought it went great., Did you not? he said. 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. The judge credited Jalali with repetitively asking Garner if she needed medical attention, but scolded her for not using common sense to realize that Garner needed the help without verbalizing it. Have a tip or story idea? A video captured on a police body camera last year showed Garner repeatedly saying she was trying to go home while picking flowers. pg.acq.push(function() { },false) she asks. Her next court date is June 22, NBC affiliate KUSA of Denver reported. },false) We dont play this game. Ex-officer Austin Hopp was sentenced in May to five years in prison for roughing up the 80-pound woman. eventAction: 'click_image_ads' hitType: 'event', 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. A cemetery posted a personal ad for a goose whose mate died. It never should have happened," the judge said. eventAction: 'click_image_ads' The situation disturbed a male bystander, but Hopp told him he did not know the whole story. Several of Jalali's neighbors confirmed to the news outlet that Hopp and Jalali had been living together but were aloof and unfriendly. 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. After a brief investigation, Hopp resigned from the Loveland Police Department, as did Jalali. Denver Metro News. }); Hear the pop?. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Yeah, Im a little worried that shes like senile and stuff, Hopp can be heard saying at one point. He also sentenced her to 45 days in jail with two days of credit for time served. if(document.querySelector("#adunit")){ 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. eventCategory: event.slot.getSlotElementId(), According to 9News in Denver, Loveland Police Department officers Austin Hopp and Daria Jalali, Sergeant Phil Metzler and community service officer Tyler Blackett are all on administrative leave . Hopp and former officer Daria Jalali were charged in May 2021, almost a year after the arrest of Garner, who was 73 when the incident took place. 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. The Loveland Police Department, in consultation with the District Attorney and regional law enforcement partners, sought the criminal investigation under the Critical Incident Response Team (CIRT) protocol, a process that preserves impartiality and integrity in the conduct of such investigations. Daily Mail revealed that Jalali and Hopp are lovers. ga('ads.send', { We dont play this game. Larimer County jail records show Austin Hopp, 26, was arrested at 8:32 a.m. and that Daria Jalali, 27, was arrested at 9:48 a.m. Warrants had been issued for their arrest on Wednesday after they were each charged with three counts for the actions during the arrest of Karen Garner last year and the reporting of the incident that followed. 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. However, after reviewing the content and the body camera footage, the judge said he "gets stomachaches" watching the body camera footage. 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"He took pride in humiliating my mom," he said. 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. According to the lawsuit, she was held in that cell for two and a half hours before being taken to the hospital. You need to recognize that.. He said that he had not watched any of the video or media that had been posted about the case prior to Friday, and hearing Garners voice for the first time as she said she was going home in the video was incredibly eye-opening. "What?" You are a lot tougher than she is. eventAction: 'load' 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.. }); John Steward said while he does not feel Jalali was remorseful, he thinks it will set in pretty quick., We are just glad we are at this point finally, he said. Jalali told the judge that she believed Garner was just complaining about the tightness of the handcuffs when she said she was in pain. I want her to learn that it is better to take what you are feeling inside that you know is wrong and take that for what it is worth and do what is right, she said. eventCategory: event.slot.getSlotElementId(), 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. READ MORE, Lin Wood says Walmart food has 'fetal tissues', calls Rockefeller 'devil worshipper', Karen Garners family slams arrest that left elderly dementia patient with dislocated shoulder, fractured arm, After the old lady turned away from Hopp, the officer grabbed her arm, pushed her to the ground, and handcuffed her. 4. let gads_event; Philip Metzlerare on administrative duties. } Another neighbor said the couple were very touchy-feely in public. As part of a plea agreement, Jalali promised to never apply for another law enforcement job either public or private. "They were all over each other, touching each other, laughing, kissing, and hugging right in the front yard. 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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.. The arrest of Garner took place in June 2020 and made it to the national headlines. There was more than just that guy., Later in the video, Hopp said, I cant believe I threw a 73-year-old on the ground.. media-tech companies with hubs around the world. Officer Austin Hopp arrived. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. She pleaded guilty to that charge in late June. }) },false) The lawsuit alleges Loveland police officers Austin Hopp and Daria Jalali and Sgt. A woman who entered the courtroom with Jalali, and who sat behind her in the first row of the courtroom, was seen wiping away tears during the judge's comments. "I wish I would have just called medical services to check her out," Jalali said. She is heard repetitively telling Hopp she was going home, advocates for those living with dementia say her confusion was apparent and should've changed how Hopp and Jalali responded. } "You have to remember this went on for two hours," the judge said. She added that she is not sure how (Jalali) can be proud in her assistance in the arrest of Garner, who she said was not only 73-years-old but barely 5-feet tall and less than 100 pounds. The case became the focus of international headlines, putting Jalali, co-defendant Austin Hopp, and the LPD as a whole into spotlight. The Loveland police chief, Robert Ticer, announced the departures of officers Austin Hopp and Daria Jalali and the community services officer Tyler Blackett in connection to the arrest of Karen. A bodycam video revealed Karen Garner, 73, a dementia patient, being harassed by a cop while a colleague laughed. 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. Despite the fact that Garner was unarmed, her hands were cuffed behind her back, and she was physically unable to overpower Officers Austin Hopp and Daria Jalali while shoved against the hood of a patrol car, Hopp was recorded on police body cam footage dislocating her shoulder, fracturing her humerus, and spraining her wrist.The charges against Garner were later dropped. }); Austin Hopp will spend just five years in prison after cutting a deal for the brutal assault that broke the wrist and popped the shoulder of 73-year-old dementia patient Karen Garner. 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. Swartz said that Garner was humiliated by Jalali and Hopp. I introduced myself to Austin but he wasn't that friendly," a neighbor said. You were definitely fighting, he said. The footage, newly released by the Life & Liberty Law Office, picks up later in the day, with officers bantering during the womans booking. 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. }); Describing herself as possibly naive and immature, Jalali apologized to Garner and her family. A male bystander was so disturbed that he called out Hopp, but the officer dismissed his concerns. Officer Austin Hopp and two others who mocked a woman with dementia were fired Credit: Loveland Police Department/Facebook. 2022 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. The District Attorneys action and the third-party investigation are in keeping with a multi-agency Critical Incident Response Team protocol. Jalali didn't appear to show emotion as the video played including the moment her comment of "I'm a little bloody and a little muddy but that's how it works," comment was played. Hopp, according to the video, told Jalali to help him get Garner on the ground. "We should not have kept her in (the cell without medical attention.)". She was given passes, she was pressed forward repeatedly by this department when she was falling below where she should have been in standards, she said. let gads_event; He made no reference to Karen personally. Lehman sentenced Jalali to 3 years of supervised probation with 250 hours of community service. Ms. Karen Garner arrest: Who are Austin Hopp and Daria Jalali? As a police officer and more importantly as a human being, we engage, we process and we act, he said. Update 7:20 p.m.:Garner family attorneySarah Schielkesaid in a statement obtained by Law&Crime that it was long overdue for the three officers to become unemployed, but voiced concern about Metzler still being part of the department, and Hill remaining on duty. eventAction: 'click_ads' "Well, I thought it went great," Hopp said in the video, adding, "I think we crushed it." 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. He then hogtied her by the ankles and forced her into the car, the video showed. "I made a terrible mistake that day," he said. The judge suggested that Jalali's lack of actions to help Garner that day may have been dogged by her romantic involvement with Hopp. The attorney said that because of the dementia, Garner forgot to pay for the items, which were retrieved by Walmart employees. Daria Jalali: 'Laughing' cop faces jail for standing by as colleague brutally arrested dementia patient Karen Garner. if(document.querySelector("#google_image_div")){ This is not the result of a mental deficit, this is not a result of a lack of training. ga('ads.send', { eventCategory: event.slot.getSlotElementId(), The trajectory of her life has dramatically changed because of the incidents in this case, she said. She was also sentenced to undergo a mental health evaluation and must avoid contact with the Garner family while also maintaining employment of at least 35 hours per week.