A cop who is claimed to have dislocated the shoulder of a 73-year-old dementia sufferer and then laughed with colleagues about the way she was rough handled, has been jailed.
Austin Hopp twisted the arm of Karen Garner and pushed her to the floor as she picked flowers in Loveland, north of Denver, in 2020, after she had left a Walmart store without paying for goods valued at $14 (£10).
Footage showed the policeman handcuffing the frail woman and he later shoved her against the bonnet of his car saying: “Are you finished? Are you finished? We don’t play this game.”
