Truly Back the Blue By Demanding Our Rights Not Be Violated

How do these kinds of things happen? They happen in societies where the institutions charged with protecting our rights are allowed to be the ones who violate them. The family of Karen Garner, a 73-year-old woman suffering from dementia, is suing Loveland police for the arrest of Garner nearly a year ago. Bodycam footage shows a clearly confused and helpless Garner being violently arrested, her shoulder being pulled out of joint and fractured, and the arresting officer not even attempting to diffuse the situation.

Her alleged crime? She walked out of a Wal-Mart without paying for $13 worth of goods. Wal-Mart stopped her and recovered the goods, then apparently called Loveland police who tracked down the confused woman walking on the side of the road.

WARNING – Disturbing footage:

Later video from the police’s security cameras (obtained by Garner’s lawyer and released) shows officers reviewing the bodycam footage and laughing. Officers Austin Hopp and Daria Jalaliare now under investigation by Colorado authorities:

In other police-badly-need-reform news, the Daily Wire has compiled a montage of police around the world abusing and victimizing citizens for the apparently horrific crimes of not wearing masks, social distancing, or daring to protest lockdown restrictions:

These are but a small sample of the kind of violent abuse that takes place when government institutions decide that rights are optional depending on the situation. As soon as the inviolable wall of human rights is breached by situational compromising (this infringement is only temporary, etc.), human history shows that so-called protectors of our rights quickly become tyrannical, abusive, and inhuman.