Implausible Deniability

THIS from the CO cop that clearly HEARD his victim’s (73 yr. old, dementia patient, Karen Garner) arm break, as he was arresting her, and laughed at the playback, with his colleagues later.

In a statement to the court, Hopp said (he) “misjudged and misread the situation because he was distracted by his personal life “falling apart.”

“I made a terrible mistake that day, a horrible one,” Hopp said. “I didn’t do it because I was angry or to be cruel or for power or control, I really, honestly misjudged the situation. I did not understand what was happening. I responded so wrongly and so poorly.”

I CALL BS!!

This A-hole’s only mistake was getting caught because his crime was …PREMEDITATED!

It is obvious from the video (link above) that he KNEW that Ms. Garner no longer had the Walmart items on her person that were worth less than $14. He had said over his radio that he “Still wanted to talk to her”, and went searching for her, in his patrol vehicle and found her walking home. He was already making veiled threats as he approached her from behind, and he had no way of knowing if she was partially deaf or otherwise disabled.

He absolutely MEANT to hurt this woman or at the very least didn’t care at the time, and had the unmitigated gall to laugh at his own performance, later and high five his colleague when they watched the playback, later.