12/8/2023 0 Comments Loveland herald blotter police![]() “We want to be treated with respect and dignity and I want to see that happen not just for Karen but for everyone here. (Austin Fleskes / Loveland Reporter-Herald) Ritter recently read a letter signed by over 100 community members during a Loveland City Council meeting illustrating their frustrations with Garner’s case. Shane Ritter calls for the crowd to cheer during the Justice for Karen Garner event at the corner of Monroe Avenue and 10th Street, near the Loveland Police and Courts building, May 1, 2021. She said that the Loveland community deserves to feel safe where they live and from the officers who are sworn to serve them. Jen Castaneda, a Loveland resident who helped Goldschmidt plan the event, said Garner’s case is very close to her heart, as she has had family members who suffered from dementia and Alzheimer’s. She said after the event that while she is unsure exactly how many people showed, over 100 marked themselves as going on the Facebook event and 486 marked themselves as interested. Goldschmidt said that while she has no organizing experience, she wanted to show the community’s backing of Garner’s family. “(Garner’s) is a face that I will never be able to get out of my mind, and I think that is the same for a lot of people.” “It showed a culture within (the) police department that it is not just a life or death decision they have to make,” she said. Longmont resident Morgan Goldschmidt, who created the event, said she initially started the Facebook page between a few of her friends to discuss what was happening with Garner’s case. She said when she watched the first video, released in the original lawsuit, she was appalled. Box and Trujillo are friends with Garner’s granddaughter Jessa Swartz, and came to Saturday’s event to show support for Garner and her family. Taylor Box and Mia Trujillo hold a sign during the Justice for Karen Garner event at the corner of Monroe Avenue and 10th Street, near the Loveland Police and Courts building, May 1, 2021. It was later announced that the three had resigned. Five LPD members were named in the civil rights lawsuit, and after the surfacing of video footage from Garner’s time being held at the LPD, three have resigned.ĭuring a press conference Friday, chief Bob Ticer announced that officers Austin Hopp and Daria Jalali as well as community service officer Tyler Blackett, all three of whom were named in the lawsuit, were no longer with the department. Garner has reached national attention after a lawsuit was filed on her behalf after she was arrested by Loveland police in 2020. Screams for justice and songs of love rang out in central Loveland Saturday, as a crowd of community members gathered to demand justice for Karen Garner and support her and her family.
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