Lawmakers stepped up penalties for officers in the wake of nationwide police protests in 2020
A former police officer from Loveland, Colorado, was sentenced Friday to 45 days in jail for her role in the rough arrest of a 73-year-old woman with dementia in 2020.
Daria Jalali earlier pleaded guilty in the arrest of Karen Garner. She had faced up to 60 days in jail for failing to step in when another officer was being rough with the woman. Following her jail sentence, Jalali will have three years of probation.
Lawmakers stepped up penalties for the crime in 2020 as part of a police reform bill passed during protests over racial injustice and police brutality that year.
Former officer Austin Hopp arrested Garner after she left a store without paying for about $14 worth of items. Police body camera video released last year shows Garner repeatedly saying that she was trying to go home.