Video showing US police harassment of an elderly and sick woman
US police officers documented, with their cameras, their violent treatment of an elderly woman suffering from dementia, while she was arrested without a valid reason.
The footage showed policemen approaching a 73-year-old woman named Karen Garner, who posed no threat on the side of a road in Colorado.
Although the incident dates back to late June of last year, the video documenting it has spread recently, US media reported, Tuesday.
The video begins when one of the policemen told the woman "stop," but she did not seem to understand what he wanted, so she continued on her path to chase her, hold her arms firmly, and then cast her to the ground, even though she did not pose a threat.
The elderly woman had just left the famous "Walmart" store, after buying an item worth $ 14, but she forgot to pay for it because of the repercussions of the disease, but the store called the police.
The lawyer for the American woman said that she suffered a broken elbow and dislocated her shoulder during her arrest, according to the British "Sky News" network.
Other video footage shows the policeman putting the handcuffs around her hands, looking like a dangerous criminal.
The police charged the elderly woman with charges of robbery and resisting law enforcement authorities, charges that seemed to the singers extremely absurd and unfair, especially for the woman's very old age.
And it did not stop there, as the police officers who witnessed the arrest in a Colorado police station laughed.
And one of them said, "Are you ready to hear the crackle?"
In reference to the sound of the old man's elbow being broken.
Later, the judicial authorities dropped the charges against the elderly woman and opened an investigation into the excessive use of violence against her.
The investigation came after Karen Garner filed a lawsuit against the police earlier this April, over what happened to her.
The new video sheds light on US police violence, proven by several videos, that resulted in the deaths of some of those pursued by law enforcement forces.
And public opinion in the United States has been suspended by the trial of cop Derek Chauvin, accused in the murder of black man George Floyd last year.
The American judiciary condemned Chauvin in all of the accused in the case, and President Joe Biden saw in the case a huge step towards justice, but that did not stop the crimes of the US police, as human rights activists say.
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