[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - Loveland, Colorado settles police brutality lawsuit for $3million
- The victim is Karen Garner, a 73-year-old woman with dementia, who was left in a jail cell with injuries for more than six hours
- Now-former Loveland Police Officers Austin Hopp, 26, and Daria Jalali, 27, were seen in bodycam footage slamming Garner to the ground
- Neither is with the police department and both are facing criminal charges
- 'This is justice for mom,' Allisa Swartz said while fighting back tears during a Wednesday press conference
- Garner's family and lawyer Sarah Schielke called on the city to make drastic changes to the police department
- Schielke said if Chief Ticer is fired or resigns within 30 days, she will donate $50,000 to an Alzheimer's or dementia charity of his choice
- Loveland City Manager Stephen Adams apologized to Garner's family in a statement released on Wednesday
- Police Chief Bob Ticer said in a statement that 'there is no excuse, under any circumstances, for what happened to Ms. Garner'
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