Sacramento County has paid a $1.2 million settlement to an elderly woman who spent months in the hospital with a fractured femur after she was shoved on to the sidewalk by a sheriff’s deputy.
A video of the October 2024 incident showed a deputy shove Ourania Thimmhardy, 71 at the time, out the front door of the Sacramento County Main Jail, while discharging her, causing her to fall on the downtown sidewalk.
Sheriff Jim Cooper fired the deputy who shoved Thimmhardy, Matthew Gurich. The District Attorney’s Office filed felony assault charges, which are pending, with a court date set for July 24. His certification is temporarily suspended due to excessive or unreasonable force from the incident, according to the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training…