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Lake City Elder Abuse: Two Canopy Employees Arrested for Battery on an Elderly Resident — What Your Family Needs to Know Now The phone call comes at an hour when nothing good ever calls. A manager at The Canopy. A detective from Lake City Police. Maybe a nurse at the hospital. Someone tells you that the person you moved into 213 NW Gleason Drive — because they could no longer safely live alone, because you trusted a facility to do what you could not — was physically assaulted by the very people you were paying to keep them safe. Then the sentence that drops the floor: there is video. Two former employees of The Canopy — Ta’Naiya Gallon, 26, and Toni Owens, 23 — were arrested and booked into Columbia County Jail, charged with Battery on a Person 65 or Older, after internal security camera footage showed what a Lake City police news release described as “using physical force against an elderly resident in separate incidents, including pushing the resident to the floor and restraining the resident on a couch.” Separate incidents. Two different employees. That detail matters more than anything else in this story, and we will come back…