Los Angeles – A woman was The unconscious methods were arrested Her lawyer said on Monday that Sharif deputies in northern California after stopping changing drivers during a family trip in 2020, reached a $ 17 million settlement with the province.
Nakia Porter has submitted a federal lawsuit accusing the deputies of the Solano Sharif Province Office, who violates civil rights laws in the United States by engaging in “illegal seizure, attack and excessive force.”
Porter, her father and three young children were driving home at night on August 6, 2020, when they withdrew from the road. Porter, which was black, was already outside the car when the deputies withdrew with flashing lights and made it clear that they were just switching drivers and they would be on their way, according to the lawsuit.
They were recorded by the body cameras worn by deputies as they pulled weapons on a portrait before closing them to the sidewalk while wearing them along a country road in the town of Dixon. Her father, Joe Powell, was also placed in handcuffs and detention for a short period.
Porter was imprisoned overnight on suspicion of resisting detention, but it has never been charged.
“What happened to Mrs. Porter and her family should never happen in our society.”
The Solano Sharif Provincial Administration and the provincial spokesperson did not immediately respond to requests via email to comment after working hours on Monday evening.
The lawsuit also accused the deputies of lying for reports of their arrest on their warriors and the length of the period in which it was unconscious.
“For those who listen, I am not resisting,” a portrait can be heard, saying on the body camera shots. “You do not read my rights to me.”
Then deputies pushed Porter against the team’s car, then to the sidewalk while trying to connect it.
“Place your hands behind your back. Get your stomach,” one of the deputy shouts.
Porter claimed that the deputies had punched it in his head and stomach, kneeling on her back and pulling her hair. She said that she died seconds after the deputies closed the handcuffs.
“I think it’s outside,” can hear a deputy saying on the video.
Porter, which has an area of ​​5 feet and 2 (1.6 meters) and 125 lbs (57 kg), said it was fugitive to the back of the team’s car, reaching about five minutes.
“These deputies have treated less than a person and left a vacuum that we are still struggling to fill it,” Porter said in a press statement on Monday. “I cannot describe what this kind of experience does for someone, but I don’t wish anyone.”