Deputies Knocked A Woman Unconscious And Then Lied About It, A Federal Lawsuit Says

[Jilly_in_VA]

A woman who pulled off a road to change drivers during a trip with her father and three young children was knocked unconscious and arrested by two Northern California sheriff's deputies, who then lied about the encounter to responding paramedics and on official reports, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday.

Body cameras worn by the deputies with the Solano County Sheriff's Office recorded them pulling guns on Nakia Porter before slamming her to the pavement while handcuffing her along a rural road in the town of Dixon on the night of Aug. 6, 2020. Porter's father, Joe Powell, was also placed in handcuffs and briefly detained.

Porter was jailed overnight on suspicion of resisting arrest, but never charged. She said the ordeal was confusing and dehumanizing.

"I was doing my best to do everything right, giving no reason to be treated like this," said Porter, 33, who is Black.

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/19/1029240838/deputies-knocked-nakia-porter-unconscious-federal-lawsuit-solano-county

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1. Horrible. These cops should be jailed and the family financially rewarded...

the racism they were subjected to. And that department needs to better screen its officer candidates as these two prone-to-violence dummies should never have been on a police force.

I mean they both had on operating body cameras that recorded what they did then, tried to lie their way out of their brutality.