{"id":266014,"date":"2025-09-30T08:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T08:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/266014\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T08:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T08:13:11","slug":"california-woman-violently-arrested-by-sheriffs-deputies-secures-17m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/266014\/","title":{"rendered":"California woman violently arrested by sheriff’s deputies secures $17M"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES — A woman who was knocked unconscious and arrested<\/a> by two sheriff’s deputies in Northern California after stopping to change drivers during a family trip in 2020 has reached a $17 million settlement with the county, her lawyer said Monday.<\/p>\n

Nakia Porter had filed a federal lawsuit accusing the Solano County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies violating state and federal civil rights statutes by engaging in \u201cunlawful seizure, assault and excessive force.\u201d<\/p>\n

Porter, her father and her three young children were driving home at night on Aug. 6, 2020, when they pulled off the road. Porter, who is a Black, was already out of the car when the deputies pulled up with lights flashing and she explained that they were just switching drivers and would be on their way, according to the lawsuit.<\/p>\n

Body cameras worn by the deputies recorded them pulling guns on Porter before slamming her to the pavement while handcuffing her along a rural road in the town of Dixon. Her father, Joe Powell, was also placed in handcuffs and briefly detained.<\/p>\n

Porter was jailed overnight on suspicion of resisting arrest, but never charged. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhat happened to Ms. Porter and her family should never happen in our society,\u201d Porter’s attorney Yasin Almadani said in a news release announcing the settlement.<\/p>\n

The Solano County Sheriff\u2019s Department and a spokesperson for the county did not immediately respond to emailed requests for comment after business hours Monday evening.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit also accused the deputies of lying on their arrest reports about Porter fighting them and the length of time she was unconscious.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor those that are listening, I am not resisting,\u201d Porter can be heard saying on the body camera footage. \u201cYou are not reading me my rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

The deputies then push Porter against the squad car and then to the pavement while trying to handcuff her.<\/p>\n

\u201cPut your hands behind your back. Get on your stomach,\u201d one deputy shouts.<\/p>\n

Porter alleged the deputies punched her in the head and the stomach, kneeled on her back and pulled her hair. She said she passed out seconds after the deputies closed the handcuffs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think she\u2019s out,\u201d a deputy can be heard saying on the video.<\/p>\n

Porter, who is 5-foot-2 (1.6 meters) and 125 pounds (57 kilograms), said she was dragged unconscious to the back of the squad car, where she came to about five minutes later.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese deputies treated us less than human and left a void we are still struggling to fill,” Porter said in Monday’s news release. \u201cI cannot describe what this type of experience does to a person, but I wish it on no one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES — A woman who was knocked unconscious and arrested by two sheriff’s deputies in Northern California…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":266015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[138739,347,57,51,2936,336,362,50,52,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-266014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-138739","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-general-news","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-law-enforcement","13":"tag-lawsuits","14":"tag-legal-proceedings","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-top-stories","17":"tag-u-s-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115292248777852709","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}