Video Shows California Deputies Using Excessive Force Against Black Woman Knocking Her Unconscious
Porter was jailed overnight on suspicion of resisting arrest, however, was never charged. She says the ordeal was dehumanizing.
“I was doing my best to do everything right, giving no reason to be treated like this,” said Porter, 33. The suit filed by attorney Yasin Almadani accuses the deputies of violating state and federal civil rights by practicing in “unlawful seizure, assault and excessive force.”
“Thankfully, the video evidence contradicted the fabricated facts,” Almadani said. “So what occurred here, we believe, was a racially motivated beating and terrorizing of a Black family.”
The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Sacramento asks a judge to order a jury trial for the arresting deputies, Dalton McCampbell and Lisa McDowell, along with seeking unspecified damages. The incident took place while Porter and her 61-year-old father were on their way to Orangevale, northeast of Sacramento, after a family trip to Oakland. Her two daughters, ages 3 and 6, and her 4-year-old niece were in the back seat. Porter is a software engineer, and her father, who’s retired, worked in computer networking.
Porter was stopped along an empty road in Dixon and the deputies’ squad car came behind them pulling them over.
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