A federal civil rights lawsuit brought by a woman beaten unconscious in front of her family by deputies accused of arresting her without probable cause has been settled for $17 million in California, her attorney announced.
Nakia Porter had been driving to her home in Sacramento from Oakland with her father, her children, ages 4 and 6, and her 3-year-old niece the evening of Aug. 6, 2020, when she encountered two Solano County sheriff’s deputies after she stopped her car on a dead-end road, according to her lawsuit.
Porter stopped to switch seats with her father, J.B. Powell, who was going to take over for the rest of the drive so she could relax, the lawsuit says…