After five years of seeking “justice for Nakia,” a historic $17 million settlement has been reached for a former Sacramento County mother who was dragged and beaten unconscious by Solano County sheriff’s deputies in 2020.
“The settlement is one of the largest in California history for a case of this type,” said Yasin M. Almadani, Nakia Porter’s Southern California-based attorney, in a statement shared with The OBSERVER.
Porter, a software engineer living in Orangevale at the time, and her family filed a federal lawsuit against the Solano County Sheriff’s Office on Aug. 18, 2021, for excessive force and civil rights violations. The lawsuit accused two deputies — Dalton McCampbell and Lisa McDowell — of beating Porter on Aug. 6, 2020, and alleging the department hid video footage from dash and body cameras…