A California woman was awarded a $6.75 million settlement from the Bay Area transit system known as BART after officials made false allegations that she had assaulted an officer who shot her in the back during a traffic stop.
Jasmine Gao, 33, was pulled over by two BART police officers on Nov. 18, 2024. The officers were trying to track down a driver who had been doing doughnuts in the parking lot of Union City station, and suspected Gao might have been the culprit.
After realizing Gao wasn’t the perpetrator, the cops were about to let her go when they discovered her vehicle registration had expired.
Officer Nicholas Poblete asked for Gao’s license, registration, and proof of insurance, but bodycam footage showed him growing increasingly agitated with Gao’s panicked responses to his questions…