Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 135: Nakia Porter Beaten By Solano County Sheriff Deputies

Published: Dec. 20, 2021, 11:28 a.m.

b"This fall, attorneys for Nakia Porter filed a federal lawsuit for an incident on August 6, 2020 when she and her father were driving home on I-80. They stopped to switch drivers when the police intervened.\\n\\nAt the press conference attorney Yasin Almadani explained that Porter, age 33 and weighing all of 125 pound \\u201chad done nothing wrong\\u201d when she was approached by the deputy and explained that they were simply switching seats.\\n\\nHowever, as she was explaining this, the complaint explained, Deputy McCampbell suddenly appears, pointed his gun at Porter and said, \\u201cGet back in the car now. This is a traffic stop. Get back in the car.\\u201d\\n\\n\\u201cWithout provocation and in a show of brute force, the deputy suddenly decided to handcuff and arrest Nakia as she was complying with their commands,\\u201d he said. \\u201cNakia pleaded in fear for an explanation as her father and children helplessly in a horror inside the car, staying inside because that's what the Sheriff's deputies had ordered them to do.\\u201d\\n\\nThis week on Everyday Injustice Nakia Porter and her Attorney Yasin Almadani talk about the incident, the case, and what it says about policing and race in 21st Century America."