Jury awards $8.25M to Black mother, daughters handcuffed outside Castro Valley Starbucks
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- A federal jury awarded a mother and two sisters $8.25 million after they were unlawfully searched and handcuffed by Alameda County sheriff's deputies at a Castro Valley Starbucks on their way to taking one of the young women to a college test in Berkeley.
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Police departments should not be allowed to investigate themselves, utterly ridiculous.
Most asinine thing ever.
Right! However the action to take is file an Internal Affairs complaint which is an independent body that oversees police conduct where they interview the cops involved in a deposition videotaped interview to get their story on record, which then stays in their employment file for up to 5 Years and it can effect pay raises or promotions. This incident is the very reason why there needs to be NATIONAL POLICE REFORM!
The FBI really should investigate this as a civil rights offense.
@@archangelvvvinternal affairs did investigate and said the officers did nothing wrong. Ridiculous
What's more shameful is it came out of the city's budget, not the oink oinks 🐽 pocket🙄
When the cops has to pay out of their pockets that's when shit will change
The female cop does have to pay to both girls.
Good
The male also has to pay 2mill
@chris lauricella either you’re trolling or you are oblivious to reality it’s literally happening everyday. This county just took 47 cops of duty simultaneously for scoring to low on the psyche test. Just search cop auditors on CZcams.
@chris lauricella I wasn't cry about it, but glad cops has to pay for their miss deeds.
All settlements for police misconduct need to be paid out from the police retirement fund. Why should the taxpayers fund police abuse of the public????
Better yet why should African Americans fund their own oppression,?
PREACH. never felt that i’ve agreed more with a youtube comment lol
Best comment 👌
100%agree
Much of the public vote for the politicians that allow corruption.
"Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand." Micah 2:1 KJV
I'm a former deputy sheriff and I think that this blatant violation is grounds to have the officer's fired.
Apparently not on alameda county USA
I agree but...they got promoted. Smh...
@@marygalligan6455 Yes and so did the two African American women! They got an $8.2 Million Dollar PROMOTION for the harassment they were caused! LOL! How Hilarious!
I back the blue when they're right. In this case they were blatantly wrong and should be fired and personally sued. This isn't ignorance. They knew that it was illegal to demand ID, detain, and search the car without reasonable cause. Three people sitting in a car outside of Starbucks in the morning is not reasonable suspicion. If the cop saw burglary tools in the car or the women were looking into the windows of other cars, then yes, it's reasonable suspicion. None of that happened.
What about him losing his accreditation? He will just go to the next town and terrify others.
Imagine costing your employer 8.25 million and you get a promotion. McDonald's has stricter employment retention standards. Everyone gets upset when people say "defund the police" but are perfectly okay with the police defunding the city and taxpayers.
Facts 💯
@@boofert.washington2499 In PA it takes 1200 hours of instruction to be a barber. In PA it takes 760hours of instruction to be a cop. Go figure.
@@boofert.washington2499 You don't need a college degree to become🤡 a cop either.
Show me multiple examples of people being "okay" with defunding taxpayers.......I'll wait for your non-reply.
@@boofert.washington2499 it takes atleast 6-8 years of school to save a life. 6-8 months take one
The promotion of the officers really got to me... Not only were they not held accountable for what they did, but got a reward??? This is America.
Police has always been their own mob. Community property taxes pay for. People need to start suing the policeman's bond to get rid of them. Or petition to the mayor.
They're not officers, they're SS soldiers of the American Gestapo
That tells you right there that's acceptable behavior and here's a promotion to keep doing what you're doing to black folk.
Blue Klux Klan
I hope both have a really bad day
The sheriff needs to be fired and it needs to come out their pockets not the people
Anymore I think it needs to come out of the pockets of the people because we keep electing incompetent politicians who won't do anything to fix the problem. The sheriff, in many cases, being one of those elected politicians.
@@rsweartruth
And the officers who were promoted by the way
It's up to a new policy to be made that separates Internal Affairs from the Police Department. When it comes to issues like this IAD will always have the departments back. Law enforcement cant be disciplined by the people who have the best interest of the law enforcement department as a priority. IAD should be an entity totally separate from law enforcement. 💯
@@rswear in California we don't get a chance to elect politicians
The simple fact that, despite losing the case, the top brass of that law enforcement agency claims the deputies "did nothing wrong", is a clear indicator of how deep the issues of racism, discrimination and bias are entrenched in that department. To boot, the deputies were also promoted, following the incident, is unconscionable.
This department is a joke. They spent a year backing up the deputy who falsely accused the president of the Toronto Raptors of punching him right after the team won the NBA finals, despite the fact that the body cam footage showed that he was clearly lying.
Very true.
End qualified immunity for cops, judges, prosecutors, and presidents.
Vote blue to stop this 💙💙🇺🇸🇺🇸💙💙
@@kathleenkrug-byle1199 No, Over turn Terry v Ohio.
Are you kidding me??!!!
Promoted? Says it all. This is what is wrong with police . Never held accountable
Right, and people somehow believe that the majority are good. How is that possible when bad cops can silence good cops and are protected and even rewarded?
@@danielthompson3928like a lot of ppl still believe that. Theres too many blind police supporters who get in the way of meaningful change ever happening
@@danielthompson3928 like a lot of ppl still believe that. Theres too many blind police supporters who get in the way of meaningful change ever happening
These cops should be fired and go to jail for harassment and assault
They surely should!!!!
@@TheMostHighDaughter180 absolutely my friend, abso-freaking-lutely
Exactly. Now they feel empowered.
We all know the cops are above the law they took an oath to uphold. The slave patrols of old is what modern day policing sprang from. That should tell us all how racist cops are.
We live in a clown world where they break the law and the citizens they abuse get to pay for their crimes.
I am glad the victims had the courage to refuse the settlement and go to a jury trial.
Yeah I bet they offered like $50 or $100 grand to make it go away.
By the time 100k was offered 4 years later, lawyer's money meter interest % was over 2 million.
@@Resist_JWO_1984 It's not always about the money.
I think if more people had the patience to let things go to jury and then we as tax payers raise hell saying we are not paying for police mistakes, things will change very quickly.
@@motivatorsoftheheart0007 please it's ALWAYS about the money😏Crumb is so mad he didn't take this case😂😂
This money should be deducted from police budget
Nah I like this. It should be published to every tax payer showing what they are paying for. Tax payers need to put pressure on their elected officials to stop this behavior. Otherwise I do not feel bad for them at all.
@@rjgaynor8try this on! I agree 1/4 from police budget, 3/4’s from retirement fund! With the stipulation any local taxes cannot be raised for 3 years! Until fees/fines/penalties (need to be % based) sting there will never be a change in behavior! People should go to traffic court w/previous years tax filing. That’s why I believe in a percentage system. You think police won’t clean house? We will never get people to encourage politicians or voters to change. Look how many are career liars & thieves! President Biden went to Congress in ‘77, when I graduated. He never left! How is working out?
Best Wishes in your political change dream! I had it in early life! 65 now! They’re called the good ole days for a reason!
reduce the award to $20k, yes.
Take their pensions
@@ricodelavega4511🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
The sad part is the family initially thought the police were there to warn them about the car break-ins, making sure they stayed safe while waiting in the parking lot. 🙄. It kind of sends a secondary message that they are not seen as being worthy of safety; only of being suspicious and profiled.
I think the mother knew exactly what was going on. She’s a smart cookie and she “thanked” the officer for the warning to shut down his implied suspicion and contrived reason for his intrusive questioning of her. Unfortunately it didn’t sate his desire to violate this family’s constitutional rights.
the sad part is: there are bad cops, just like there are car thieves.
Right.
They never make sure blacks are safe we are always the suspects as you see in this video .....
Welcome to the world of a black person. I had security surround me years ago and they demanded I leave the building. I WORKED THERE! If I tell you some of my stories...
The best invention for black people over the last 20 years was the cell phone camera. Don't fight back, just make sure someone is recording!
As an ex cop, you should take the penalties from the cops pension and not from the taxpayers. This will continue over and over and over again if something doesn’t happen.
What made you quit being a police officer?
@@quentinjenkins9526 : a lot of the BS I saw, a lot of the BS I was put in, and a lot of the BS with leadership. It ended up being something I no longer wanted to be part of. I left America because I feel like the people that looks like me will be major targets to satisfy the need to kill my race. What that means is the world of law enforcement will go back in time if you know what I mean.
Thank you for your response. And I understand. Evil world we live in bro.
@@quentinjenkins9526 what was the reason? Seem like he deleted the comment and now Im curious😂
Since you are an ex-cop, can you tell us the way to investigate the police unions?
The saddest part of this incident is the “ officers “ who traumatized this mother and her daughter and cost the county 8.25 million dollars are still with the police.
And were promoted! What a horrible police department!
Exactly and doing the same thing to others
That’s how white supremacy works in law enforcement. They get rewarded for bad behavior. No accountability whatsoever.
@@FunnyTown872 DISGUSTING
That 7s a pitiful shame they should have been fired/
Why is it that it cost the city 8.25 million dollars and at the same time, their internal affairs finds that the officers did nothing wrong. If it cost the city several million dollars, something was obviously wrong!
It's a lot easier for the city to pay, rather than to deal with the embarrassment of the police department
It's California. That's why it doesn't surprise me that they even allowed it to get over $1 Million for a payout. Seems like the Jury may have been stacked as well to award that much.
No, it's because juries are terrible. 8 million is f'in ridiculous.
The DOJ investigations need to take place and the citizens need to demand answers as to why those officers were promoted.
doj is part of the blue line gang.
IF anyone wanted to make the cops accountable, charges would have already been filed.
cops are protected by Qualified Immunity and cop unions.
They're not officers, they're SS soldiers of the American Gestapo
@@mikeveis2395 😂😂🤣🤣😁😁😂😂
That's just unacceptable not only are they not fired for what they did they are promoted this is simply incredible!! And the internal affairs investigators should be fired too ,saying they did nothing wrong
US has a major major problem with its law enforcement!!
Internal affairs works "at the pleasure" of the police chief. IA is a joke.
They didn't do anything wrong, this is how the police in America are trained to behave, especially towards black people. And if you call them out you're Woke!
This is what is known as "failing upwards".
of course they were promoted, they did what they were trained to do, profile minorities, and harass them, they did it perfect, so up the ladder they go, its sickening
Those cops violated the family’s constitutional rights and they get rewarded for it? That’s sickening
We as a black people need to start Popping off
They should get rewarded. That's good they did.
The family got rewarded the money…… not the pigs!!!! lol
@@mrshatton6966 both cops have been promoted since then.
@@lashonnmurray2762 Care to elaborate?
That family deserves every penny. Stop profiling people.
Well 8 mil is ridiculous, but it’s stupid af the police were rewarded
@@jesseroberts1041 But you have no problem with the county taking $100 million+ a year from the citizens for simple violations by using the cops as their pimp.
@@hipnoties2802 I’m not. Cops do lots of illegal stuff too, as good of one’s as there can be. But with the interest rates and considering nobody got killed, 8 million is inane to give. (10k alone can get you about 250 annually off interest with 2.5% at least in Canada)
It’s like our politicians not having to pay taxes because UgH BusInEsS ExPenSes. Like no, they should pay their stuff like cops should be seriously dealt with for abusing the honour their badge is supposed to have.
The weirdest part is they absolutely do not match the profile of car thieves. Car thieves are usually young males. This was a middle aged woman and her young daughters. What in the hell were they thinking?
It will get even worse if Trump becomes President.
Thats why internal affairs needs to be run by victims of police brutality, not cops.
With generous funding through lawsuits and supporters that can happen. That's the proper solution and structure. That'll definitely open up so many avenues of transparency. Empathy would play a major role in every determining factor
You just have to have objective people, like me.
NOPE
Excellent Idea!
Oh, I like that idea. Spot on!
If you've never had this much force used against you you can't understand just how traumatic it really is it destroys your feeling of safety and freedom. It's life-changing.
it certainly is! i know from experience.
Yes Exactly Correct
Black Lives Matter ✊🏽
Yes! Add to that the how utterly violating it is to have your belongings tossed in that way, a Black mother and her precious daughters, traumatized for life assaulted abducted held against their will, when they are finally released though far from safe, they have to pick up their ransacked belongings like robbery victims. Absolutely unacceptable! Only these settlements will produce change! Cities can't afford to keep backing cops costing the tax payers millions of dollars!👸🏾👸🏾👸🏾
Yes, anytime a black person has interactions with cops, you never know if you will see another day.
You count on the police to help and protect you not harass and attack you
My husband was stopped while returning a book to the San Lorenzo public library by the Alameda county sheriff's. It was around seven thirty on a sunday morning. They demanded his driver's license even though he was walking carrying a thin book. I guess the sheriff offiers had never seen a real book next to a library. Also in the early 1990's they shot and murdered an elderly man in my neighborhood for not following orders. We moved away from Alameda county to distance ourselves from these thugs.
I used to live there because as a young girl with 3 sisters my parents decided to leave Massachusetts and "go west." I had a friend who's father was the head of Oakland's police department, when he thought she had Cannabis in her room he beat her to an inch of her life. He gathered all her friends and the parents (including me) to their house. My friend's face was one black swollen bloody mess from his beatings.
He didn't find any information about drugs from anyone that day, we were good kids in the last year of high school. Oh how disappointed he was. I was soon a working 18yr old (at the Federal bldg in San Francisco) and left that horror behind me. It still haunts me, POLICE frightened me then, and with daily news of their brutality and incompetence, I see no reason to think of them in a better light. I have never seen anything but brutality, excessive force, and incompetency for many years. There are too many mistakes, there is a "code" they must let go of.
I cannot abide this way of POLICING IN AMERICA. Something must change.
@Yvonne Rahmes I support police
@@FloridaMan69.That's on YOU
@@FloridaMan69.The tide will turn
@@yvonnerahmes9618 What an awful episode from your past. And, as the attorney in this story said, the PTSD persists even after the incident is supposedly put behind the victims.
This was ridiculous! I am so glad the mom and her 2 daughters were compensated well.
They won the ghetto lottery! Bet they still want reparations.
The jury did excellent work.. I’m happy for the mom and her family…🙏♥️
Agreed 🙏
❤
Jury done a good job, but not police department. Who promotes officers, who costs them $8million. It's idiotic.
Too bad it's coming out of the taxpayer's pocket, rather than these thugs' pockets.
@@saundrakatz8418It needs to come from the So-Called Tax Payers Pocket
Because ✊🏽Black Lives Matter✊🏽
When the police don’t even know the law…they should quit their jobs..embarrassing!!
The woman was taking her daughter to a calculus exam. She arrived 40 mins late and got a C taking her straight A average to a B. Imagine what her grade would have been if she was not traumatized.
Cha ching 😅
why she should care about grades? she is a ghetto millionaire
Ehhhhhh id rather have 2 million personally have 8 mill total in the family and fail calculus
@@skie6282 the lawyers prolly got 2 or 3 million.
Zero to 8.25 million is a great lesson.
Im so sorry this happened to your family 😢 I wish you got more $$$ for that!
This incident happened because these cops egos were fracture! And just because this family received a settlement doesn't mean that these officers are going to be held accountable for their actions. They are still on the job and that's a damm shame!😣
Don't forget promoted for it too.
My point exactly!
Yup still on the job that’s police department is 100% full of bad cops
There is no accountability, that's why it's never-ending cycle. DOMESTIC TERRORISTS with BADGES TERRORIZING, TORTURING, MURDERING and destroying people's lives with IMPUNITY!
Yep. Shame on this police department.
How infuriating that the internal investigation found that the officers did nothing wrong and even promoted the officers! Since they aren't having to pay out of their own pockets then they'll just do it again to someone else. 😡🤬😡
I don't get it and I don't get it and I don't get it. Do any of you know how many of your girlfriends and wives and babies and daughters and granddaughters have been raped by their own children and relatives without thought or protection in this world? It's not unusual, it is common. Three out of four. Idiots. Silence is our code. We don't protect our girls and we don't protect our boys. Because we just don't want to acknowledge our own responsibility.
Police fail their way up the ladder.
It because they are all Trumpers. You get points for doing stuff like this to black people.
And it's all on tape. The officer's broke the law and then got rewarded for it. Shame 🙄
Indeed. Shame on the department and the members
The sheriff department's "internal review" concluded the police "did nothing wrong"; yet the legal system and a jury clearly concluded otherwise. It's so hard to have any real faith in law enforcement these days.
A jury also said OJ is innocent.
@@TobyStahler-yp9ll And in that case, detective Forman got on the stand and perjured himself-again and again. So just as in the example you've provided (OJ), the prior points I made still stand: "it's so hard to have any real faith in law enforcement these days". Thanks.
@@TobyStahler-yp9llthe jury said it about Hugh Hefner
POLICE UNIONS HAVE WAY TOO MUCH POLITICAL POWER TOO. THEY'RE A BIG PART OF THE PROBLEM.
These officers are INSANE. It is so clear that the women were harmless.
My thoughts exactly. The mom was so clueless that he was accusing her of breaking into cars that she actually thanked him for telling her that. I wish they would have got more money and those cops lost their jobs.
It just made me sick when they started going through all of that woman and her daughters purses and bags.😥 The worst cop of all of them was the woman. How could you cooperate with treating another woman and her daughters like that? Those girl's will be traumatized for the rest of their lives. All of that money will never make that fear go away.
I hate stupid police officers. These police were definitely racist horrible people and given a promotion for what they did.
@@DL-ep5ukBitch bye! There are no words for you.
Female cops r the most cruel
Chick cops power trip the hardest
Im sure with all that money they will sleep just fine at night.
Omggg they been promoted ?? We have to start a petition this is ridiculous that means everyone under them will do the same with their approval
YES YOU ARE 100% CORRECT!
God forbid if those police were to kill them, then those same officers would all receive purple hearts, and get to bend the points on their badges backwards. Craziness.
@@AyAyronH
What does this mean; bend the points on their badges backwards; what this means;
yea I was like WTFFFF
They've been promoted to corrupt cops.
The attorney nailed it. Great job sir
The attorney is only right because if those women were white the jury would not have awarded them anything for they violations.
Yes!
They think talking proper changes there skin color
Waste of money
@@jordanbarclay4434 that sounds really racist
Every dime of the settlement needs to come from the personal and retirement resources of those deputies and their sheriff and not the tax payers!
I'm so glad they won this. I'm so sorry she and her children had to go through this trauma.
Totally agree, breaks my heart to see especially an older woman (mom) spoken to like this when she has a handicap placard and did nothing unlawful. Glad she won.
this is just the tip of the tip of the iceberg... what about all the other people they torture and/or kill?
@Green Marble They'll be broke in 5 years 😂
@@beansmcdonough1782 you beat me to the post, those were my words exactly lol
@@beansmcdonough1782 damn you a hater
GOOD!!! I’m so glad she won the case. What they did to these women was unforgivable!!!!
Happy ending for the family, unhappy ending for the community.
Unforgivable?? They weren't beat up or anything. They got rich off having their feelings hurt..
@@HelloHello-zf2sv LOL cops are dumb aren’t they
@@HelloHello-zf2sv it’s called violation of constitutional rights.
@@HelloHello-zf2svThanks to your great Police Force 😂 Blame those pigs Lmao
This isn't the time for wondering if the judgment will be reduced, this time is for appreciating that the jury saw this for what it was.
SPOT ON!
I am black, and I insist, I demand to be cuffed immediately
The only problem with that $8 million settlement is that it didn't come from Alameda police retirement/pension funds.
Bump reduction it needs to be Raised
Exactly.
should sue for more.
8.25 million dollars goes a long way to healing those psychological wounds. Hope these ladies stay strong.
I expect half of it will go to the lawyers. Then half of the reamaining half will go to taxes. So they'll get a bit over half a mil each.
They will heal. Through the Atonement of our Savior, Jesus Christ.
@@Dan1ell that’s terrible math they will both get at least 3 million a piece
@@Dan1ell Punitive damage awards are non taxable.
@@150nolimit8 Money awarded from lawsuits are not taxable.
The tax payers of those communities needs to hold their Mayor accountable! He/she is responsible!!!
Castro Valley is UNINCORPORATED, so the county sheriff patrol the streets. Catilytic theft is not uncommon in Castro Valley, but the woman driver did not look or act like she was a nefarious person. The Sheriffs officer could have simply put his bare hand on the hood of the car to determine the heat " soak " from a car that has been operated for hours. No the sheriff was plainly on a fishing expedition because the driver had a luxury automobile and was black. The jury saw the same.
@@kirstenspencer3630 You're absolutely right!
This stuff happens because whites n America don't think black lives matter and I'm not talking about all white people but a lot of em God bless the good white doctors that aren't racist I've met good white doctors a lot
THIS IS RIDICULOUS!!! VIOLENCE TOWARDS BLACK PEOPLE LEADS TO PROMOTION FOR THEM. SICKENING
This goes on nationwide in large and small police departments.
More people need to take action to such unlawful acts. I'm happy they were awarded over $8 million. This was embarrassing, racist, completely wrong. More things like this needs to be brought to light through social media.
I'm PRETTY SURE, the jury quadrupled the pay out, as soon as they heard "We investigated ourselves and did nothing wrong." YOU'RE ON TAPE
Frfr
Absolutely, I’m Literally sick of seeing that.
yes in another video about the same incident they mentionned a new law about racial prejudice was invoked, quadrupling the payout I don t remember the exact details
and they got promoted
How can the IA department at the police station say the cops did nothing wrong?
This was such an obvious breach of their civil rights.
That Chief and everyone else needs to be fired and replaced.
We need to take a close look at the curriculum being taught at all academys across the country.
Because they review cases against policy not laws. That’s why the jury sent a message with an $8mil award
The Federal needs to look over I.A, a founding and I.A. dept need to be investigated.
They received a promotion for following the procedures they were taught. Do not be fooled, they get payed more to harass like it's a congratulation.
They drink out of the same trough.
You really think they teach anything at the police academy?
Cops have to be liable.
Take their money to payoff
Settlements. Touch the pensions,
401ks, bank accounts, liquid assets.
Fire them also
THERE SHOULD BE A NATIONAL REGISTRY FOR ROGUE COPS. THEY GET FIRED FROM A DEPARTMENT BUT FIND A JOB AT ANOTHER CITY/DEPARTMENT
wow they did nothing wrong and were promoted ?????? the chief needs to resign as well as these officers.
I have followed this case for a while now and I am so glad that the municipality will have to make a huge payment. However, there MUST be some serious repercussions for the officers who commit these crimes. That is what they are doing…they are breaking the law!
The taxpayers are paying. They need to start making the cops pay and garnish their pensions
They need to be arrested like ANY thugs.
They are Repeat Offenders.
Here'ss the thing, this is NORMAL in America it's just not mainstream. THIS is how America stays rich, by FALSELY imprisoning people who don't know their RIGHTS!!! 75% Of people in jail right now have never had a trial!!!! In jail for YEARS!!!! America is a disgusting corrupt place !!!!! And most of Americans don't even care !!!!
Every instance of civil rights violation, abuse of power, or excessive force must be met with mandatory jail sentencing.
A favorable final judgement for the plaintiff, in a civil trial should trigger an immediate conviction in a criminal trial.
Law enforcement should be required to attend annual CE that focuses on civil rights, taught by a qualified defense attorney, with a background in constitutional law.
don't fit the description of a car robbers. that was racial profiling.
I'm so very angry and sad that so many civil & human rights violations go unaddressed.
I am a former Bay Area resident, have probably visited that Starbucks, and my outrage at this state-funded violence is beyond words.
Thank you for covering this case, thanks to the jury for making the right decision, and my prayers for all who go through this.
It is truly time to address state-funded and sanctioned violence towards ANYONE who is just living their lives, doing NOTHING wrong.
People need to understand this issue is not just a local problem. It is worldwide.
I now live in Canada and the insanity here is widespread: intense racism, the RCMP getting away with murder and incompetence, gang wars, massive drug (and alcohol) problems, and of course the housing cost and homelessness issues are breaking this country too.
Underfunded disability and health care systems as well, for those who buy the propaganda that universal health care is 'free' up here. It's VAPORWARE - doctors are retiring so fast with no replacements available.
Anyway, I am so glad the jury made a proper decision and I hope these people don't have to fight for the money.
What happened was WRONG!!!
This story still blows my mind. The cop knew from the beginning they weren’t the people breaking in cars.
$1M should be awarded to anyone mistreated by law enforcement.
Great story
We investigated ourself. We have no wrongdoing. Terrifying.
Exactly smfh
Exactly.
What they violated these ladies rights ...wtf ym
Standard operating procedure.
IKR
The Alameda Police Department needs to be seriously investigated and they need the Auditors to go in and deal with them!
The Alameda County Sheriffs Dept has been under federal investigation for years so many mentally ill people have been murdered in their custody inmates denied medicine pregnant women giving birth to stillborn babies and the list goes on
They are corrupt. You see they got promoted after this.
It was the Alameda Sheriff’s department, but still..both agencies should be thoroughly investigated.
It's not the Alameda (City of) Police Department. It's the Alameda *County* Sheriff's Department.
Wow. CZcams is an international forum... and yet I keep seeing story after story on this thread singling out Alameda county cops! And the video wasn't even about Alameda county!
i am so glad they got a settlement but they should never have had to go through this
Exactly!!!
Right‼️
@ Jay Mioff. Yet blacks from everywhere else in the world. Come here and flourish in 1 generation! And don't experience any of the shit AA cry about all day. When you behave like a permanent underclass. You get treated like one.
fucking I work 10hours to pay tax and cops 👮♂️ mess up my fucking tax money
@@jillconner5062 Lets examine Amerikkka history through out the years. Then have a conversation about your bullshit!
Why would you ask if judge can reduce award? These people deserve the 8.25 million awarded.
8 million for getting their feelings hurt...youre an idiot
DID YOU MEAN TO SAY IS $ 8.25 BILLION AWARDED.
It should be more money. Cops are vile stupid people.
He said that because he is obviously racist, it is fox after all
ghetto lottery 🤣
THEY GOT A GREAT LAWYER‼
Lawer?
@@mrdave777 I MEAN LAWYER
@@mrdave777 Troll?
Right! Because cops do this all the time and get away with it.
THEY SURE AS HELL DID
News reporter just had to chime in that their was no excessive force and that the payout was huge. Showed his true feelings.
Another f**k --> The reporter
I mean it’s true though. It’s not like they were beaten? 8 million dollars???? Like come on. Plus that lady was being rude not wanting to show her ID. If she just showed her ID the cops would’ve been on their way
@@SamizzleFrizzly Bro you’re ridiculous😂you weirdo. You sleeping with those officers or something?
@@SamizzleFrizzly No offense but I guess it's ignorance. Listen a person is not obligated to produce identification. She had every right to decline!
@@thabisohitchdladla I know but I’ve realized it’s just better to not be rude and just give the cop your ID so that they can be on their way. Home girl wanted the smoke
The mere fact that their department didn't see that these officers didn't do anything wrong says a lot of how F'ed up the system is 😮
This is beyond disgusting, disgraceful, horrible, and unforgivable, they did this despicable act with glee too!
Same thing happened to me. I was too exhausted and thought I had no chance at justice to pursue the case. They took me to jail for what the police called "giving him a hard time" and falsified reports of "drunk in public and disorderly conduct." Never used a breathalyzer or did a sobriety test. They towed my car and I eventually lost it to the system(auction). I had just bought the car with my hard earned money.
You should of hired a good lawyer and counter sued
@@Arz2003 Should have....I'm just one of thousands of victims who have been taken advantage of by the corrupt police department. At least I did not lose my life
Wow !
@@Arz2003Black people have a very difficult time obtaining an attorney. We need more attorneys willing to fight racism.
welcome to the united 🐖states of amerikkka
The mother and her kids deserve every bit of that award that the courts gave to them.
This Mom is my hero
'Don't worry, we have a lawsuit " truly inspired words.
When did she say that?
Cause that black lady is lazy and she just wants easy money !! Oh sorry as
I was wondering when she said it too!
@@roundtwo3321 have to watch full video
Thank God she live to see the lawsuit.
Our constitutional rights only appear to be a suggestion to them, apparently.
Thank God ! And all who helped this family.. the situation was absolutely horrible.
All deputies involved need to be fired .
Embarrassing for our county and a reminder that law enforcement are not always here to protect and serve. Proud of the woman who were wronged.
The policing of ppl in the 1800’s in America deputized white ppl to arrest runaway slaves and blks! This practice is a part of the fabric of our country, and my ppl have been the brunt of its evil.
I'm sorry for this embarrassing situation and thank God you all are safe.
"They don't want to listen to us so we'll detain them." Sir, what?
Sounds like you've never had a taste of that sweet, sweet power. It's quite addictive.
That’s not law enforcement that’s ego.
@@karinaz8756 beg to differ with you on that.
@@yvonnerahmes9618 If the law was enforced here, none of this would have happened..
Holy shit 8 milli. Should be paid ONLY by the fucking cops/dept.
Good point. 3-7-23.
Now you learned how to get a case? Do exactly what she did,and you'll get your money .
@Johnny Natural
No it isn't.
This should make them stop in their tracks and think twice before violating the rights of innocent people.
Next time it should be double, then triple and so forth... This would hopefully stop this sort of behavior.
@Johnny Natural What happened to them was a bit excessive and uncalled for.
@Johnny Natural to arrest a mother and her two kids , nah it’s perfect 👍🏾
The police get worse every day.I had a cop tailgating me recently so I pulled over one block from my house and screamed at him. WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU! He drove away! I went straight to the police station to complain and was basically laughed at.I’m currently collecting door bell footage and consulting my attorney.I’m not the type to do this but I’ve had enough
Something like this happened to me one morning leaving my apartment in El Cerrito,Ca🤦🏽♂️I live in what you can call a nice area there's hardly anything going on here but one morning this cop drives by makes eye contact with me and turns around. He then proceeds to drive slow behind me so I stopped and yelled "wtf are you following me for I live here??" he immediately sped off. I seriously think they get a kick out of messing with people and it just so happened that I caught him before he decided to snatch me from behind.
You need a sports car
Lose em
Happened to me too and when I tried to file a complaint the cops at the front desk said they couldn't help me. They literally said; WE CAN'T HELP YOU WITH THAT.!
So that's where my 8 million dollars Went!!!😤😤😤
American law enforcement is absolutely insane.
Only in policing does an employee get to keep their job and get a promotion & raise for costing their company millions of dollars! Sickening!
Not mention a paid vacation (administrative leave).
As a yt woman,mother am so happy for this family ❤️ They did nothing wrong and they deserve that money ✅
Don't be so quick to jump for joy, that $8.2mil can be reduced by the Judge. So, the Deputies have been promoted and the amount of $$ may NOT end up being anywhere near as much. We'll see.
@@johnstubbs3401it most likely won’t be lowered cuz they sued the city. It normally gets lowered when suing a private company
@@mermaid30019 I hope they get every penny. I just wish it was coming out of those cops pocket. They're never held accountable, what's stopping them from doing the same sh*t again?...NOTHING.
MOVIN ON UP TO THE EAST SIDE. FINALLY GOT A PIECE OF THE PIE.
You’re a CZcams woman? Not sure what else you meant. I just hope it’s not a racial reconstruction of a word
And the fact they get promoted....rewarded for bad behavior is discusting. The lawyer should have negociated punishment for those cops. They got away with horrible behavior.
This is outrageous. I'm happy for their victory.
I don't see why, the 8.5M comes out of the tax payer's money, also, the officer got promoted to sargent. This changed nothing...
@@alanurbina7057 at the very least I'm sure it changed this woman's zip code.
@@fel9118 😂😂😂Yes probably so
EVERYONE who gets unfairly/illegally abused by law enforcement agents needs to take action to hold both the officers, the city, and the county, accountable. Unfortunately its often extremely difficult to find an attorney willing to represent clients in any suit filed against regional government entities - especially with regard to clients who can't afford upfront payment, and therefore need to find an attorney to represent them based on a contingency agreement. Hopefully the increasing number of plaintiff victories, combined with high dollar awards, will help change this. I am very grateful to the woman in this video for having the courage, the strength, and the will, to stand up for herself - and to take the fight all the way to victory. That could not have been an easy thing to accomplish.
Hell yeah....I'm going to the department of Justice tomorrow....I'm gonna go to the court house pick up my paperwork and then I'm heading straight to the commanders in chief "The department of JUSTICE" in which I discovered upon further research whenever any governments officials act as if they are above the law by not honoring any of a person's constitutional rights you document everything and then you go to the DOJ and they pick it up, bring news coverage and everything....I'm going therr 2morrow"
@@restrainingorder7301 Remember the Judge can (and may even by law be required to) lower the payout amount regardless of what the jury said. Can be expensive to file a case against even local govts. And not sure if filing a complaint with DOJ would create more than a "don't do this type reprimand from the fed DOJ. That's really not much incentive for local govts to change their ways. However, since no one was actually killed here, I also would think that the federal judge will substantially lower the amount.
NOTE: Breona Taylor's family received $12M and she is DEAD. So $8M with no permanent physical injuries seems a bit excessive. I'm not saying the the officers (and their training supervisors) shouldn't be penalized. In fact, somehow this needs to be tied to their performance reports. Crazy that the news reporter said some of them are being PROMOTED.
ALSO: I know someone who was unfairly harassed by the police due to color. Like the lawyer said: on a mental / psychological level it messes with the person for life. When past police abuse victim is pulled over for something relatively mundane (eg - speeding ticket) it can become scary for them and even dangerous. Again read about Breona Taylor and her reactions - which were misinterpreted by the arresting officer and thus led to him worsening / escalating what should have been a non-violent ticket type situation.
@Jake McClendon Thanks for posting this. I didn't read it fully till after I posted to @Restraining Order. If you read what I posted it tends to reinforce what I was saying: being harassed tends to create PTSD type issues.
New research links earlier deaths / higher infant mortality deaths with African-American women as related to such repeated societal stresses / "micro-agressions".
By sharing your experience your helping solve the problem by creating awareness.
At the same time, be careful. First unless you have physical injuries most juries still don't believe they have enough evidence (or jury instruction laws) to find in favor of a plaintiff. Second, I've seen such cases FAIL. No one talks about or posts about these and the losses the victims / attorneys suffer.
Also, if you look on youtube you can ALSO find white males wrongly shot dead by police. Only 1/3rd of police seem drawn to the profession "to serve" society. 1/3rd seem drawn "for the power" (and we know that power corrupts). And 1/3rd want to stay neutral ("see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil" and/or not be drawn into police abuse issues) and just go home and then retire on a pension. Probably like many of your co-workers at almost any job. What's cool is that I've seen more and more officers (of all colors) try to hold their fellow officers accountable. If you look up the stats, you'll be AMAZED. There are many officers who now turn in other officers (and unfortunately are at SERIOUS RISK of losing their jobs for doing this... Google it!).
Regardless of color, if the family has little or no MONEY or luck finding a lawyer they may eventually still LOSE (remember these news stories do NOT sensationalize the boring APPEAL BATTLE that can cost MORE than the trial!). If the government appeals that may cost a LOT of money / time that neither the "trial attorney" or the family has. So possibly this will be negotiated to even less than $1M settlement. Then deduct lawyers fees, costs, etc.
If you really want a chance to stop police brutality, INVEST. Train and join the police force yourself.
Or challenge you and some friends to each buy at least 2 car cameras and leave them running in your cars. Also, set up a protocol where you text someone your location if police pull you over. Have a buddy system where your friends will try to drop everything and film what's happening.
Depending on where you live and how uneducated the police are, no matter what color you are, you may catch some good footage. Hopefully you (or your family) can put it use to bring justice, and help improve police professionalism.
@@tubsun The judge better lower this amount. She is 100% in the right to get award damages for this case, but people are are beat and tasered are lucky to see a few hundred thousand. Look at the deaf guy who just got beat and tasered because he couldn't hear them (he's deaf). I bet he will be lucky to see a million dollars, and that is much worse than having handcuffs placed on you. Look at the guy who was arrested for driving a stolen car that was a hertz rental and spent 6 months in jail awaiting trail, lost his car, his house, his job, everything. Bet that guy won't even see 1 million dollars. She deserves 100k per victim, so 300k total in my opinion from looking at other cases.
Officers need to carry their own liability insurance
So glad they were awarded in their favor!!👍🏾
$8.25 million for illegal search and being handcuffed seems a bit excessive. I just saw a video where a kid accidentally shot by negligent cops only got $1.9 million. No wonder so many people are out trolling for negative interactions with cops. Not that she was, but many do. Trolling for lawsuits
This is why we need private insurance for Police. These officers would now be UNHIRABLE anywhere in the US.
No private insurance company in there right mind would insure ANY law enforcement agency in this country! They would be bankrupt in a week.
NOPE, they'll throw away their prior employment and start again in another county
@@charlesmisiak4926 They would be covering individuals and dropping the high-risk ones.
@@thaimassage23 Insurance companies are nation-wide. They wouldn't be able to move to the next county anymore.
@@balkibartokomous7290 That makes sense but in that line of work a cop can become "high-risk" in a heartbeat. I don't own an insurance company, nor am I an agent, but if I were I wouldn't want the liability. No, I think if you start going after the individuals and holding them personally responsible, (i.e. their savings, homes, jobs and pensions) we would see a drastic reduction in this type of behavior. If they personally have to feel the financial heat, they will stop, IMO.
The arresting police officers should be fired, sued and go to jail
When there has been no moving violation, or no crime witnessed or alleged, NO ONE is required to show ID! Know your rights ⚖️
When a cop asks for I.D. YOU DO WHAT THE COP SAYS A-HOLES !
@@DL-ep5uk Totally and I would have too anyone with a brain would have!! This reject rebellion has got to go, period !
You say that now but when you have done nothing for them to warrant you to show your ID, you would be questioning why as well. It’s always the person who is not in the predicament at the time saying I would have just complied. He was not stopping them. They were already stopped, parked and minding their business.
@@Rebel-Unit the only rebels in this video are the cops breaking the Oath they swore. Anyone with a brain cell would want to hold these tyrants accountable for their actions. How is it a problem for this woman to assert her God given rights, but OK for the cops to violate those rights when they literally swore to protect them?
@@DL-ep5uk Let police take away your guns. No big deal.
Obviously the current system doesn't work.
There needs to be a national police force throughout the US, with proper training and recruitment standards and an independant oversight
How do they do an investigation and and say they did nothing wrong? We all know you cannot demand ID like that when no crime has been committed?!?!? Wtf?
it’s a disgrace and horrifying that they did that to a family just going about their day. and appalling that neither the state nor its attorneys have anything to say about it… and have done nothing to punish the officers who racially harassed and punished that family. 😢
The Police are the Government. It is time to take the Blame Up to the Lawmakers. The Private-Sector Voters must wake up. "ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL" Vote Local Elections. Always!!!
No Accountability They got promoted After That happened
Bigger problems in that shit hole state than this!! & they worried about this Let California burn along with all the jurors
I know right, at least if it was some young "hood" looking Black boys then it wouldn't matter, right?
@@almandoaveria6541 What matters is that you let everyone know how ignorant you are. Thank you. Look everyone, when someone shows you who they are, believe them! No signs of intelligence from Almando here, carry on.
I'm so sorry you all had to go through that!! I will Never understand why? These Cops have to be this way?? Congratulations to you for your win for what they did to you! God Bless 🙏
They won 8.2 million dollars.They did not get shot. It is a win. Good for them.
Until the money comes from police pensions, this won't stop.
Those Cops Should Be FIRED, and Arrested!
Oml 😮 I’m an African American mid-aged mom and I’ve waited for mobile orders right out side this Starbucks myself…my girl’s dentist is pretty much next door and it’s an easy option while waiting during a.m. appt. I have NO idea what I would have done if accused of breaking into cars and then arrested while minding my business?! Insane
you mean you're an American mid-aged mom?
@@timg2973 black American/African American... get over it
Those cops did not just see an American they seen the color of her skin.
@@NAT-turners-Revenge so am i a Spaniard/American? but never stepped foot there..
@@NAT-turners-Revenge Don't Feed the YT trash.
Btw-I served this country and the military treats captured “enemy combatants” with far more respect than American police treat American citizens.It’s so ridiculous and dangerous and egregious that my own family that are active duty servicemen and service women are more afraid of the cops here in the states than they are of any enemy combatant.And we’re all marines.Semper fidelis to the constitution
What's even sadder is that some of these cops who trample on the rights of others have also served in the military. It's like they never gave a sh*t about their oath to begin with.
Truth😢
You only say that because you have a guilty conscience. In reality you know that many if not most ‘enemy combatants’ under yours and your fellow marines carry were not treated similarly rather much, much worse. Scapegoating and virtue signaling on message boards will never wash the blood away from your own hands. Piously point and peck your fingers away on your keyboard, what you did and could’ve prevented will always follow you
Stop pointing your blood soaked fingers and try looking in the mirror. You may have lost your humanity but you can still maintain some honor
@@Deliveredthebomb You're letting your imagination get the better of you. Yes, there will always be bad apples in any profession. However, it is absolutely true in general what Eothee is saying. The reason being is that service members are held to a higher standard and have a lot to lose. It can bring an end to their career, it can limit promotion, reduction in rank/pay and you can end up in the brig. That goes for the individual and those in their chain of command. It's called accountability.
@@eltoroloco1936 not true. Far more police are held accountable, lose their job and are even jailed for life for making much smaller, less consequential mistake then your average army grunt or marine. Take the most infamous abuses from each, George Floyd’s death where the officer went to jail for life then you compare it to those who took part in the My Lai massacre in Vietnam where not a single murderer did time
Do I need to provide more example? Stop virtue signaling and putting yourselves on pedestals as you will all end up in hell should we judge all souls evenly. I would even venture to guess that yours will be an even deeper, hotter tier of penance and suffering
No amount moral grandstanding or finger pointing will save you. God doesn’t give points for trying
This woman had driven from out of state for hours with her daughters in order to take the oldest to a college entry exam. The daughter missed the exam. This reminds me of the group of Black women and children arrested and made to lie on the ground in Aurora Colorado by the police.... no crime committed... just because...
I am glad the mother and her daughters walked away with their lives. Sometimes hitting an organization in its pocket is the only way to get their attention. Kudos to the federal jury who awarded this family 8.25 million! There is monetary cost associated with bigotry and racial profiling.
Unfortunately the individual deputies nor their department will foot that bill. Just the taxpayers.
😂
Except…we have to pay for it.
I must have missed the part where it stated they were detained for being black..
@@bellaluv1070 50 secs, 1:12_ zeroed in...
The cops were never charged and actually got promoted, despite violating federal laws and costing taxpayers millions.
End qualified immunity and support legislation that makes it mandatory to fire and/or charge police for committing crimes.
That's how to get promoted? They'll be the CHIEF in 2 years?
The money does not come from the police department or the officers who did this it comes out of the taxpayers pockets! It's ridiculous that this kind of thing keeps happening because we're just funding the atrocious Behavior by the police and paying them to do it!!
I was once falsely detained and held at gunpoint. I knew something was strange when they gave me a waiver to sign after release. Guess I missed out on my $8 million.
Yup next time fight
@@Harlem1mentality Yes a whole lot of black folks missed out but 25-30 years ago no cameras and your word against police . My son would be a multi-millionaire today with all the times he was stopped and dragged out of the car and taken in because he looked like the suspect..In most cases it was just driving while a young black man and my dad was NYPD and I had his PBA card and had to run out of my work or home if he was coming for me and stop them from just writing him a ticket for something they made up
We've all been abused by the police. IMO, this award amount is grossly unjustified. People are beat up and tasered in their own homes for doing nothing, and are lucky to get 100k. The idea of 8 million for the inconvenience of hand cuffs and the back of a police car is insane. Maybe 1 million at best, I think more like 300k. She wasn't beat or tackled or tasered or anything. And legally, the cop could ask for her id because she parked in a handicap spot. Read the paperwork at the dmv you signed to get that plaque. It clearly states cops may ask for you to prove it's yours if your using it, which involves IDing the person. She deserves money, no doubt t was racial profiling, but this amount is insane imo. A lot more people are going to try to bait the cops with awards like this to try to get their own lawsuit settlements.
@@joannstephens793 indeed.... it was corrupt and wild 80s, 90s especially
That’s why EVERYONE needs to know their rights. Cops prey on ignorance.
That is so wrong. They do us like this all the time. I'm being stalked everywhere I go as well. I know how it feels it's overwhelming.
So happy the family received what they deserved in this case. It’s absolutely appalling that cops believe they can act this way.
Millions for getting searched?
GTFOH 🤡
We're paying. You know this, right?
f the cops are getting the backing for doing wrong, they will continue to do it, if they start selling their property to pay people then maybe, it will deter some, but if the taxpayers are going to foot the bill and the officers are promoted
@@GoLakers3900 Yes, as we should. Until Cops get held accountable and the culture changes.
When gun-happy people without college degrees in criminal justice are hired to police, this is the result of their lack of knowledge of one's constitutional rights.
Can’t even sit in the car. So ridiculous.
And until each department, retirement funds and unions of these cops.start paying they have no reason to stop violating the rights of the people. This makes them the worst threat to any community.
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Um drugs and crime are the worst threat let's not get carried away because you are emotional. Unless you don't think drugs and crime destroys communities.
And they think it's hurting us alone, it'll come back on them!!!! SMDH
bring back stop and frisk! Crime is out of control by the black race. That's not being racist those are the facts. Police cant even do their job anymore cause some welfare recipent feels labeled see how that works. no your the racist no your the racist
@@tchlin if drugs are destroying your community - teach your kids not to drugs. Problem solved. Can’t sell drugs if there wasn’t a market. Personal responsibility goes a long way.