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Black Mom Beaten Unconscious by White California Deputies: ‘I Think She’s Out’

Loaded on Aug. 25, 2021

Filed under: Excessive Force (Police), Racial Profiling, Traffic stop. Location: California.

A California mother who stopped her car to trade-off driving duty with her father on a family road trip was beaten unconscious and arrested by a pair of Solano County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) deputies, who later lied about it to paramedics and on their official reports, according to a …

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