It's odd when you first hear about a case that makes your blood boil only four years after it happens. In this case, I'm glad that I heard about it because the family involved was not physically injured, and was awarded more than $8 million in compensation for being racially profiled and detained for existing while Black. They searched the car's trunk, too.
But still, the story of the Loggervale family, which happened in September 2019, took until March 2023 to come to some kind of justice. And Alameda County, California, tried to buy them off with a $700,000 settlement and their silence instead.
They didn't take it.
The two sheriff's deputies involved have not been disciplined for their actions and in fact have since been promoted, despite not only profiling the mom and her daughters, but lying in their report about the incident, as far as I can tell.
How many other times a month, a week, a day does something like this happen in this country?
The only thing that makes this case unusual is that someone took it all the way to trial and a sheriff's department is getting the headline it deserves.
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