A federal jury recently found Alameda County liable and awarded a Black mother and her two daughters a historic $8.25 million. The jurors determined on March 1 that Sheriffs Steven
Alameda County offered a Black family who was handcuffed in the back of a sheriff's patrol car for more than an hour at a Castro Valley Starbucks $700,000 to settle a suit alleging their constitutional rights had been violated. In the end, they won more than $8 million.
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.