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.
"I think that everybody recognizes we all have implicit bias," their attorney, Craig Peters of San Francisco, said in an interview on Monday. "I have it. You have it. We've all got it. These officers are no different. And so, subconsciously, there was something going on that made them unreasonably suspicious of this family. I think that if this same scenario happened and these were white women, it would have played out very differently.
Neither the Alameda County Sheriff's Office nor Kevin Gilbert, the attorney representing the county, responded for comment on Monday. Then the deputies questioned the mother about whether she was legally able to park in a disabled spot, despite her having a visible placard in her car window. Under the 4th Amendment, citizens have the right to be free from unreasonable searches, which includes being asked for ID if an officer can't articulate that a person has committed a crime.
"What am I being detained for?" the elder Loggervale asked. "I'm informed I can't go to the restroom."Mother and daughters repeatedly ask what they are being detained for. They never receive an answer. "I do not," Deputy Keith Leeper said. During the trial, the attorney representing the county "doubled down" on how the deputies were right.
Both Holland and Pope have since been promoted. Holland is a field training officer and Pope is a sergeant.
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