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Maya Yang

California jury awards more than $8m to Black family detained at Starbucks

Aasylei Loggervale and her two daughters were on their way to Berkeley City College from Las Vegas.
Aasylei Loggervale and her two daughters were on their way to Berkeley City College from Las Vegas. Photograph: Matt Rourke/AP

A California jury awarded a Black mother and her two daughters more than $8m after they were unreasonably detained by police during a stop for coffee.

In September 2019, after a long drive from the family’s home in Las Vegas, Nevada, Aasylei Loggervale and her two daughters stopped at a Starbucks in Castro Valley, California. They were on a nine-hour journey to drop the older daughter at Berkeley City College, for a statistics exam.

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