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

Police in Castro Valley said they were investigating car break-ins when woman and two daughters were handcuffed in parking lot

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.