From [HERE] and [HERE] A Black woman who filed a civil rights lawsuit after she was beaten by Jasper police officers has won a $75,000 settlement according to her attorney. Defendants (all are white) in the case include Jasper Mayor Mike Lout, Captain Gerald Hall, former dispatcher Lindsey Davenport, former officer Ricky Grissom, former officer Ryan Cunningham and the City of Jasper. 

Keyarika Diggles was arrested May 5 for an allegedly unpaid $150 traffic ticket. Her attorney, Cade Bernsen, said she was brutalized by former Jasper Police Officers while dispatcher Davenport watched without intervening.

"Ms. Diggles was dragged like an animal (by her hair) into a darkened "detox" cell, even though she was not intoxicated, and left battered and bruised on the floor for hours without medical attention. To add further insult to injury, she was then stripped naked and illegally searched," says a statement issued by the Bernsen Law Firm.

The incident was captured on surveillance video which was used as evidence in the case. According to Bernson on May 5, at approximately 8:30 a.m., police officers woke Diggles up by banging on the door of her home, stating they had a warrant for her arrest. 

Bernsen told Yahoo News that, once at the jail, Diggles was trying to arrange to pay the fine with her mother over the phone when Grissom abruptly ended the call. Footage shows the two arguing as Cunningham comes up behind Diggles and attempts to place her in handcuffs. The video shows the officers twisting Diggles' arms, grabbing her by her hair and shoving her head against a desk. She is then forced to the floor and dragged into a jail cell -all while her hands were tightly bound with handcuffs.  [MORE]

'Then while handcuffed spent the duration of her time in the isolated cell with an injured scalp where her hair was ripped from her head, a brace [orthodontic] lodged into her upper lip, a tooth dangling by its root and handcuffs ripping into her wrists,' said Diggles’ lawyer, Cade Bernsen. The above video is from two camera angles, no sound.