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CHP officer in altercation on freeway shoulder

Marlene Pinnock, right, with her attorney Caree Harper as they address the media after the CHP announced a $1.5 million settlement in the civil rights lawsuit.

Marlene Pinnock, right, with her attorney Caree Harper as they address the media after the CHP announced a $1.5 million settlement in the civil rights lawsuit.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

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Video taken by a passing motorist shows CHP officer punching woman on side of 10 Freeway in Los Angeles.

Marlene Pinnock, Caree Harper

Marlene Pinnock, left, with her attorney, Caree Harper, during an August interview in Los Angeles.

  (John Hopper / Associated Press)

Maisha Allums

Maisha Allums, daughter of Marlene Pinnock, left, becomes emotional as attorney Caree Harper, right, talks about how Marlene was repeatedly punched by a CHP officer recently at a press conference in the Crenshaw District in Los Angeles on July 10.   (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Lawyer speaks

Maisha Allums, daughter of Marlene Pinnock, sixth from right, wipes a tear from her eye as attorney Caree Harper, third from right, talks about how Marlene was repeatedly punched by a CHP officer recently at a press conference in the Crenshaw District in Los Angeles on July 10.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Robert Pinnock

Robert Pinnock, center, husband of Marlene Pinnock, listens as attorney Caree Harper talk about how Marlene was repeatedly punched by a CHP officer recently at a press conference in the Crenshaw District in Los Angeles on July 10.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

CHP meeting

Activist Earl Ofari Hutchinson, left, and California Highway Patrol Commissioner Joseph A. Farrow, right, hold a news conference together after discussing issues involved in the beating of a woman on a Los Angeles freeway that was recorded on video.  (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

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