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Settlement comes after federal judge finds former Salisbury police officer used excessive force in 2019 traffic stop.

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Watch. however, the police side of this is she was speeding, she didn't heed the sirens, she didn't heed the blue heights and oftentimes, when officers see that kind of reaction, they think that they are up to something, that there's something nefarious going on, that there is something potentially dangerous going on. and so, you saw this heightened response from them. but stephanie bottom says once they discovered who she was, and what -- didn't ever ask her what she was doing. she just felt like she got yanked out of the car. she didn't understand. she was confused. she says the treatment of...

I'm a traveler, always have been. i love to get in my car and go. >> you're that grandma. >> yes. >> the one nobody can keep up with. stephanie bottom of atlanta is a 69-year-old librarian, mother of two, grandmother of five, and lover of road trips. in may of 2019 she took to the open road. driving north on i-85 from georgia to north carolina for a funeral. she was driving solo with just her music to keep her company. >> it was either santana or prince. >> this is good driving music, isn't it? what point did you even notice there were police trailing you?

On very different footing when they get on the road in terms of the risks that they face. >> holmes cocounsel in the bottom case gave us a look at north carolina traffic stop data. we looked at the data reported by the police in salsbury north carolina where stephanie bottom was stopped, white population, nearly 50%, black population, dl 35%, the rest a mix of native american, asian and others, the traffic stops reflect the make-up of the population, roughly even, but when you zero in on what happens after the traffic stop -- >> we get down to searches we see there's a pretty significant jump ...