Marlene Pinnock

A woman punched repeatedly by a California Highway Patrol officer on the side of a freeway in an incident caught on video will receive $1.5 million under a settlement, and the officer has agreed to resign.

A woman seen in a video being pummelled by a California Highway Patrol officer alongside a Los Angeles freeway filed a civil rights lawsuit on Thursday.

A woman punched repeatedly by a California Highway Patrol officer on the side of a freeway in an incident caught on video will receive $1.5 million under a settlement, and the officer has agreed to resign.

A woman seen in a video being pummelled by a California Highway Patrol officer alongside a Los Angeles freeway filed a civil rights lawsuit on Thursday.