A longtime Carson activist, whose head-smack of a political opponent was captured on video and spread worldwide on YouTube, reached a settlement Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court in Compton to avoid criminal prosecution and the possibility of a six-month jail sentence.
The 43-second video clip of last year's Carson City Council meeting shows Vera Robles DeWitt giving then-Public Works Commissioner Jan Schaefer a swat on the back of her head with a handful of papers after she passed the commissioner in the aisle of the council chamber. After a brief pause, Schaefer screams and tumbles from her seat to the floor.
