Video shows Fairfield cop punching teen student multiple times at high school

A shocking video shows a police officer striking a teenager several times as she tried to arrest him at Fairfield High School in the Bay Area, as concerns about her past were revealed.

The officer, who was not named, apparently struck 16-year-old Maurice Williams several times as she attempted to arrest him after a school fight last week.

Fairfield police described the strikes as “distraction strikes” that occurred before the student was restrained. Williams’ family members disagree, saying he was “beaten like a dog.”

“No parent or family member should see their loved ones treated this way,” his stepmother said at a news conference last week.

Body camera video shows an officer detaining one student and escorting him to the school office before another student began filming a video of him and then running away.

He resists the officer’s attempts to arrest him before the officer is shown handcuffing the second student.

The second student, Williams, appears to turn toward the officer before being pushed to the ground. The body camera shows the second officer, the female, screaming at the student and hitting him several times.

“Give me your queenly hands,” she shouted. Williams is then handcuffed, as several onlookers watch.

Police said the two students were arrested on charges of “causing a disturbance on the school campus and resisting arrest.” Police said that sharp tools were found in the backpacks confiscated during the fighting.

During the body camera video, Williams can also be seen fighting a school official, according to Fairfield police.

Another person, Mia Hamilton, said she was involved in an altercation during a traffic stop with the officer when Hamilton was 18 years old. A video shows her being escorted out of her car by her shirt and hair by the same officer who allegedly beat Williams.

A police report showed that Hamilton was stopped for speeding and failure to obey emergency lights.

“The same thing that happened to that poor boy, happened to me,” Hamilton said ABC 7 said.

“She should never have continued to work as a police officer. They call you guys peace officers to bring peace, not to sit there and create chaos and cause more problems than they already have,” Hamilton added.

Community advocates blamed the police for escalating the situation.

“This is a pattern of aggression, this is a pattern of excessive force, and this is a pattern that the Fairfield Police Department allows to happen in this community,” said Perry Accius, a community advocate for Voice of Youth.

The Fairfield Police Department says the officer has been administratively reassigned.

“The officer has been administratively reassigned to the department as we go through this emotional and difficult time,” the Fairfield Police Chief said last Friday.

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