The household of 16-year-old highschool pupil Maurice Williams filed a authorized declare in opposition to the Solano County metropolis after a viral video confirmed an officer repeatedly putting him within the head.
An individual walks previous the doorway to the Fairfield Police Division on June 1, 2026, in Fairfield. Williams was arrested amidst a bodily altercation involving a number of college students on Might 20, based on Fairfield Police. (Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)
“That is an officer who ought to be terminated,” Ben Nisenbaum, one other of the attorneys representing Williams, stated on the agency’s Oakland headquarters. “If there’s a felony investigation, it ought to be into her and that she ought to be charged.”
Williams was arrested amidst a bodily altercation involving a number of college students on Might 20, based on Fairfield Police. Williams’ attorneys stated he had been in a verbal argument with one other pupil, and that it “by no means escalated right into a bodily altercation.”
In video footage captured by Williams’ stepmother, Camacho tells Williams’ household that he was arrested for resisting and injuring a workers member on the faculty.
She tells the household: “I punched him within the face. Sure, I did.”
“I used the required pressure to beat his resistance to have an effect on my arrest,” Camacho continued.
Fairfield Police launched body-worn digicam footage final month that reveals Williams evading officers’ makes an attempt to restrain him, at one level working right into a crowd of different college students in an out of doors hallway of the highschool.
Williams was restrained by a college useful resource officer, James Lewis, earlier than Camacho approached.
In video footage, she seems to throw the boy to the bottom earlier than punching him repeatedly within the aspect of the pinnacle, pulling his hair and handcuffing him.
“Give me your f— arms,” she yells a number of occasions.
The Fairfield Police Division stated the hits had been “distraction strikes.”
“You may name a punch a distraction strike. I suppose you’ll be able to name a gunshot hearth a warning shot, however this distraction strike struck [Williams] within the head,” Nisenbaum stated. “This use of pressure is the sort of factor that causes individuals to lose religion within the police that they see round them, and that may be a injury particularly to the individual on whom it’s inflicted, a younger man who doesn’t have a felony historical past.”
Williams, who’s a soccer participant, stated because the incident, he’s been fearful about being acknowledged or harassed by police.
“I’m barely even in a position to go outdoors the home now,” he stated on the press convention on Monday.
He has not been again to highschool, his household stated.
“There’s a variety of concern about his psychological well being. There’s a variety of concern about his progress. There’s a variety of concern about his future,” Williams’ uncle, Rhamell Stevenson, stated.
Williams’ attorneys stated he sustained a concussion and had been affected by complications and dizzy spells because the incident.
Final week, a video displaying Camacho pulling a teen from a automotive in July 2025 compounded extreme pressure allegations in opposition to the officer.
Within the video, posted by Bay Metropolis Information, Myah Hamilton, then 18, is dragged from the automobile by her hair after a visitors cease.
“Please don’t rip me out. Are you able to cease, please?” Hamilton stated within the video, filmed by somebody sitting within the passenger seat.
She was charged with reckless driving and resisting arrest. It’s not clear why Hamilton was requested to get out of her automobile, or what number of occasions Camacho requested her to get out of the automobile previous to utilizing pressure.
Fairfield Police stated that Camacho was administratively reassigned following the Might 20 incident. The division declined to touch upon Monday.
Ilana Israel Samuels, Fairfield-Suisun Unified Faculty District’s government director of communications, stated the district doesn’t touch upon energetic authorized issues, however “acknowledges the considerations and feelings being shared concerning the latest arrest of a pupil” on campus.
Williams’ household stated they hope the officer is fired and faces felony fees.
“I hope that in any case, that officer is gone, fired, but additionally that it prompts a dialog, a restorative dialog between Fairfield Faculty District, the police division and the group to aim to revive some kind of cohesion, as a result of our children deserve that,” Stevenson stated.
KQED’s Sara Hossaini contributed to this report.
