Overview
- Video from the May 20 campus detention shows Officer Bianca Camacho grabbing 16-year-old Maurice Williams by his hair, pinning him to the ground, and striking his head multiple times while other officers restrained him.
- Williams’s family filed a formal claim with Bay Area civil rights attorneys on June 1 that alleges excessive force, civil-rights violations, and seeks discipline, possible firing, and criminal accountability as a step toward a lawsuit.
- Fairfield Police placed Camacho on administrative reassignment and asked an outside agency to investigate the incident while the school district is conducting a separate review and the police chief issued a public apology.
- The family’s attorneys say Williams suffered a concussion, headaches, dizzy spells, and emotional trauma and has not returned to school since the arrest, describing lasting impacts on his daily life and safety concerns.
- Advocates point to a July 2025 video that appears to show the same officer pulling a woman from a car by her hair, a clip that supporters say suggests a pattern and has intensified calls for officer decertification and policy changes for school resource officers.