A Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office deputy was captured on video hitting a 17-year-old girl as she lay on the ground during an arrest.
The incident occurred on Oct. 22 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The video shows Envy Hampton being hit at least three times by an MCSO deputy during an arrest at the Milwaukee County Zoo.
According to her mother, Tamika Dowell, Envy and her friends were seated in a locked car, and she heard the deputies smash the window to open the vehicle’s door.
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According to the Envy’s friend who recorded the video, Keyonna Love, the girls had gotten into a verbal argument between themselves after being asked to leave the zoo after it closed, and the police were called. The teenagers had been brought to the zoo by Envy’s 25-year-old sister, Nayah Monique Dowell-Willis, who later returned to pick them up with her two children, ages 1 and 3, in the back seat. The teens got into her vehicle and refused to get out as the deputies instructed.
Dowell told the Wisconsin Examiner that she heard glass breaking after her daughter called her to say she was about to be arrested.
“How I initially got the call is because my daughter, I want to say maybe five seconds before they busted out her car window,’ said Dowell. “She called me and said, ‘Mom, they’re going to take me to jail.’ And I said, ‘Who?’ And she said, ‘I’m about to go to jail.’”
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Dowell also told WISN 12 News that she wants the charges against her daughter dropped and the deputy who hit her to be terminated. According to Dowell, her daughter was also hit prior to Love beginning to record. Love also said Envy was struck before she began recording.
“She was already on the ground, in her bra, in cuffs, and there was no reason for that guy to hit her in the back of the head that many times. She had no weapons or anything,” said Dowell. “I want her to be released, and I want the…
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