Bodycam Video Shows 5-foot-2 Black Woman Violently Arrested By Several Florida Deputies Inside Her Home After She Asked One Not to Park on Her Property

Posted byBy Matt Bruce | Published on: December 28, 2020

A Jacksonville, Florida, woman was arrested in May during an encounter with local deputies. She has for months claimed she was wrongfully charged with battering two officers and resisting arrest.

In fact, Brittany Chrishawn Williams says it was she who was manhandled by deputies. She asked a deputy parked in her driveway to leave and he took umbrage.

Brittany Chrishawn Williams, a 30-year-old Black film producer and musician, publicly released bodycam video from her May 13 arrest this month. She and her attorneys believe the video proves her brutality claims. They are petitioning prosecutors to drop the criminal charges she faces. Williams, meanwhile, is mounting a campaign to pressure the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office to fire the deputies involved in her arrest.

“We do not understand why the State Attorney’s Office filed criminal charges against [Brittany], and we do not understand why they waited over five months to file such charges,” the woman’s South Florida attorney, Jeff Chukwuma, wrote in a Dec. 22 media statement. “However, what we know for certain, is that the actions and conduct of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office on May 13, 2020 were unlawful, unjustified, and completely unacceptable…”

The incident occurred May 13 outside Williams’ Jacksonville home. She told Atlanta Black Star she and her husband had just returned home from a workout. She was preparing to take a bubble bath when her husband notice a squad car sitting in their driveway.

[Brittany Chrishawn] finally received the bodycam video Dec. 11. She said there was hours worth of footage. She edited it into 14 minutes worth of splices that she uploaded to her YouTube channel Dec. 16.

Ironically, Williams co-wrote, produced and appeared in “Illville,” a 2019 dramatic satire that explored the psychology behind police brutality.

A month later, Williams says she fell prey to some of the officer violence depicted in the film. Her Change.org petition had received nearly 75,000 signatures by Dec. 28.

Chukwuma noted that Williams had no criminal record prior to the May 13 incident, and she’s a college graduate who has two honors degrees from the University of Central Florida.

“We are hopeful that after we meet with the State Attorney’s Office to review the evidence in this case, they will do what justice demands, and drop all charges against Ms. Williams,” Chukwuma said.

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