Prosecutors offer no jail time to two accused in attack on state senator
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Samantha Hamer, left, and Kerida E. O'Reilly, right.
MADISON (WKOW) -- The two people charged with the beating of a state senator have been offered a deal by prosecutors that would include no jail time and deferred prosecution.
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Samantha Hamer and Kerida O'Reilly are each charged with felony substantial battery as a party to a crime for the attack on Sen. Tim Carpenter (D-Milwaukee) during a night of protest and vandalism on the Capitol Square last June.
Hamer and O'Reilly were protesting racial inequities in policing when video from Carpenter's camera appears to capture them charging him to try to stop him from taking video or photographs. A criminal complaint states Carpenter told investigators a man punched him, but he did not know who threw additional blows and kicked him after he fell to the ground. Carpenter's nose was broken and he had other injuries.