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 br