Picture Illustration by The Each day Beast/Harris County Detention Heart
A police officer operating to be Houston’s subsequent mayor is dealing with felony expenses after allegedly utilizing her department-issued baton and taser to assault her boyfriend, authorities mentioned.
Missouri Metropolis Police Officer Robin Williams, 32, was arrested on Tuesday for assault—steady household violence in reference to two incidents involving her boyfriend, Germaine Taylor, over the past six months, in accordance with a Harris County felony grievance. The Missouri Metropolis Police Division mentioned in a press release that Williams, who's now on paid administrative depart, was taken into custody on the police division “on account of a felony investigation performed by the Harris County Precinct 7 Constable’s Workplace.”
Williams, who launched her longshot bid for mayor final 12 months below the slogan “Again the blue however not the bullies in blue,” posted $15,000 bond after being held at Harris County Detention Heart. It was unclear if she had been launched round noon Wednesday. Neither she nor her marketing campaign instantly responded to a request for remark, and it was unclear if she had an legal professional. Julia Williams, the officer’s marketing campaign supervisor, instructed the Houston Chronicle a press release could be issued quickly.
Authorities say Williams assaulted Taylor utilizing her police baton in August—and once more 4 months later. The grievance additionally says Taylor took a video of the Aug. 4 incident, the place Williams might be seen in her Missouri Metropolis Police Division T-shirt yelling and hitting him a number of occasions with the baton. Taylor instructed police that someday in August, Williams additionally shot him along with her Taser.
“Bitch you broke my telephone and you already know that I’m a police officer,” Williams allegedly instructed Taylor within the Aug. 4 video, in accordance with the grievance. “Bitch I’ll kill you hoe.”
The allegations in opposition to Williams are disturbing on their very own, however are particularly exceptional given her mayoral candidacy is centered round combating crime and repairing police and group relations. In response to her marketing campaign web site, Williams served in the USA Marine Corps for 4 years earlier than becoming a member of the American Purple Cross Worldwide Social Providers Division in 2018.
Ultimately, she joined the Missouri Metropolis Police Division. Final February, Williams introduced her mayoral bid—touchdown her amongst not less than eight candidates hoping to interchange Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner within the November 2023 election. Although she has not beforehand been elected to public workplace, her web site says she hopes to “lead our metropolis in the fitting path.”
“As a Police Officer, I've seen the nice and unhealthy of our metropolis. I wish to suppress crime and be certain that the residents of Houston are protected,” Williams says on her web site. “I really stand by my marketing campaign slogan ‘Again the blue however not bullies in blue.’ There isn't a place for a bully in society and I plan on implementing that. Our Officers do a tremendous job and I wish to promote the nice deeds of fine Officers.”
The allegations from the Harris County Precinct 7 Constable’s Workplace recommend she could also be a part of the issue she has pledged to appropriate.
The grievance says an officer was known as to Williams’ home on New 12 months’s Eve on stories of a “home violence case.” On the home, Taylor alleged that Williams “assaulted him along with her police baton” after the pair bought right into a combat. Through the altercation, Taylor mentioned that Williams “punched him within the mouth, inflicting a scratch on his lip, and inflicting him to bleed from the mouth.”
Officers mentioned that on the scene, Taylor additionally described an Aug. 4 incident, the place he alleged that Williams used her baton on him a number of occasions—inflicting Taylor to undergo “knots on his physique from the place [Williams] struck him.” The grievance states that within the video Taylor later supplied of the incident, Williams is seen hitting Taylor in his physique and legs.
When making the grievance final month, Taylor additionally claimed that Williams “has used her department-issued Taser on him,” indicating that Williams “went into their bed room, grabbed her taser, and shot him with it.”