The family of a 16-year-old Fairfield High School student is calling for an investigation after a viral video showed the teen being struck repeatedly by a police officer following a fight at the school.

In a press conference Friday, the family of Maurice Williams said he suffered from headaches and “dizzy spells” since the incident on Tuesday.

In the video, Fairfield Police Officer Bianca Camacho appears to strike Williams’ head at least seven times while he is pinned to the ground and held by his dreadlocks.

A press release issued by Fairfield police on Thursday referred to the blows as “distraction strikes” made by the officer after she was “unable to overcome his resistance.”

Bystander footage showed Williams being restrained by Officer James Lewis when Camacho seizes the student and throws him to the ground, punching him while shouting, “Give me your ******* hands!”

Body-worn camera footage shows the arrest of two students following a large fight at Fairfield High School in Fairfield on Wednesday, May 20, 2026. The Fairfield Police Department said they recovered sharp objects, including a screwdriver, from backpacks confiscated during the incident. (Fairfield Police Department via Bay City News)

The press conference called at the school included Berry Accius, founder of Sacramento organization Voice of the Youth. Williams’ mother, Rhamesha Stevenson, stepmother, Sequoia Williams, and father, Will Williams Jr.

Accius and supporters called for an investigation into Fairfield Police Department and into Officer Camacho.

Lewis was at the school filling in for Fairfield High School’s regular resource officer, Andrew Decker, who is on paternity leave. Lewis called on Fairfield police for backup, which included Camacho.

Fairfield High School students bring signs and photos to protest outside the school in Fairfield on Friday, May 22, 2026. (Griffin Jones/Bay City News)

If Decker had been working, the fight wouldn’t have escalated, said Will Bible, a campus monitor who assists Decker in breaking up fights at the school.

Usually, when a fight breaks out, Bible said, Decker “would grab one, I would grab one and we’d separate them.” Bible said he had never seen additional police called to intervene.

I just wonder what would happen if nobody was filming. Will Bible, campus monitor at Fairfield High School

Bible said he was working at the school Tuesday when a verbal dispute broke out between Williams and another boy. “It wasn’t a fight — that’s what’s puzzling me,” Bible said.

“I just wonder what would happen if nobody was filming,” he said.

Before the press conference, about 25 students and supporters protested in front of the school, chanting: “Expose the lies at Fairfield High,” and “No justice, no peace” for almost three hours.