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Video: Inmate helps Okla. CO under attack

Robert Charles Hammock was waiting to be released when he saw Tashka Robert Frank Maret attack a CO

By C1 Staff

STILLWATER, Okla. — Surveillance footage has been released of an inmate helping a corrections officer under attack at Payne County Jail.

According to an affidavit, CO Matthew Hudson opened Tashka Robert Frank Maret’s cell to let him use the bathroom. He exited and attacked Hudson. Then, Robert Charles Hammock, who was seated on the bench in intake and waiting to be released from custody, came to Hudson’s aide and assisted the officer in wrestling Maret to the ground.