Surveillance video from Saline County shows a confrontation between an inmate and a jailer. The video shows Deputy Ulenzen King confronting Michelle Thompson. Then King grabs her, throws her down on the table, then down on the floor.
You can see in the video King pins Thompson while several other jailers gather around. The entire time Thompson says she was telling King she is pregnant.
The video cost Saline County Sheriff's office jailer Ulenzen King his job. A fight between an inmate and King caused the fight. It all started over a tongue ring.
Deputies arrested the woman on the video, Michelle Thompson. Reports say during an argument with her boyfriend, she stabbed him in the arm with a knife.
"We don't condone aggressive behavior," says Lieutenant Scott Courtney.
That is why the fight led to King's firing. And, at least according to Michelle Thompson, her black eye.
Deputies say a tongue ring caused the fight. The report shows King wanted Thompson, already in a holding cell, to remove her's. She says she slapped his hand away and he attacked her despite her claims that she is pregnant.
King told investigators Thompson hit him in the face and also called him a racial slur.
"In a split second he made a decision that basically is going to define his career at the saline county sheriff's office. Which basically ended it," says Lt. Courtney.
Deputies say that Thompson was booked into Saline Memorial Hospital after the incident. They say they can't tell us whether or not she was actually pregnant, but they did say this, "where a female is pregnant, if she is hit-on or struck or anything similar to what we had here. In situations like that felony charges are normally forthcoming."
In this incident though that's not the case. Attempts to reach King and Thompson for comment through the sheriff's office were unsuccessful. So was looking for any of Thompson's family at her home.
Deputies say Ulenzen King was released under his own recognizance and given a November fourth court date. They say Michelle Thompson is still in jail.
