Two Women Charged in Attack on Wisconsin State Senator

Two women were arrested and accused of beating a state senator who had been recording video of protesters last month during a night of intensifying violence in Madison, Wis., the authorities said.

The senator, Tim Carpenter, a Democrat who represents areas in Milwaukee, said on June 24 that he was punched and kicked in the head after he took a cellphone video of protesters who had been marching through downtown Madison for several hours to protest police violence and racism.

He was treated in the hospital for injuries to his head, neck and ribs.

On Monday, after the Madison Police Department released surveillance images of two women it described as persons of interest, the police said the women, Samantha R. Hamer, 26, and Kerida E. O’Reilly, 33, turned themselves in.

Both women face charges of battery and robbery, the police said. They were being held on those charges in a Dane County jail, inmate records showed on Wednesday. It was not immediately clear whether they had lawyers.