Hampton cop charged with assaulting his mother



HAMPTON — Jessica A. Reynolds, a Hampton cop has been charged with assaulting her mother in an altercation during a car ride late last month. . Reynolds, 26,  faces a misdemeanor count of assault and battery in the June 23 incident, according to court documents.  Ramsey told police that just before 6 p.m. that Sunday, she was driving in a car with her daughter in the area of Semple Farm Road and Middle Road when a verbal altercation took place."During this verbal altercation, (Ramsey) advises that her daughter threw a container of cupcakes at her and began to hit and kick her," according to a Hampton police detective's statement, based on the mother's complaint.
Ramsey told police she had to "hold her daughter by her throat to restrain her," according to the affidavit by Det. Danielle Hodges. The mother, Hodges wrote, had "visible injuries to her face, mouth, arm and thumb."